History & Theory
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Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us
$18.99 Add to cartAuthor and award-winning journalist Jim Marrs investigates extraterrestrial presence among us in his fascinating new book, Alien Agenda.
Marrs uncovers compelling new evidence regarding extraterrestria
- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: March 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0060955368
- Language: English
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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country’s nation… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Critchlow, Donald T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2015
- ISBN10: 0199340056
- Language: English
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The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Add to cartLearn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593844122
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$7.99 Read moreBy Alexis de Tocqueville. From America’s call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America–, first published in 1835, –enlightens, entertains, and endures as a bri… [more below]
- Author: McGraw Hill
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: April 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0553214640
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination
$14.95 Add to cartA horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.
What does it m- Author: Greenaway, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914420888
- Language: English
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Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics: 1776-1963
$19.99 Add to cartWhat they didn’t teach you in school about Benjamin Franklin, The Freeemasons, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the Spanish American War, Prohibition, and more.
In this updated paperback edition, there i- Author: Jeffries, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1510769102
- Language: English
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The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
$19.95 Read moreEnding the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality
In the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George Floyd nearly every major consumer brand had proclai- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Johnson, Cedric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766301
- Language: English
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
$16.95 Read moreDrawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy–as well as the author’s own experience of life on three continents–Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a p… [more below]
- Series: Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback) #0
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332933X
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
$20.00 Read moreThis incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that… [more below]
- Author: Williams, William Appleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334740
- Language: English
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The Laws
$18.00 Read moreIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449841
- Language: English
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”
Martin L
–Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 674237838
- Language: English
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The Prince
$10.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds
$18.95 Read more- Author: Semprun, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546175
- Language: English
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Camp David
$24.99 Read moreOriginally named Shangri-La by Franklin D. Roosevelt, today’s Camp David was a well-guarded secret until its existence was revealed after World War II. A US Naval facility set on a mountaintop, Camp D… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Savitt, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467160873
- Language: English
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The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read moreUsing the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation
The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, pra- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768312
- Language: English
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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony
$29.95 Read moreThinking beyond pandemic capitalism
The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of- Author: Lapavitsas, Costas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767847
- Language: English
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The Great Lie: Classic and Recent Appraisals of Ideology and Totalitarianism
$40.00 Read moreThe Most Insightful and Profound Reflections on Tyranny.
Totalitarianism was the dominant phenomenon of the twentieth century. Deeply troubling questions endure regarding the nature of such tyrannical- Series: Religion and Contemporary Culture
- Author: Taylor, F. Flagg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 698
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1935191365
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$30.00 Read moreA distinguished religious leader’s stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.
With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1541675312
- Language: English
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Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past
$29.95 Read moreHow statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars
The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology- Author: Bevan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1839761873
- Language: English
