Free Press, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead..... More
Simon & Schuster Books, January 1975. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; A great reading copy. More
The MIT Press, September 2023. Paper Back. A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the..... More
Harper Torchbooks/ The University Library/ Harper & Row, 1960. Paper Back. Octavo with bowed spine and plenty of user wear. Darkened/dust stained from age. [317 pages + seven page list of Harper Torchbook titles]. More
Viking, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors... It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together."--NPR Winner of the 2022 ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books..... More
Mariner Books, October 2021. Hardcover. "This book has a miraculous quality.... As a memoir this is hard to put down; if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up."--Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyranny INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A celebrated foreign..... More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, December 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with two large chips. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name, loacation and a date inked top corner of FFEP. Rubber stamp from previous dealer front paste down. Jacket verso is tanned. Gold cloth covered..... More
Grove Press, September 2008. Paper Back. Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vividly introduces Paine and his Declaration of the..... More
A Vintage Book, 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with sun lightened spine. Rubbing and scars to cover. [350 pages + xv Index]. More
Vintage, April 1989. Trade Paperback. The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of..... More
D. Van Nostrand Company, 1955. Paper Back. 2011 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues which have divided Marxists from non-Marxists, and Marxists from each other. This volume of..... More
Routledge, September 2005. Trade Paperback. To understand the psychology of those who engage in terrorism, John Horgan draws on interviews with terrorists and analyzes current evidence to argue that only by asking the right questions about this complex problem, and by answering them with evidence, can we truly begin to..... More
Vintage, March 1992. Trade Paperback. In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies--from Catholic clergymen to..... More
MCD, May 2023. Hardcover. The national bestselling author and streetwear entrepreneur Bobby Hundreds's manifesto about NFTs, the future of creativity, and bringing his brand and community into the modern digital space. Bobby Hundreds has spent twenty years building his streetwear company, The Hundreds, to be as much a community as..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2023. Hardcover. From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and..... More
Hanian Media, April 2011. Paper Back. A collection of essays about life in these United States from a libertarian left perspective. Many of the essays appeared in the journal Counterpunch and cover everything from the resignation of Richard Nixon to the knighthood of Mick Jagger;the war in Vietnam to the..... More
Brill Academic Pub, January 2015. Hardcover. Recognition and Freedom brings together leading international scholars to discuss the political thought of the social philosopher Axel Honneth. In addition to providing an introduction to Honneth's political thought, the book examines topics such as education, solidarity, multiculturalism, agonism, neo-liberalism and the ways in..... More
Tarcher, August 2004. Hardcover. Examines the decline of the American Dream as Americans are increasingly overworked and underpaid and describes its alternative as exemplified in the lifestyle of the New Europe, one that is more leisurely, healthy, and sustainable. Rifkin delves deeply into the history of Europe--and eventually America--to show..... More
Viking, May 2023. Hardcover. "Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker." --Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy. China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the..... More
AMACOM, August 2009. Trade Paperback. Taking on risk is simply a part of business. But new developments in technology and communication make risk management simpler and more effective than ever before. Using examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, author John Hampton takes a fresh look..... More
Oxford University Press, May 1995. Hardcover. In this seminal book, Christopher Johnson writes a full-scale study of the rise and decline of industrialization in the Bas-Languedoc region of France. Working within a broad 200-year frame, Johnson examines the process of how and why a successful industrial region transformed itself to..... More
Crown Forum, October 2016. Hardcover. The New York Times Bestseller William F. Buckley, Jr. remembers--as only he could--the towering figures of the twentieth century in a brilliant and emotionally powerful collection, compiled by acclaimed Fox News correspondent James Rosen. In a half century on the national stage, William F. Buckley..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 2023. Paper Back. A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe. Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don't coexist easily. We value individuality and self-reliance..... More
Vintage, January 2003. Trade Paperback. In Warrior Politics, the esteemed journalist and analyst Robert D. Kaplan explores the wisdom of the ages for answers for today's leaders. While the modern world may seem more complex and dangerous than ever before, Kaplan writes from a deeper historical perspective to reveal how..... More
Lexington Books, April 2012. Trade Paperback. When a Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher, Jimmy Carter, won the 1976 presidential election, it marked the start of a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then have followed Carter's lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking..... More
