5 Best philosophy books like Value (What is Political Economy?) by Frederick Harry Pitts

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Value (What is Political Economy?)

By: Frederick Harry Pitts

3.86

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we u…

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1. Batman: The Killing Joke

By: Tim Sale , Alan Moore , Brian Bolland

4.37

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. … read more

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"How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?"

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice."

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?"

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

-Tim Sale, Batman: The Killing Joke

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2. 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
"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

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3. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more

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"Master, I go hunting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

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4. 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
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5. Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth

By: Alan Moore , John Totleben , Rick Veitch , Alfredo Alcalá

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Returned from his sojourn to hell, Swamp Thing discovers that his girlfriend Abby is being persecut… read more

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"If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop. It turns …"

-Alan Moore, Swamp Thing, Vol. 5: Earth to Earth

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6. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America

By: Michael B. Katz

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • economics
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7. Swamp Thing, Vol. 4: A Murder of Crows

By: Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette , Stan Woch , Ron Randall , Rick Veitch , Alfredo Alcalá

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

This fourth volume in the saga of the Swamp Thing finds the man-monster interacting with Deadman, t… read more

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8. Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death

By: Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette , Shawn McManus

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

What Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and John Totleben accomplished during their time on the comic bo… read more

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9. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

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10. 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

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11. The Long Twentieth Century

By: Giovanni Arrighi

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics

12. Swamp Thing, Vol. 3: The Curse

By: Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

After meeting the Swamp Thing, the Hellblazer sends the man-monster on a voyage of discovery that t… read more

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13. Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more

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14. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more

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15. The Razor's Edge

By: W. Somerset Maugham

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Intimate acquaintances but less than friends, they meet and part in postwar London and Paris: Ellio… read more

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16. Value (What is Political Economy?)

By: Frederick Harry Pitts

3.86

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

'Value' seems like an elusive and abstract concept. Nonetheless, notions of value underpin how we u… read more

Similar categories in Frederick Harry Pitts's Value (What is Political Economy?) book and Frederick Harry Pitts's Value (What is Political Economy?)

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics

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Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America

Michael B. Katz

4.53

Transform Your Habits

The Long Twentieth Century

Giovanni Arrighi

3.65

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Plague

Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

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