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  • The Jewish Lobby behind the US Power
    Abdelkader Bensafa / Abderrahime KACHOUR
    The United States currently has unprecedented power. How the United States harnesses that power will have a profound and enduring effect on the next generation of Americans and the world. Lee Hamilton explains how the U.S. can lead as a benign power.Americans must ask themselves what they want to do with this power. How will the U.S. protect itself? How will we protect our frie...
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    60,38 €

  • Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths
    Joseph N Abraham
    Conquest is murder & theftConquerors are vicious criminalsVicious criminals become kingsKings designed civilization...and we are the products of civilization.Right wing movements are rising around the globe, but our attention is misdirected. The problem is not the authoritarian leader, but the blinkered supporters who unthinkingly follow him. Without them, the despot is irrelev...
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    23,80 €

  • A Crisis of Being
    Sharon Thompson
    I was a born non-believer. One of my earliest memories is deciding that Santa Claus did not really exist. Why? He was supposed to arrive in a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. I knew that reindeer can’t fly, therefore there had to be another reason that presents would appear under the Christmas tree. The next victim was the Tooth Fairy. I witnessed my Dad tossing my older siste...
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    11,03 €

  • Utopia
    Saint Thomas More
    Utopia is a novel written by Sir Thomas More based on fiction and socio-political satire. Thomas More describes a utopian island nation in this well-known book, where thousands of people live in harmony and peace, both men and women receive an education, and all property is shared. This utopian vision, which was originally written in Latin, is also a biting satire of Europe in ...
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    16,71 €

  • The Future of Lenin
    Essays that argue in favor of Lenin’s continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought. ...
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    42,87 €

  • The Dialectics of Global Justice
    Bryant William Sculos
    Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory. ...
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    41,95 €

  • An Outcast of the Islands
    Joseph Conrad
    Joseph Conrad’s second book, An Outcast of the Islands, which was released in 1896, was influenced by the mate-ship experience Conrad had on the steamship Vidar. The plot of the book centers on Peter Willems, a dishonest and unscrupulous character who, fleeing a scandal in Makassar, seeks refuge in a secret native hamlet but betrays his sponsors out of a passion for the tribal ...
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    28,87 €

  • Confucian Liberalism
    Roy Tseng
    Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism. ...
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    121,15 €

  • Why Knot
    Richard Seltzer
    THIRD PLACE: CT Press Club Professional Communications Contest for General Non-FictionI don’t think outside the box. There is no box. The box is an illusion that limits the range of what we consider, squashing curiosity and creativity, ruling out possible solutions.Many of these short essays derive from my belief that, as individuals and as a species, self-regulating mechanisms...
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    35,27 €

  • CHINA VERSUS THE US, WORLD BANK & IMF IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
    LYNNE CIOCHETTO
    This timely book provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the major foreign forces active in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. Stimulated by the abundance of reports in the media criticizing China’s presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an analysis of China’s involvement in the region compared to the largest Western players: the United States, the World Bank and...
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    142,31 €

  • The Diplomacy of Ancient Greece
    G.R. Berridge
    Employed against a warlike background, the diplomatic methods of the ancient Greeks are thought by some to have been useless but by others to have been the most advanced seen prior to modern times. This book works to its own view by looking at the conditions that produced this diplomacy, the personnel it employed, the forms it took, and - in a concluding essay - its fitness for...
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    16,82 €

  • Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919
    Sakiko Kaiga
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    35,83 €

  • Afghanistan
    Thomas J. Barfield
    A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political cultureAfghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan,...
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    25,79 €

  • Trojan Horse
    Ruben Alvarado
    The idea of Christian America is a disputed one. Those who affirm it marshal a vast body of evidence in support, while those who dispute it have at their command an equally formidable arsenal of facts and documentation. How is the truth of the matter to be settled?Indubitably, the United States was founded in continuity with the Christian, common-law heritage from the mother co...
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    15,49 €

  • Old Europe Stop The Great Replacement
    Rikard Högberg / TBD
    This book uncompromisingly brings up the question of the demographic destiny of Europe and the Great Replacement. Rikard Högberg lays out the social decline for the last decades across all developed countries. He points out how modern liberal ideology and short-term selfishness have led to the erosion of traditional values, thus subsequently leading to social and demographic de...
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    23,67 €

  • The Political Theory of Salvage
    Jason Kosnoski
    Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities. ...
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    121,43 €

  • The Vibrations of My Thoughts
    Marian Kampinski
    A celebration of life. A healing of wounds. A love of God. A dedication to Israel. A restoration of the soul. A remembrance of the Holocaust. The Vibration of My Thoughts is a pouring of words from the heart by Holocaust survivor Marian Kampinksi. The Vibration of My Thoughts is a striking collection of poetry and drawings, inviting you to remember the past, embrace the future,...
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    29,56 €

  • Thomas Jefferson in Paris
    M. Andrew Holowchak
    Jefferson’s years in France as minister plenipotentiary were a time of large edification. He approached his ministry as a 'looker on': Jefferson, while in France, always kept a critical distance from events, so that he could measure and critically examine them from the perspective of a dispassionate natural philosopher. Being dispassionate, Jefferson was pulled into events only...
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    62,73 €

  • The Legacies of Totalitarianism
    Aviezer Tucker
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    35,81 €

  • Critical theory and social pathology
    Neal Harris
    Axel Honneth’s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task. ...
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    157,59 €

  • Smithian Morals
    Daniel B. Klein
    Smithian Morals takes up Adam Smith’s thought on justice, virtue, propriety, beneficialness, liberty, God, and the conscience. Smith is pursued as exemplar, sage, moral guide, and therapist. Smith teaches us to think dialectically. At the center of Smith’s thought Klein sees a robust affirmation: 'allowing every man to pursue his own interest his own way, upon the liberal plan ...
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    9,19 €

  • Biopolitics at 50 Years
    Biopolitics at 50 Years: Founding and Evolution explores the study of biology and politics through the prism of fifty years of experience presenting current research that illustrates the nature and evolution of biopolitics. ...
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    167,70 €

  • A Mucky Business
    Megan Hills / Tim Farron
    Many Christians are nervous about politics - isn’t the political world murky and sleazy, a den of deceit and backstairs deals? At the same time, the image of Christians in politics isn’t great either - often seen as judgemental hypocrites, intolerant and hateful control freaks... shouldn’t this mean that faith and politics should be kept firmly apart?In A Mucky Business, Tim Fa...
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    15,65 €

  • The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    EMMA GOLDMAN
    Emma Goldman, the anarchist feminist political philosopher, was known throughout her lifetime as the 'High Priestess of Anarchy.' To the tabloids, she was 'Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists.' Today, she is heralded as a founder of anarcha-feminism and remembered for her feminist credo: 'If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution.' Over the course of an extraordinar...
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    9,09 €

  • Dissent
    Peter Wuteh Vakunta
    Dissent: The Highest Stage of Patriotism is a treatise on dissent as the acme of love for one’s fatherland. Arguing against the grain, the author avoids smug patriotism; that which manages to make everything about the homeland flawless and beautiful. It is the author’s conviction that the greatness of a nation resides not in citizens’ blind sycophancy, but rather in their willi...
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    39,99 €

  • Doubting the Divine in Early Modern Europe
    George McClure
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    126,65 €

  • Power and Humility
    John Keane
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    107,00 €

  • The Democratic Collapse
    Lauren N. Haumesser
    This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown’s raid revealed that white manhood and...
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    35,64 €

  • The Democratic Collapse
    Lauren N. Haumesser
    This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown’s raid revealed that white manhood and...
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    127,11 €

  • The Hidden History of Neoliberalism
    Greg Palast / Thom Hartmann
    America’s most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it’s time for us to turn our backs to it. With four decades of neoliberal rule coming to an end, America is at a crossroads. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neolibera...
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    30,15 €