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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"He's brash, brilliant, and drawn to controversy like a moth to a flame. Mark Steyn is America's most brutally honest columnist, ready to sound off on every hot issue in the news-and always ready to ruffle feathers. Prepare to be shocked and entertained by this curated compendium of Steyn's most provocative, hilarious, and thought-provoking columns"--
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English
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"Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, [this book] is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy. Edited and with an introduction by the columnist's son, Daniel Krauthammer, it is the most...
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Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror." Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a "master critic of the modern global condition" (Foreign Policy). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading conservative thinker of the post-war years. His public pronouncements were prophetic and provocative. Dooley, Scruton's literary executor, has assembled the best of Scruton's essays and commentaries, arranged thematically. Writing with passion and conviction, Scruton takes aim at those who defy conservative common sense in favor of liberal falsehoods.
7) The republic
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English
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The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
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English
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"From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power. To...
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Series
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Shortest History of China charts a path from China s tribal origins through its storied imperial era and up to the modern Communist Party under Xi Jinping including the rarely told story of women in China and the specters of corruption and disunity that continue to haunt the People s Republic today. A master storyteller and exacting historian, Linda Jaivin distills this vast history into a short, riveting account that today s globally minded readers...
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Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucksis abar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economistsRobert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden toinvestigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism-while drinking a lot of beer.
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Who decides what is permissible on the internet: Politicians? Mark Zuckerberg? Users? Who determines when political debate becomes hate speech? How does this impact our identity or our ability to create communities and to protest? Silicon Values reports on the war for digital rights and how major corporations--Facebook, Twitter, Google and Tiktok--threaten democracy as they harvest our personal data in the pursuit of profit."--Amazon.com.
13) Leviathan
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English
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An analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity.
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating canonical thinkers as passionately engaged human beings, Wood examines their ideas not simply in the context of political languages but as creative responses to the social relations and conflicts of their time and place. She identifies a distinctive relation between property and state in Western history and shows how the canon,...
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The Agustin Agency es una division de The Agustin Agency Services, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
El 26 de Diciembre de 1991, aconteció un hecho de suma importancia: el colapso de Unión Soviética. Semejante evento trajo enormes repercusiones que pocos habían previsto. Muy pocas personas, entre ellas el historiador Andrei Amalrík y el premio Nobel Alexander Solzhenitsyn , disidentes rusos, habían mostrado el valor y la visión para predecir que semejante seísmo tendría lugar. Aunque es indiscutible que la Guerra fría concluyó, hace mucho...
17) Democracy!
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Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A simple, fact-filled introduction for the smallest activists on how to participate in a democracy by making your voice heard and voting"--
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Crisis dominates the present historical moment. The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and by the undoing of social and political ties we inherited from modernity. Yet, traditional views of crises as just temporary setbacks do not seem to hold any longer; this crisis seems permanent, with no way out and no...
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Publisher
New Internationalist
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dissidents of the International Left gives a clear-headed look at the many different strands of the international and domestic leftist currents pulsing throughout the world. With over 60 interviews it gives lesser known dissidents, leftists, secularists and feminists the same platform as more well-known progressive and Leftist stalwarts. The author interviews relatively well-known and famous intellectuals from the Western world such as Noam Chomsky,...
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