Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays, Paperback - Sheldon S. Wolin

DescriptionSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breath...

Contributor(s): Author: Sheldon S. WolinIntroduction by: Chris HedgesDemocracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost clich . Bu...

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Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

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Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of...

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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the follow...

Author of How Fiction Works James Wood has long established himself as the leading critic of his generation. With The Fun Stuff, he confirms his pr...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as ...

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Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Monique WittigNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 142 x 216 x 10Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generat...

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Calling on diverse examples from Ancient Greek sculpture to contemporary paintings, this title creates a witty, paradoxical world in which the only...

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Reducere. Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau's popular essays included here: Civil Disobed...

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Reducere. In Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays, Steve Fellner traces the seriocomic absurdities of his own mind and its obsessions with family, mental illne...

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DescriptionOne of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an act...

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The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate p...

Reducere. Among the men and women prominent in the public life of America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet t...

Reducere. A beautiful new edition of the most important writings of America's greatest philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Includes "The American Scholar, " "D...

Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves...