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Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna de Sousa-García
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUna novela que nos llama a no apartar la mirada del horror que viven quienes se ven obligados a emigrar.Mientras su mundo se cae a pedazos, la narradora de Atrás queda la tierra conecta una serie de memorias, palabras e imágenes, para escribir una conmovedora novela de no ficción sobre el dolor que provocan el despojo y la violencia... -
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim...Categorized as:
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Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences...Categorized as:
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured...Categorized as:
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America... -
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order...Categorized as:
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern...Categorized as:
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past...Categorized as:
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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try"... -
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA fascinating chronicle of little known history of Debt Must we always repay our debts? Wasnt money invented to replace ancient barter systems? Apparently not, according to Yale-bred anthropologist David Graeber. In a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom, Graeber radically challenges our understanding of debt...Categorized as:
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Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control•...Categorized as:
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael J. Knowles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” —CANDACE OWENS "The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ A New We Win, They Lose The Culture War is over, and the culture lost... -
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCompulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics—the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions...Categorized as:
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media: The Companion Book to the Award-Winning Film by Mark Achbar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of more than a dozen festival awards, the film has played to packed houses in more than two hundred cities worldwide... -
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions--from a leading Harvard social psychologist."Livingston has made the important and challenging task of addressing systemic racism within an organization approachable and achievable... -
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century...Categorized as:
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks...Categorized as:
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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors... -
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Lajos Egri
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAmong the many "how-to" playwriting books that have appeared over the years, there have been few that attempt to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin, Iain Mckay
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHis most influential work. A challenge to classical Darwinism, Kropotkin argues that in nature, co-operation is as important as competition...Categorized as:
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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre, Аласдер Макинтайр
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world... -
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention...Categorized as:
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Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine, Jack Fruchtman Jr.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPaine's daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes " The Crisis ," " The Age of Reason ," and " Agrarian Justice...
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