The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)
By: Douglas J. Den Uyl
4.18
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth centu…
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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2. 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
3. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life… read more
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4. 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
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6. 50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing: Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
By: Tom Butler-Bowdon
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the t… read more
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7. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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8. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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9. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more
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10. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
11. The Origins of Money
By: Carl Menger
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and p… read more
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12. A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
By: Victor Davis Hanson
4.11
Format: 14 pages, Paperback
Provocative military historian Victor Davis Hanson has given painstakingly researched & pathbreakin… read more
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13. How to Be a Conservative
By: Roger Scruton
3.80
Format: 240 pages, ebook
What does it mean to be a conservative in an age so sceptical of conservatism? How can we live in t… read more
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14. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
15. Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
By: Frank Herbert
3.86
Format: 669 pages, Paperback
Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more
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"Tedbirler al, ama onların gölgesinde yaşama."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?"-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."-Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)
16. Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
By: Ryan Holiday
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case … read more
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"We must master ourselves unless we'd prefer to be mastered by someone or something else."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
"We must practice temperance now, in times of plenty, because none of us know what the future holds- only that plenty never lasts."-Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
17. The Essential Natural Law (Essential Scholars)
By: Samuel Gregg
4.13
Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition
Few ideas have been as influential in the development of moral, political, legal, and economic thou… read more
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18. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED SOE and Italy 1943-1945 (David Stafford World War II History)
By: David Stafford
3.83
Format: 516 pages, Kindle Edition
THE FIRST COMPLETE AND AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT OF BRITAIN’S SECRET WAR IN ITALY IN WW2.‘A gripping ac… read more
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19. The Essential John Locke (Essential Scholars)
By: Eric Mack
4.16
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
No single individual is ever the sole founder of any major stance in political philosophy. Neverthe… read more
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20. The Essential Robert Nozick (Essential Scholars)
By: Aeon J. Skoble
3.89
Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert Nozick was a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who is most famous for his contri… read more
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21. The Essential James Buchanan (Essential Scholars)
By: Donald J. Boudreaux
4.44
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
James (“Jim”) McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), surely seemed an unlikely prospect for winning a Nobel P… read more
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22. The Essential Joseph Schumpeter (Essential Scholars)
By: Russell S. Sobel
4.11
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Schumpeter is one of the most accomplished economists of the twentieth century. Included amo… read more
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23. The Essential Austrian Economics
By: Christopher J. Coyne
4.11
Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition
The origin of the Austrian School of economics is the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Ec… read more
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24. The Essential Adam Smith (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
4.36
Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition
Adam Smith (1723–1790) is widely hailed as the founding father of the discipline now known as econo… read more
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25. The Essential Milton Friedman (Essential Scholars)
By: Steven E. Landsburg
4.36
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
When economists are called “influential,” it usually means they’ve changed the way other economists… read more
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26. The Essential Ronald Coase (Essential Scholars)
By: Lynne Kiesling
4.17
Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition
Ronald Coase (1910-2013) was one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His influe… read more
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27. The Essential Enlightenment (Essential Scholars)
By: Douglas J. Den Uyl
4.18
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
The political ideas that fully came together under the name “liberal” in the early nineteenth centu… read more
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28. The Essential UCLA School of Economics (Essential Scholars)
By: David R. Henderson
4.13
Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition
The UCLA tradition carries on in the work of dozens of economists who earned their PhDs at UCLA dur… read more
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29. The Essential John Stuart Mill (Essential Scholars)
By: Sandra J. Peart
4.16
Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition
The oldest of nine children, John Stuart Mill was born on May 20, 1806; he died in France, where he… read more
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30. The Essential David Hume (Essential Scholars)
By: James R. Otteson
4.35
Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition
David Hume (1711–1776) is a towering and intriguing figure. He was the preeminent philosopher in wh… read more
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31. The Essential Women of Liberty (Essential Scholars)
By: Fraser Institute
4.26
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
The thinkers discussed in this volume are a remarkably diverse group. They were born in the eightee… read more
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