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On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that... -
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan 9781631490590
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the... -
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan 9781631490583
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55For his insistence on the amoral character of successful government, Machiavelli remains a contentious figure. Often reviled as a teacher of evil, Machiavelli's influence on the modern state is... -
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan 9781631490606
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marx's writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and providing a sterling explication and critique of... -
On Augustine: The Two Cities Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407078
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55Augustine's political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Europe but also much of the modern world. In On Augustine Alan Ryan carefully lays out the complicated... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan 9781631490576
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly... -
On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All by Alan Ryan
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In Leviathan, Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Ryan explains how he... -
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407047
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French philosopher who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalogue the unique features of the... -
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407054
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian... -
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy Alan Ryan (Princeton University) 9780871407061
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science,... -
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto by Robert Geddes 9780691155753
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Distinguished architect and urbanist Robert Geddes argues... -
On Liberty and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by John Stuart Mill
Booksplease Price: $16.48This Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays-On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)-that illustrate Mill's liberal political philosophy at the... -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected... -
The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano 9780393308556
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In "The Book of Embraces", he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate,... -
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America by Alexis Tocqueville
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.40One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil... -
The Human Face of Warfare: Killing, Fear and Chaos in Battle by Michael Evans 9781865083742
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.10At the dawn of the 21st century, new weapons and information technologies are transforming warfare to enable wars to be fought 'over the horizon' by smart unmanned missiles. There may be a temptation... -
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the... -
![Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law by Allen Buchanan 9780199297986 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9704015/10720716/9780199297986__41684.1781360109.jpg?c=1 "Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law by Allen Buchanan 9780199297986 [USED COPY]")
Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law by Allen Buchanan 9780199297986 [USED COPY]
RRP: $68.34Booksplease Price: $23.99This book articulates a systematic vision of an international legal system grounded in the commitment to justice for all persons. It provides a probing exploration of the moral issues involved in... -
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9781913724160
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.64In 1892 a furious Charlotte Perkins Gilman put pen to paper and created the avant-garde feminist work The Yellow Wallpaper as a warning - in this haunting Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a room... -
Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Inequality by Richard Sennett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Richard Sennett's Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs... -
The Social Contract And The Discources by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857151626
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.72THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is... -
America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Jacob Heilbrunn 9781324095675
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orban's... -
National Responsibility and Global Justice by David Miller 9780199235056
Booksplease Price: $140.75Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in... -
Democratic Community: Nomos XXXV by John W. Chapman 9780814715079 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62A state-of-the-art meditation on relations, theoretical and practical, among a familiar triad of themes: comunitarianism, liberalism, and democracy. --American Political Science Review A... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray 9780141999432
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'Britain's best philosopher - he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order' Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas... -
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $19.42Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the... -
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
RRP: $27.46Booksplease Price: $24.56Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds 9780691211961
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher... -
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780192897718
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.07'A manifesto for hope' Literary Review From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.78Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that... -
Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents by Doris Kearns Goodwin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of... -
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit 9780674194373
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.20Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: $25.39Booksplease Price: $20.02Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $21.94A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial...