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  • Trump, Putin und die Vereinigten Staaten von Europa

    In seinem neuen Buch analysiert der renommierte Ökonom und Bestseller-Autor Hans-Werner Sinn die tektonischen Verschiebungen der Weltordnung. Er beleuchtet die Machtpolitik von Donald Trump und Wladimir Putin, stellt deren Einfluss auf Europa in den Kontext globaler Interessen und entwickelt eine pointierte Vision für die Schaffung eines europäischen Bundes.Die Ereignisse der letzten Monate und ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • State and Revolution

    Lenin wrote State and Revolution in 1917, while he was hiding from the Russian secret police. The book describes the inherent nature of the State as a tool for class oppression, a creation born of one social class's desire to control all other social classes.Drawing on detailed quotes from Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, Lenin lays down a Marxist view of the state, describes how a working-class ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论(下册)

    by 吴国光 ...
    Series Book 3 - 转型八论
    三卷本《走向共产党之后的中国:转型八论》融贯学术研究与现实关怀,结合制度分析与时政评论,回望当今中国"逆转型"的来路,剖析"习近平新 时代"的特点,展望中国政治经济前景,并提出对中国政治大转型的战略思考。全书分八辑,下册包括三辑:第六辑,论政治转型:以"民变促发官变""再论民变与官变"及"三论民 变与官变"为骨架,本辑探讨中国政治变革自毛后到今天的历程和困局,并勾勒中国政治转型的现实路径。其中后半部分贡献了对当今中国政治转型 形势与战略的新思考,深入探讨在新极权时代如何反抗,如何寻求"破局"并推动中国走向没有共产党的政治未来。第七辑,论历史经验:按所论主题的历史顺序排列,涉及民族主义和大 一统等宏观问题,对辛亥革命和五四运动等历史事件从民主巩固视角提出 新的分析思路,揭示中共的暴力本质与专制密码,也有在追思王若水、刘宾 雁、余英时、鲍彤等前辈中生发出的关于社会变革的洞见。第八辑,论文化重建 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • LA REPUBLIQUE

    La Philosophie politique

    by PLATON ...
    Series Book 1 - La philosophie politique de Platon
    Platon (427 av. J.-C. – 347 av. J.-C.) est un philosophe antique de la Grèce classique, contemporain de la démocratie athénienne et des sophistes, qu'il critiqua vigoureusement. Il reprit le travail philosophique de certains de ses prédécesseurs, notamment Socrate dont il fut l'élève, ainsi que celui de Parménide, Héraclite et Pythagore, afin d'élaborer sa propre pensée, laquelle explore la ... Read more

    $2.91 USD

  • In the Words of Nelson Mandela

    "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against blackdomination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free societyin which all persons live together in harmony and with equalopportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." NelsonMandela spoke these words from the dock at the Rivonia ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies

    An Integrated Approach

    by Gary Goertz ...
    An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study researchMultimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law, or business. This authoritative and accessible book offers the first truly comprehensive approach to multimethod and case ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Das Ende der Gerechtigkeit

    Ein Richter schlägt Alarm

    Wir leben in einem Rechtsstaat. Doch tun wir das wirklich? Faktenreich und anhand anschaulicher, fast unglaublicher Geschichten aus dem Justizalltag beschreibt Jens Gnisa, Vorsitzender des Deutschen Richterbundes, eine schleichende Erosion des Justizsystems. Er geht den vielschichtigen Ursachen einer Entwicklung auf den Grund, die allzu oft verdrängt wird. Und damit eine der zentralen Säulen der ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Research Handbook on Digital Regulatory Agencies

    This multidisciplinary Research Handbook surveys digital regulation, examining responses to changing digital technologies that are reshaping economies and societies. Expert contributing authors address foundational questions about regulating digital platforms, balancing innovation with risk, and adapting traditional regulatory models to the distinct traits of the digital economy.Drawing on ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Winston Churchill

    A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

    Series series Significant Figures in World History
    Winston Churchill has for decades been regarded as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century, not just in his home country Britain but in the USA as well, where he continues to be an inspiration to many to this day. In 2002 he was voted The Greatest Briton, and the 2016 movie The Darkest Hour continues his global iconic status as someone who stood up to tyranny in 1940, against all the ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Portable John Adams

    by John Adams ...
    In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, ... Read more

    Was $7.39 USD Now $6.29 USD

  • You Are Not Human

    How Words Kill

    In Nazi Germany, Hitler portrayed the Jews as vermin and six million people were killed. Metaphors can make the unreasonable seem reasonable, the illegitimate appear legitimate, and good people turn evil.Top speechwriter Simon Lancaster goes on a mission to explore how metaphors are used and abused today. From Washington to Westminster, Silicon Valley to Syria, Glastonbury to Grenfell, he ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    Classiques de la littérature, sélectionnés et commentés.Pilier fondamental de la pensée économique moderne.Dans ce traité audacieux pour son époque, Smith explore les mécanismes du marché, la division du travail et le rôle de l'État dans l'économie.Il défend l'idée que la recherche de l'intérêt personnel, lorsqu'elle est encadrée par des institutions appropriées, peut conduire à la prospérité ... Read more

    $1.15 USD

  • Lenin and Imperialism

    An Appraisal of Theories and Contemporary Reality

    Edited by Prabhat Patnaik ...
    There are two distinct levels at which Lenin theorised about imperial-ism. At one level he outlined certain tendencies in the phase of monopoly capital which generated situations of actual or potential armed conflict and made for global instability of the international capitalist state system. At another level he explored with this theoretical apparatus, the specific, conjuncture which prevailed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Guild Socialism Restated

    by G Cole ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions
    Guild Socialism Restated is G D H Cole’s fullest and most systematic account of his vision of industrial and political reorganization. The introductory chapters of the volume develop the theme of democratic citizenship in relation to industrial society. Cole contends that neither capitalism nor state socialism can adequately meet the fundamental requirements of democracy because neither provides ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Der politische Islam gehört nicht zu Deutschland

    Wie wir unsere freie Gesellschaft verteidigen

    Der politische Islam ist derzeit eines der größten Integrationshemmnisse von Muslimen in die deutsche Gesellschaft. Doch was ist gemeint, wenn die Herausgeber und Autoren dieses Buches vom politischen Islam sprechen? Für Carsten Linnemann und Winfried Bausback ist eine klare Differenzierung dringend notwendig, "denn den einen Islam gibt es nicht. Stattdessen gibt es unzählige Strömungen, leider ... Read more

    $19.39 USD

  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    A special gift edition of one of the most important and influential documents in our nation’s history—featured in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Hamilton: An American Musical—stylishly packaged for twenty-first-century readers.According to John Adams, "Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain." With Common ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle

    Language of Civil Resistance in Conflicts

    by Gene Sharp ...
    From the 494 B.C. plebeians' march out of Rome to gain improved status, to Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India, to the liberation of Poland and the Baltic nations, and the revolutions in North Africa, nonviolent struggles have played pivotal roles in world events for centuries. Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle is a groundbreaking reference work on this topic by the "godfather of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Lies of the Tutsi in Eastern Congo/Zaire

    A Case Study: South Kivu (Pre-Colonial to 2018)

    by John Kapapi ...
    There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Capitalism

    The Unknown Ideal

    In this series of essays, Ayn Rand presents her stand on the persecution of big business, the causes of war, the default of conservatism, and the evils of altruism.The foundations of capitalism are being battered by a flood of altruism, which is the cause of the modern world's collapse. This is the view of Ayn Rand, a view so radically opposed to prevailing attitudes that it constitutes a major ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Bourinot's Rules of Order

    A Manual on the Practices and Usages of the House of Commons of Canada and on the Procedure at Public Assemblies, Including Meetings of Shareholders

    Nervous about chairing a meeting? Puzzled by the lingo of quorums and motions and adjournments? Wondering how to prevent someone from monopolizing the discussion?Bourinot's Rules of Order is the definitive guide to conducting meetings, large and small, formal and relaxed. Based on the procedures of the House of Commons in Ottawa, these rules outline all the steps and the details you need to know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Communist Manifesto

    'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric HobsbawmThe Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society ... Read more

    $4.86 USD

  • The Twentieth Century

    A People's History

    by Howard Zinn ...
    “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this ... Read more

    $12.79 USD