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1) The republic
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English
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Cambridge texts in the history of political thought. Edited by G. R. F. Ferrari. Translated by Tom Griffith.
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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2021
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224 pgs
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English
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When a drug-addled Hunter Biden abandoned his waterlogged computer at a Mac repair shop in Delaware in the spring of 2019, just six days before his father announced his candidacy for the United States presidency, it became the ticking time bomb in the shadows of Joe Biden’s campaign.
The dirty secrets contained in Hunter’s laptop almost derailed his father’s presidential campaign and ignited one of the greatest media coverups in American history.
This...
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English
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Today our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser that the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. But one advantage is that we can learn from experience. Timothy Snyder discusses how every American can keep themselves informed in order to resist tyranny.
4) Common Sense
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English
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Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished by Paine's passionate ideas and his clear and passionate presentation.
5) The prince
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Includes notes, refernces and index.
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Publisher
Limited Editions Club
Pub. Date
[1974]
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2 v. (xiii, 461 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
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English
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The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
10) The prince
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1992
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2nd ed.
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English
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Norton critical edition. Includes authoritative text (revised translation), backgrounds, interpretations, and marginalia. Translated and edited by Robert M. Adams.
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English
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America's preeminent columnist presents his penetrating and surprising reflections on everything from embryo research to entitlement reform, from Halley's Comet to border collies, from Christopher Columbus to Martin Luther King, from drone warfare to American decline. Selected essays previously published in various periodicals and journals are featured.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship--one tinged with undeniable...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Since Donald Trump's historic ascendance to the presidency, American politics have reached a boiling point. Social and economic issues, even national security, have become loud, violent flashpoints for political rivals in the government, in the media and on the streets. This collective derangement has a name: mass hysteria. In his new book, STOP MASS HYSTERIA, #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage not only deconstructs the Left's unhinged...
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Duke Classics
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English
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One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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xxiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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""America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us -- and how we are polarizing it -- with disastrous results. "The American political system -- which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president -- is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face," writes political analyst...
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Crown Forum
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is an intimate collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, political and philosophical--including never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy--this is the most profound book yet by the legendary writer and thinker. For longtime readers...
18) Holy terror
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Publisher
Simon
Pub. Date
1939
Physical Desc
454 p.
Language
English
Description
Rise and fall of an English dictator.
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 243 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. "They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate," Carlson writes, "as something outdated...