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Social Justice Fallacies
Author: Thomas Sowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our time, with an appeal to many different people, for many...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
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The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul
An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually...
Who Rules the World?
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Bestseller The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of...
Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of
In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events...
The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason
Author: Douglas Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'The most important book of the year' Daily Mail The brilliant and provocative new...
Naturalism And Social Science: A Post-Empiricist Philosophy Of Social Science
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy and social inquiry, Naturalism and Social Science presents a rigorous and thought-provoking post-empiricist...
Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
An acclaimed economist's observations on four years of events that have shaped the world In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde , renowned...
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political
Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets...
The Last Days of Socrates
Plato's riveting account of the trial and death of Socrates, in a new translation by Christopher Rowe 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not...
War and Anti-War: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...
Failed States: The abuse of power and the assault on democracy
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The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and
'A global star ... Tom Friedman has done it again ... given his track record as a zeitgeist thermometer, we should all pay attention' Financial Times Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The...
That Used To Be Us: What Went Wrong with America - and How It Can Come Back
Author: Thomas Friedman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends and it is failing to meet...
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in...
The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a work that permanently altered how the world thinks about commerce, culture, and connectivity, Thomas L. Friedman argues that...
Freedom And The Foundation: The Fund For The Republic In The Era Of Mccarthyism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of America's most paranoid decade, Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists and commentators. Confronting social, political and...
Foot Soldier in the Culture Wars
Tony Thomas's new essays pulverise "woke" causes including climate doomism; the Aboriginal industry; and the ABC's bias. While society goes mad with political correctness, Tony gives sanity and laughter a...
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn "This a...
Because We Say So
Essays on American hegemony from the West's most prominent critic of US imperialism For over fifty years, one fact has dominated global politics- the United States can respond to any...
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control
Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, revisits Thomas Paine's Common Sense . In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential....
Thomas Paine Reader
A collection of Thomas Paine's outstanding works on political revolution This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle...
Memoirs Of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart.: With An Inquiry Into The Results Of Emancipation
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Author: Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton; Edited By Charles BuxtonBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1898Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dull and...
Thomas Hobbes
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This book gives a comprehensive treatment of Thomas Hobbes' thought in the light of the most important research currently being produced by historians, philosophers, and political scientists. His life and...
The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century
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So Long Until Tomorrow: From Quaker Hill To Kathmandu
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingA life lived at full throttle across every corner of the globe — that is the extraordinary promise...
The Political Philosophy Of Hobbes: His Theory Of Obligation
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Plastic sheet covering dust jacket, pencil underliningThis academic work meticulously examines Thomas Hobbes's foundational political philosophy,...
So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious
In 1665, an infectious disease swept through the British capital and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. It would take another two hundred years for the cause...
And So it Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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One of the most important literary biographies of recent times, this is not only the story of one of the century's greatest writers, but the history of Russia itself. A...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and...
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learning The ancient Greek philosopher...
George Orwell: A Life
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why The World Needs A Green Revolution - and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
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Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World after September 11
America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after As the Foreign Affairs columnist for the The New York Times , Thomas...
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Author: Ewa AtanassowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 227mm, 510g, 388 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American...