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  • The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

    Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

    The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn AfghanistanFormer ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How Fascism Works

    The Politics of Us and Them

    by Jason Stanley ...
    **“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“One of the defining books of the decade.”—Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on CrimeNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • With a new preface • Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Civil Disobedience

    Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifestoMotivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Culture and Anarchy

    Matthew Arnold’s acclaimed collection of essays tackles difficult questions about humanity, culture, society, and the ultimate value of governmentIn this critical masterwork, Matthew Arnold contrasts culture, which seeks to utilize the best of human thought, with anarchy, which derives from the impulse toward nonconformity and the dissolution of the church. In the context of these two opposed ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Reason

    by Thomas Paine ...
    The author of Rights of Man and Common Sense argues for belief in God without religion.My own mind is my own church.In The Age of Reason, political activist and Founding Father Thomas Paine makes a powerful case for a rational approach to theology. In keeping with the intellectual tradition of British Deism, Paine rejects the notion of divine revelation, saying “it is revelation to the first ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The True Believer

    Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

    by Eric Hoffer ...
    “Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New YorkerThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill’s masterwork: A meditation on the relationship between the individual and societyOne of the foremost thinkers of his age, John Stuart Mill was a steadfast advocate of individual freedom. This groundbreaking work explores the relationship between freedom and authority, between the citizen and the state, applying Mill’s concept of utilitarianism to the philosophy of governance. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?

    Is there no alternative?

    by Mark Fisher ...
    Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the ‘age of work’ seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence – a ‘worker’s society’ in the worst sense of the term – where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? "I feel drained, empty… dead." This book tells the story of the dead man working. It follows this figure through the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Das Kapital (Mobi Classics)

    Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism and its practical economic application and also, in part, a critique of other related theories. Its first volume was published in 1867. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Contract

    The eighteenth-century philosopher’s landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions.“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renaissance Philosophy

    The Art of Worldly Wisdom; Reflections: Or, Sentences and Moral Maxims; and Maxims and Reflections

    Wisdom for today’s world from three great thinkers of the Renaissance era.This collection of three philosophical works by Renaissance men offers timeless advice on how to prosper and live morally in business, romance, religion, and society. Although written in the Renaissance era, these guides still resonate today and are collected here for easy reference.In The Art of Worldly Wisdom, Baltasar ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tyranny of Merit

    What's Become of the Common Good?

    A Times Literary Supplement’s Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?These are dangerous tim... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leviathan

    by Thomas Hobbes ...
    The seventeenth-century work of political philosophy that brought us the concept of the social contract.Considered by many to be as influential and provocative as Machiavelli’s The Prince, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, written during the English Civil War, argues that only a people united under a strong sovereign can resist the forces of chaos.Exploring such concepts as the state of nature and the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emile

    Or On Education

    The once banned and burned treatise on the nature of education from the eighteenth-century philosopher and author of The Social Contract.Considered by Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself to be the “best and most important” of all his writings, Émile set off a firestorm when it was first published in 1762. It was banned in Paris and burned in Geneva, but later served as the inspiration for a new national ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Web

    A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

    Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, he lets his understanding of the new media environment direct his analysis of the newly risen conservative rebels who have taken YouTube by storm. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent "renegades" including Sam Harris, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Prince

    The PrinceHere is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president.When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Discourse on Inequality

    A fascinating examination of the relationship between civilization and inequality from one of history’s greatest mindsThe first man to erect a fence around a piece of land and declare it his own founded civil society—and doomed mankind to millennia of war and famine. The dawn of modern civilization, argues Jean-Jacques Rousseau in this essential treatise on human nature, was also the beginning of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down Girl

    The Logic of Misogyny

    by Kate Manne ...
    Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Prince

    Il Principe ( The Prince ) is the famous text by Florentine public servant Niccolo Machiavelli, in which he outlines the best strategy by which a prince can acquire, maintain and protect his state. Published posthumously, the text departs from his previous works, but is that for which he is remembered, and which has produced the adjective "Machiavellian". Machiavelli directives for maintaining a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Bible of Unspeakable Truths

    by Greg Gutfeld ...
    Greg Gutfeld, the acclaimed host of the popular, nightly Fox News show Red Eye, has packed this book full of his most aggressive (and funny) diatribes -- each chapter exploring Unspeakable Truths that cut right to the core and go well beyond just politics. Greg deconstructs pop culture, media, kids, disease, race, food, sex, celebrity, current events, and nearly every other aspect of life, with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rights of Man

    by Thomas Paine ...
    The Founding Father’s most influential work: an impassioned defense of democracy and revolution in the name of human rights.Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.In Rights of Man, Founding Father of the United States Thomas Paine makes a compelling case in favor of the French Revolution. Written in response to Edmund ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woke, Inc.

    Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

    In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Communist Manifesto: (Manifesto Of The Communist Party; German: Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei) (Mobi Classics)

    Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope in the Dark

    Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice).A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus