The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
By: Brooks Adams
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
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1. You Gentiles
By: Maurice Samuel
3.69
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Written in 1924, this shocking classic work of Jewish Supremacism maps out what the avowedly Zionis… read more
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2. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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4. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
5. 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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6. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
7. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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8. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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9. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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10. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By: Liaquat Ahamed
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late … read more
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11. The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival
By: John Bagot Glubb
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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12. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
By: Daniel Bell
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society con… read more
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13. The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
By: Oswald Spengler
3.76
Format: None pages,
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14. The Crisis of the Modern World
By: René Guénon , None , None
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be … read more
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15. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
16. Nations and Nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more
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17. The Decline of the West
By: Oswald Spengler , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the Westhas ranked as … read more
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18. National System of Political Economy
By: None
4.36
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Friedrich List was one of the most prominent economic philosophers of the 19th century, on a par wi… read more
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19. The Condition of the Working Class in England
By: Friedrich Engels
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the bes… read more
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20. Why I Am Not a Liberal - Imperium Press (Studies in Reaction)
By: Jonathan Bowden
3.83
Format: None pages, ebook
Bowden's oratorical firepower is on full display in this 2009 interview. Members of the London New-… read more
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21. Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency
By: Alain de Benoist
4.05
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
Few names, apart from that of Leo Strauss, are invoked more often when discussing the American resp… read more
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22. Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective
By: Matthew Alexandar Sarraf
4.35
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yielded--inclu… read more
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23. The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History
By: Brooks Adams
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The Law of Civilization and An Essay on History is a philosophical work by American historian Broo… read more
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24. Political Romanticism
By: Carl Schmitt
4.00
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliame… read more
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25. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
