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Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher]()
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsModern culture is obsessed with identity.Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends--and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self...Categorized as:
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![The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro]()
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the... -
![Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro]()
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate... -
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![And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts]()
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century... -
![Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt]()
Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Happiness DiaryThe first edition was confiscated by the Securitate in 1972, and restituted in 1975, after censorship intervention. Meanwhile, he had finished writing a second version of the book, which is in its turn confiscated in 1984... -
![The Complete Works of Plato by Plato, Mohamed Elwany]()
The Complete Works of Plato by Plato, Mohamed Elwany
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis edition contains the complete works of Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) of the University of Oxford. Also included are lengthy and insightful introductions by Jowett. The works presented here are generally agreed by most scholars to be attributed to Plato.This book has been meticulously converted to the Kindle format for great readability and easy navigation...Categorized as:
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![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
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Plato: Complete Works by Plato
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOutstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity... -
![How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson]()
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald J. Robertson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time... -
![The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church by The Episcopal Church]()
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church by The Episcopal Church
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the standard Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to use in the Episcopal Church in the United States as authorized in 1979...Categorized as:
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![The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs]()
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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![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
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![The Story of Civilization [Volumes 1 to 11] by Will Durant, Ariel Durant]()
The Story of Civilization [Volumes 1 to 11] by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsVol 1 Our Oriental HeritageVol 2 The Life of GreeceVol 3 Caesar and ChristVol 4 The Age of FaithVol 5 The RenaissanceVol 6 The ReformationVol 7 The Age of Reason BeginsVol 8 The Age of Louis XIVVol 9 The Age of VoltaireVol 10 Rousseau and RevolutionVol 11 The Age of... -
![The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison]()
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... -
![The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes]()
The Complete Works: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 1 by Aristotle, Jonathan Barnes
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle... -
![White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones]()
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves and the nation...Categorized as:
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![Enchiridion by Epictetus]()
Enchiridion by Epictetus
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHandbook of Epictetus also known as Enchiridion written by legendary Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus is a manual of Stoic ethical advice. Compiled by Arrian, who was a student of Epictetus, this great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, the Handbook of Epictetus is required reading for various courses and curriculums... -
![The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray]()
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDouglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and intersectionality...Categorized as:
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![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
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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![The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun, Danyal Nicholson]()
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldun, Danyal Nicholson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWritten by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography, and cultural history. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography, the philosophy of history, economics, political theory, and ecology... -
![The War on the West by Douglas Murray]()
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world...Categorized as:
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![Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche]()
Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche became one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, whose attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality and philosophy would deeply affect generations of philosophers, psychologists and authors...Categorized as:
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![The Apology by Plato]()
The Apology by Plato
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThis anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format... -
![The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith]()
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsFor eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to...Categorized as:
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![The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene]()
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsStrategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , and Mastery espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy, ensnare an unsuspecting victim, or become the greatest in your field... -
![Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber]()
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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![Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker]()
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIf you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science...Categorized as:
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![The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry]()
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDitching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing.The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy.Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book...Categorized as:
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