An Economic Theory of Democracy
By: Anthony Downs
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- philosophy
- politics
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. A Preface to Democratic Theory
By: Robert A. Dahl
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Robert Dahl’s Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in pol… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- political science
3. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
By: Christopher H. Achen , Larry M. Bartels
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
"Democracy for Realists" assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking abo… read more
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- philosophy
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- nonfiction
- political science
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5. The Pattern of the Chinese Past
By: Mark Elvin
3.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, th… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
7. Congress: The Electoral Connection
By: David R. Mayhew
4.40
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
In this second edition to a book that has now achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues tha… read more
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8. The Complete Persepolis
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris
4.16
Format: 331 pages,
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- nonfiction
9. The Problems of Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
4.50
Format: 87 pages,
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer re… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
10. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups
By: Mancur Olson
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across discipl… read more
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- social science
- politics
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- nonfiction
- political science
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11. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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- politics
- social science
- nonfiction
- political science
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
13. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book… read more
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14. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
15. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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16. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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- philosophy
- political science
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- school
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.17
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more
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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
18. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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19. Nada
By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet
3.83
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more
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- school
"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"-Edith Grossman, Nada
"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."-Edith Grossman, Nada
"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."-Edith Grossman, Nada
20. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
21. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
22. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more
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23. The Principles of Representative Government
By: None
4.18
Format: 578 pages, Paperback
Bernard Manin's challenging book defines the key features of modern democratic institutions. For us… read more
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24. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
25. 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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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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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
26. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
By: Michael Wolff
3.44
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more
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- nonfiction
27. An Economic Theory of Democracy
By: Anthony Downs
3.98
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligib… read more
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- academic
- philosophy
- grad school
- nonfiction
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28. Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
By: Hélène Landemore
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, N… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
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- political science
29. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
By: Timur Kuran
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one… read more
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30. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
By: Susan L. Shirk
4.11
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more
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- nonfiction
31. Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
By: Hélène Landemore
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collectiv… read more
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