The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
By: Ross Douthat
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have seen it coming. And it shouldn’t surprise anyone if decadence ends with people looking heavenward: toward God, toward the stars, or both."-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have seen it coming. And it shouldn’t surprise anyone if decadence ends with people looking heavenward: toward God, toward the stars, or both."-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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1. Civilization: The West and the Rest
By: Niall Ferguson
3.86
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon … read more
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"We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
2. Terror and Liberalism
By: Paul Berman
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
One of our most brilliant public intellectuals, Paul Berman has spent his career writing on revolut… read more
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3. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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4. Against the Odds: An Autobiography
By: James Dyson
3.32
Format: None pages, Paperback
The maverick inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner recounts how he succeeded against the odds to b… read more
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5. Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People
By: Thomas Frank
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-beare… read more
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6. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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7. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
By: John Keegan
3.73
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more
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8. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
By: Christopher Chabris , Daniel Simons
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Reading this book will make you lesssure of yourself--and that's a good thing. In The Invisible Gor… read more
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9. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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10. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
By: Edward L. Glaeser
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's g… read more
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11. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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12. The War on the West
By: Douglas Murray
4.28
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more
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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"-Douglas Murray, The War on the West
13. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
14. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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15. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
16. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
17. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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18. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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19. Feminism Against Progress
By: Mary Harrington
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more
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"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress
20. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
By: Christopher F. Rufo
4.30
Format: 352 pages, ebook
For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more
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"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
21. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
22. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
23. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
By: Hamilton Wright Helmer
4.29
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you … read more
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24. The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
By: Jonathan Tepper
4.13
Format: 320 pages, ebook
The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplac… read more
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25. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
By: Randolph M. Nesse
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to… read more
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"Like fever and pain, anxiety and low mood are useful normal responses to some situations."-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
"Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness."-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
"The body is not shaped for maximum health or longevity; it is shaped for maximum transmission of its genes."-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
"Eating disorders are not caused by abnormal genes; they are caused by normal genes interacting with abnormal environments."-Randolph M. Nesse, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
26. Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
By: Jonah Goldberg
4.05
Format: None pages, Audio CD
With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, two-time… read more
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"Humanity has been taking off like a rocket since the 1700s, but we have not achieved a stable orbit in the heavens. And even if we did, no orbit is stable in the long run. Eventually gravity claims w…"-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
"Yes, of course enormous profits were made from both slavery and empire, but neither "created" capitalism... if capitalism is dependent on the sort of mass-scale exploitation implicit in slavery and i…"-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
"Anyone who has relied on church or family during a personal storm understands how rooted institutions provide us not only physical shelter but, even more important, emotional, psychological, or spiri…"-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
"The Constitution is a paper manifestation of a deeper cultural commitment to liberty and limited government, in the same way a marriage certificate is a physical and legalistic representation of some…"-Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy
27. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
By: Ross Douthat
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele… read more
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"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have …"-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
28. Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It
By: Cass R. Sunstein
3.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times –bestselling author of Nudge reveals h ow we became so burdened by red tape and … read more
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29. Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
By: David K. Randall
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His p… read more
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30. Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
By: Chris Arnade
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addi… read more
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31. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
By: Megan Basham
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more
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