History & Theory - General
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Who is the King in America? And Who are the Counselors to the King?: An Overview of 6,000 Years of History & Why America is Unique
$25.00 Add to cartWHO IS THE KING IN AMERICA?
Before you answer, do you know what the most common form of government in world history? From the invention of writing around 3,300 BC, the world has mostly been ruled by k
- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649121
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman
Penguin presents a series- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #03
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121979
- Language: English
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others
$11.00 Add to cartThis concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world’s leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of I… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Blaisdell, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0486424650
- Language: English
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
$24.99 Read more“Offers uncommonly penetrating insight….A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.–New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword.
The Secret Team, L. Fletcher P- Author: Prouty, L. Fletcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082844
- Language: English
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How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders
$19.95 Add to cartTimeless political wisdom from ancient history’s greatest statesman
Marcus Cicero, Rome’s greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic’s highest office at a time when his beloved c- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156573
- Language: English
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3
$23.00 Add to cartThe third volume of a political treatise that changed the world
Unfinished at the time of Marx’s death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Capit- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0140445706
- Language: English
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Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
$32.99 Read moreOriginalism Is Not Enough
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that “originalism” alone is an inadequate answe- Author: Arkes, Hadley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1684513014
- Language: English
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Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThroughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegiance to geo-political states or international communitie
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Grosby, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 03, 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840983
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of China After Mao, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.
No dictator can rule- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1639730680
- Language: English
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On Revolution
$18.00 Add to cartA unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hann- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039903
- Language: English
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
$23.95 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to the wide-ranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bibl
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847032
- Language: English
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Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do about It
$19.95 Add to cartA trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite–and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize Capital i- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292583
- Language: English
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Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
$19.95 Add to cartCovid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take in
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1642592633
- Language: English
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Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
$16.00 Add to cartA contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil serv- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447601
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
$23.00 Add to cartThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535620
- Language: English
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Ti- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533229
- Language: English
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The Ordeal of Change
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 6, 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435100
- Language: English
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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless t- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105868
- Language: English
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher’s final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016.
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture- Author: Fisher, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 191346248X
- Language: English
