The World of Thought in Ancient China
By: Benjamin I. Schwartz
3.97
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese th…
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1. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
By: Sheldon S. Wolin
4.41
Format: 792 pages, Paperback
This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. S… read more
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2. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
By: Mark Edward Lewis
3.82
Format: None pages,
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3. The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
By: Stanley Hoffmann , Hedley Bull
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The Anarchical Society" is one of the masterworks of political science and the classic text on the… read more
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4. Computing: A Concise History
By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the I… read more
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5. Philosophy and Real Politics
By: Raymond Geuss
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ide… read more
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6. The Old Regime and the French Revolution
By: Stuart Gilbert , Alexis de Tocqueville , None , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution -- the so-called "Ancien Regime" -- a… read more
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7. What Is Populism?
By: Jan-Werner Müller
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo ChAvez--populists are on the rise across the g… read more
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8. The Sciences of the Artificial
By: Herbert A. Simon
4.12
Format: None pages,
Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new ed… read more
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9. On China
By: Henry Kissinger
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to… read more
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10. On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present
By: Alan Ryan
3.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On P… read more
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11. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
12. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
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. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
By: Judea Pearl
3.95
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more
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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
15. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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16. 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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17. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
By: Stephen Budiansky
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical sys… read more
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18. The World of Thought in Ancient China
By: Benjamin I. Schwartz
3.97
Format: 490 pages, Paperback
The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese th… read more
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19. Brief Lives of Idiots
By: Ermanno Cavazzoni
3.30
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
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20. Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return
By: Paul Robichaud
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From ancient myth to contemporary art and literature, a beguiling look at the many incarnations of … read more
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21. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development
By: Yuhua Wang
4.30
Format: 352 pages, None
How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese state China was the world's leading superpower f… read more
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