A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism
By: Ilan Wurman
4.11
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
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1. Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
By: Antonin Scalia , Bryan A. Garner , Frank H. Easterbrook
4.29
Format: 567 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important princi… read more
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"It is in no way remarkable, and in no way a vindication of textual evolutionism, that taking power from the people and placing it instead with a judicial aristocracy can produce some creditable resul…"-Antonin Scalia, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
2. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
By: Henry Hazlitt
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more
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3. 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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4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
5. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
By: Thomas Sowell
3.49
Format: 16 pages, Hardcover
This is the revised and enlarged edition of a new kind of introduction to economics for the general… read more
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6. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
By: Milton Friedman , Rose D. Friedman
3.88
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government … read more
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7. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
By: Antonin Scalia , Amy Gutmann
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
In exploring the neglected art of statutory interpretation, Antonin Scalia urges that judges resist… read more
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8. The Quest for Cosmic Justice
By: Thomas Sowell
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important t… read more
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9. Ender's Shadow (Ender's Shadow, #1)
By: Orson Scott Card
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child be… read more
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10. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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11. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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12. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
By: Laura Kaplan
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
15. 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
16. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
17. One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
By: William P. Barr
4.01
Format: 591 pages, Kindle Edition
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The former attorney general provides a candid account of his… read more
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18. This Is Happiness
By: Niall Williams
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
About This Is Happiness The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author… read more
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"Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything."-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being's eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They're not like anything else, or anyone else's, and may be the most perfect proo…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"When you've been raised inside a religion, it's not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There's a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch …"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your hea…"-Niall Williams, This Is Happiness
19. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
By: Joan Biskupic
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more
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20. Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism
By: Erwin Chemerinsky
4.42
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional inter… read more
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21. Stealing
By: Margaret Verble
4.04
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more
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22. The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
By: Stephen Breyer
3.82
Format: 101 pages, Hardcover
A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained an… read more
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23. The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America
By: Michael Waldman
4.30
Format: 400 pages, ebook
An incisive analysis of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decad… read more
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24. Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
By: John Higgs
4.15
Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition
A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the B… read more
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"His voice was proof that no matter how lost you may be you are never alone because there are people like John Lennon who could reach you."-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"In the midst of communal screaming there is only the present moment. The past and the future dissolve the way, nothing more than illusions. When the past disappears it takes with it the possibility o…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"When Bond was born he personified an aspect of male identity that was prevalent after the war that of the protector. Man saw their role as being the one to protect their families from external threat…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
"An important factor here is that Bond does not see himself as a victim. This feels like it should be an increasingly important aspect of the character given the extent which society consistently urge…"-John Higgs, Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
25. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
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26. A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism
By: Ilan Wurman
4.11
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison i… read more
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27. The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
By: Corey Robin
4.02
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice eve… read more
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28. The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him
By: Amul Thapar
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail … read more
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29. How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
By: Jamal Greene
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It i… read more
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"Strong rights protection is far from harmless. The proliferation of strong rights can frustrate the democratic will and erode the solidarity of communities. Judicial dominion over constitutional righ…"-Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart
30. Originalism as Faith
By: Eric J Segall
4.21
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Originalism as Faith presents a comprehensive history of the originalism debates. It shows how the … read more
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31. Cosmic Constitutional Theory: Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance
By: J. Harvie Wilkinson III
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have inc… read more
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