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By: David Runciman
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and Ais
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartCountless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but so
- Author: Runciman, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1631496948
- Language: English
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By: Noam Chomsky
How the World Works
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really work from the man The New York Times called “arg… [more below]
- Series: Real Story (Soft Skull Press)
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1593764278
- Language: English
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By: Josh Hawley
Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartNationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that the character of men and the male virtue that goes along with it… [more below]
- Author: Hawley, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 168451357X
- Language: English
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By: James C. Scott
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cart“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”–John Gray, New York Times Book Review
“A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explana- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246757
- Language: English
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By: James Burnham
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
$14.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘The stoic, detached, empirical, hard-boiled, penetrating, realist mind of James Burnham is something to behold, to admire, to emulate’ – National Review
A class
- Author: Burnham, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: December 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1839013958
- Language: English
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By: Neil Howe
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
$32.50HardcoverAdd to cartThe visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unre… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1982173734
- Language: English
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By: Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power
$40.00HardcoverAdd to cart- Author: Greene, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0670881465
- Language: English
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By: Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals and Society
$26.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly infl
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465025226
- Language: English
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By: Elinor Ostrom
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but … [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Ostrom, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569788
- Language: English
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By: Graham Allison
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
$25.99PaperbackAdd to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between … [more below]
- Author: Allison, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1328915387
- Language: English
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Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto
$24.95HardcoverAdd to cartA searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel”
In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overv- Author: Adler-Bolton, Beatrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 183976516X
- Language: English
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The Prince
$6.95Mass Market PaperboundAdd to cartHere is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a … [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0553212788
- Language: English
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By: Thomas Paine
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
$11.95PaperbackAdd to cartThomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution–and his Rights of Man (1791-2), the most famous defense of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Paine, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 019953800X
- Language: English
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By: Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West
First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful n
- Author: Fanon, Frantz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0802158633
- Language: English
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By: Timothy Snyder
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.
“A brilliant analysis of our time.”–Karl Ov- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 0525574476
- Language: English















