Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution
By: Philip Bobbitt
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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1. America's Constitution: A Biography
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.25
Format: 657 pages, Hardcover
In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil R… read more
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2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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3. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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4. Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.70
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more
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"Et tu, Brute?"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Beware the ides of March."-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
5. Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review
By: John Hart Ely
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written fo… read more
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6. Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , N.C. Wyeth
3.85
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From … read more
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"Doctors is all swabs."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"... Bear up until you see you're gaining."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"We must go on, because we can't turn back."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
7. Journey to the Center of the Earth
By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more
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"Axel,"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"Then don’t you despair?"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"I dream with my eyes open."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
8. 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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9. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
10. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
By: Paul Kennedy
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DIL… read more
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11. America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Despite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enume… read more
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12. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
By: Timothy Snyder
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more
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13. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
14. Cat's Cradle
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more
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15. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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16. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
17. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
18. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
By: Jonathan Rauch
4.25
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts Disinformation. Trolling. Conspir… read more
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"Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent."-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
"If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social n…"-Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
19. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
20. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
21. Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine K. Albright
4.25
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes tod… read more
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"...to be defenseless did not mean to be without honor."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was “bully,"-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
"A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields."-Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
22. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
By: Eric Foner
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more
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23. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
By: Joseph J. Ellis
4.35
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more
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24. Judging Statutes
By: Robert A. Katzmann
3.75
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
In an ideal world, the laws of Congress-known as federal statutes- would always be clearly worded a… read more
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25. The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
By: Akhil Reed Amar
4.41
Format: 817 pages, Hardcover
A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When … read more
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"with all America and the world looking on, the Federalists in New York at the end of the process reaffirmed what had been clear from the beginning: ratification would be “in toto, and for ever."-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
"in 1775 there arose a remarkable civic society that aimed to end slavery itself. The society was formed not by Johnson, nor in Johnson’s vaunted London, nor indeed anywhere in Britain proper, but rat…"-Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
26. Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution
By: Philip Bobbitt
3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types… read more
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