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  • On Wings of Eagles

    The Inspiring True Story of One Man's Patriotic Spirit--and His Heroic Mission to Save His Countrymen

    by Ken Follett ...
    #1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . .When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Politics

    by Aristotle ...
    The “groundbreaking translation” of the foundational text of Western political thought, now in a revised and expanded edition (History of Political Thought).Aristotle’s masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. Carnes Lord’s lucid translation helped raise scholarly interest in the work and has served as the standard English edition for decades. Widely regarded as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wretched of the Earth

    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Raising Them Right

    The Untold Story of America's Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot for Power

    by Kyle Spencer ...
    A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the new stars of the far right—and how they’ve partnered with billionaire donors, idealogues, and political insiders to build the most powerful youth movement the American right has ever seenIn the wake of the Obama presidency, a group of young charismatic conservatives catapulted onto the American political and cultural scenes, eager to thwart nationwide ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Progress and Poverty

    by Henry George ...
    Progress and Poverty by Henry George.This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China.Henry George lived through a period of American history which witnessed the closing of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World After Gaza

    A History

    by Pankaj Mishra ...
    **"Courageous and bracing, learned and ethical, rigorous and mind-expanding.” —Naomi Klein“This profoundly important and urgent book finds Mishra, one of our most intellectually astute and courageous writers, at the peak of his powers.” —Hisham Matar“A triumphant work of empathy in a polarizing conflict.” —Anand GiridharadasNamed a Best Book of the Month by TIME • Named a Most Anticipated Book of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What We Owe the Future

    **An Instant New York Times Bestseller“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.”**—Ezra KleinAn Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    by Andreas Malm ...
    Property will cost us the earthThe science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Black AF History

    The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • End of History and the Last Man

    Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book WorldFrancis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Companion To Marx's Capital

    The Complete Edition

    by David Harvey ...
    The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economyIn recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx’s work in an effort to understand the origins of our current political and economic crisis.For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Summary: The Assassins' Gate

    Review and Analysis of George Packer's Book

    The must-read summary of George Packer's book: “The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq”.This complete summary of "The Assassins' Gate" by George Packer, a renowned American journalist, presents his explanation of the creation of the Bush administration's war policy and how this led to America's invasion of Iraq. He explains how the US became ensnared in a guerrilla war and the impacts this had at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Five Thousand Year Leap

    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible to create a new kind of civilization; giving freedom, equality, and justice to all. The Founders ... Read more

    $6.95 USD

  • The Principles of Communism (Illustrated Edition)

    Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 August 5, 1895) was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, working in close collaboration alongside Karl Marx. In 1845, he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848, he produced with Marx The Communist Manifesto and later ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Conspiracy Theory

    The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

    Series series An Origin Story Book
    AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhat makes people believe in conspiracy theories? Why have they taken over our political sphere? And how do we counter them before it's too late?The world has always had conspiracy theories. From the ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Centrism

    The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)

    Series series An Origin Story Book
    AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraA coherent political philosophy or a vacuous cop-out? A pragmatic middle way between the extremes of left and right or a cynical strategy to secure power and neuter debate?Politicians have long ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Intellectuals

    From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

    by Paul Johnson ...
    "Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done...great fun to read." — New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Embracing Alienation

    Why We Shouldnt Try to Find Ourselves

    by Todd Mcgowan ...
    The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

    Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government

    Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose.Bisson traces the origins of European ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demodiversity

    Toward Post-Abyssal Democracies

    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world. This book presents the democratic practices, spaces and processes that engage directly with the theoretical assumptions advanced by the epistemologies of the South, summoning other contexts and empirical realities that attest to the possibility of a renewal and deepening of democracy ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Origins Of Totalitarianism

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism—an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • After Occupy

    Economic Democracy for the 21st Century

    by Tom Malleson ...
    These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Truman's Triumphs

    The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America

    Series series American Presidential Elections
    The Chicago Tribune headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” remains infamously wrong about the outcome of the 1948 presidential election. But, as Andrew Busch reveals, there is much more to this story than the well-worn image of a victorious and beaming President Harry Truman parading the newspaper’s erroneously headlined front page for all to see.Primarily a contest between Truman and challenger Thomas ... Read more

    $20.99 USD