8 must-read politics books like The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Roger D. Masters, Judith R. Masters

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The First and Second Discourses

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Roger D. Masters , Judith R. Masters

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text inclu…

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1. The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

By: Isaac Newton , I. Bernard Cohen , None

4.24

Format: 974 pages, Paperback

In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the P… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of t…"

-Isaac Newton, The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

"God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of t…"

-Isaac Newton, The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

" Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of attraction of the bodies of the solar system. The deviation from complete acc…"

-Isaac Newton, The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

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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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  • politics
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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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3. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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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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  • classics
  • school
"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

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5. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • school
"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

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6. Meno

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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8. A Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted

By: John Locke , None

3.41

Format: 549 pages, paper

John Locke's subtle and influential defense of religious toleration as argued in his seminal Letter… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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9. The First and Second Discourses

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Roger D. Masters , Judith R. Masters

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most respected translations of this key work of 18th-century philosophy, this text inclu… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
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10. Plays Unpleasant

By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence

3.68

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

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  • classics
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11. Meditations on First Philosophy

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era… read more

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  • school
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
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12. Selected Poems

By: Gwendolyn Brooks

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipie… read more

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  • classics

13. Moon Palace

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to hi… read more

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14. Manon Lescaut

By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more

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15. Lucrèce Borgia

By: Victor Hugo

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Indifferente a la haine de l'Italie entiere, Lucrece Borgia parade au carnaval de Venise. Qui pourr… read more

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16. Persuasion

By: Jane Austen , James Kinsley , Deidre Shauna Lynch

4.15

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, co… read more

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  • classics
"Time will explain."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"Give him a book, and he will read all day long."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

"He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody."

-Jane Austen, Persuasion

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17. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • classics
  • france
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"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

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18. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

19. Gorgias

By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more

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20. The Misanthrope

By: Molière

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Misanthropeor Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureuxis a comedy of manners in five acts and i… read more

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21. Juste la fin du monde

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

3.20

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Le fils retourne dans sa famille pour l'informer de sa mort prochaine. Ce sont les retrouvailles av… read more

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  • classics
  • france
  • school

22. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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23. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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24. Discourse on Method

By: René Descartes , Donald A. Cress

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's tra… read more

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25. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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26. Beloved

By: Toni Morrison

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a … read more

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27. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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28. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

By: Catherine McCormack

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"

-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

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29. Les impatientes

By: Djaïli Amadou Amal

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la j… read more

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  • france
  • school

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