Can Politics Be Thought?

DescriptionFor those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have ...

Reducere. "Think with the few and speak with the many, " "Friends are a second existence, " and "Be able to forget" are among this volume's 300 thought-provo...

Reducere. In his final work, one that distills decades of research and thought, a distinguished economic thinker turned social scientist and philosopher conf...

Reducere. The second of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his ...

What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines reconciliation...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective, considering it as a document of social an...

Can you see in the dark? Do you want to? If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then this book may be for you. Dark Truths is a truly u...

Conservatism, Republican politics, and traditional Christianity are thought by some to go together like baseball and apple pie. Yet, for a growing ...

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching desi...

The thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word "God" can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth cen...

DescriptionThe Black Lives Matter movement reinvigorated Black political movements around the globe. People who never thought of themselves as acti...

Who is the 'Devil'? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have...

A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature--and what can be done to fight it Polarization may ...

Reducere. Do you want to take a tour through time and go deep into the minds of the most influential philosophers of all humanity? If you want to immerse you...

DescriptionFirst published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist th...

In science, race can be a useful concept--for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Etienne De La BoetieIntroduction by: Murray N. RothbardTranslator: Harry KurzLARGE PRINT EDITIONMore at LargePrintLiberty.c...

Reducere. Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock l...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-...

Reducere. Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society, Volume II: The Continuing Impact of American Indian Ways in No...

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on...

Society and Economy--a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology--is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's id...

Reducere. More than a hundred stereotype maps glazed with exquisite human prejudice collected by Yanko Tsvetkov, author of the viral Mapping Stereotypes proj...

Reducere. Home is a loaded word, a complex idea: it's a place that can be comforting, difficult, nourishing, war-torn, or political. In this breathtaking, th...

Reducere. While examining the important role of imagination in making moral judgments, John Dewey and Moral Imagination focuses new attention on the relation...

Reducere. This defining period in world history is explored and explained as never before. World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, present...

Reducere. My power could unite the summer fae... or tear them utterly apart.The truth is out. The whole Seelie realm now knows that the cure for their full m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lance WallnauTake your place in helping America fulfill her unfinished assignment. Make no mistake, the gnawing concern you...

DescriptionA new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field This book seeks to chart the technology-fueled changes taking place...

Reducere. With this volume we would like to celebrate critically the importance of the Revolution of 1989, as a problem-event that cannot be worked out in an...

This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Le...

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Reducere. Written between 1945 and 1947, the essays in Sense and Non-Sense provide an excellent introduction to Merleau-Ponty's thought. They summarize his p...

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone...

Reducere. Stoicism has played an influential role in the history of Western thought for over two thousand years. It shaped the culture of ancient Greece. It ...

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures bec...

Reducere. The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...

DescriptionNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclus...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardShort-listed for Physics World's Book of the YearThe Sunday Times (UK) Best S...