Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By: Samuel Moyn
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
By: Garry Wills
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In a masterly work, Garry Wills shows how Lincoln reached back to the Declaration of Independence t… read more
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3. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
By: Corey Robin
4.27
Format: 637 pages, Hardcover
Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the… read more
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- history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- political science
4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
By: Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dialectic of Enlightenmentis undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School o… read more
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- philosophy
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6. Experience and Education
By: John Dewey
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Experience and Educationis the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, th… read more
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7. The Cold War: A World History
By: Odd Arne Westad
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
From a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact … read more
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8. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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9. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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10. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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11. Introducing Lacan
By: Richard Appignanesi , Judy Groves , Darian Leader
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This series is renowned for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, prec… read more
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12. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
13. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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- biography
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
14. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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- politics
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
15. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
16. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
By: Brendan Ballou
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
18. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
19. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- history
- biography
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
20. The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
By: John Gray
3.54
Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we un… read more
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21. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right
By: Matthew Rose
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial mo… read more
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- history
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- political science
22. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
By: Adam Shatz
4.24
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory biography of the writer-activist who inspired today’s movements for social and racial … read more
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- biography
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
23. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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24. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
25. Considerations on Western Marxism
By: Perry Anderson
4.01
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in West… read more
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- nonfiction
- political science
26. Left Is Not Woke
By: Susan Neiman
3.61
Format: None pages, ebook
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more
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"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
27. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By: Samuel Moyn
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- political science
28. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- nonfiction
29. America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
By: Jacob Heilbrunn
3.83
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
A leading observer of the right explains the long, disturbing history behind Donald Trump’s admirat… read more
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- history
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30. After Utopia: The Decline of Politcal Faith
By: Judith N. Shklar
4.13
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A critical and creative analysis of the decline of political philosophy in an attempt to understand… read more
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- politics
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31. The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity
By: Matthew McManus
4.54
Format: 304 pages, ebook
McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching … read more
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