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By: Paul Addison

ISBN: 9780712659321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1994
UK Publication Date: 6th January 1994
Publisher: Vintage
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The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war.


(Paperback)

By: Frdric Gros

ISBN: 9781784787158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Verso Books
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By: Mark Lilla

ISBN: 9781590179024
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2016
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, the author argues, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. He unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers - Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss.


(Hardback)

By: Nicole Aschoff

ISBN: 9780807061688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Beacon Press
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"The smartphone is the defining commodity of the twenty-first century, pitting ordinary peoples' desire for entertainment, connection, and justice against government and corporate drives for control and profit"--


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By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN: 9780141018881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.


(Hardback)

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ISBN: 9781857151626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Everyman
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THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is one of three most influential treatises ever written (the others being PLato's REPUBLIC and Marx's DAS KAPITAL) Of the three it is safe to say that only THE SOCIAL CONTRACT is much read in its entirety today, and it continues to exert a direct influence on contemporary political thought.


(Hardback)

By: Andrew Whitby

ISBN: 9781541619340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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The fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census, revealing why the true boundaries of any nation today aren't lines on a map but columns in a census tabulation


(Hardback)

By: Thomas Sowell

ISBN: 9780465022502
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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These selections from the many writings of Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, and newspaper columns, to articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines.


(Hardback)

By: Jere van Dyk

ISBN: 9781610394314
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A former hostage in the tribal areas of Pakistan returns to meet his kidnappers and uncover how political kidnappings and ransomings take place in the shadows of the world's most lawless territories.


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By: William Easterly

ISBN: 9781541675674
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Basic Books
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A "bracingly iconoclastic" (New York Times) critique of global development that points a way toward respect for the poor and an end to global poverty


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By: Carol Roth

ISBN: 9780063081413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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For years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. In reality, government is the problem.

In The War on Small Business, entrepreneur Carol Roth unveils the many abuses of power inflicted on small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.


(Paperback)

By: Robin Broad

ISBN: 9780807055403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2022
Publisher: Beacon Press
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"A narrative account of how El Salvador's water protectors successfully fought off an international corporation and won an unlikely battle against the World Bank"--


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Chris Hedges

ISBN: 9781568587288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th February 2013
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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"Indicative of the long-time war correspondent's experienced eye and commitment to social justice...[Hedges'] descriptions of the dangers of American'political passivity' deserve careful consideration along with much else in these powerfully written pages" "Publishers Weekly, starred review


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By: Will Hutton

ISBN: 9780349114712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Questioning whether capitalism is monolithic or reflects the civilisation in which the market economy is embedded, Will Hutton calls for Europe to create a unified balance to the American model - a model which accepts a high degree of inequality and social regulation in return for capitalist vitality.


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By: Maureen Dowd

ISBN: 9781455539253
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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From the preeminent political columnist of our time, New York Times bestseller Maureen Dowd's most incendiary takes and takedowns on the bizarre and fascinating election of 2016.


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By: Susan Morrison

ISBN: 9780061455940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Morrison, editor at "The New Yorker," brings together a stellar group of writers, including Deborah Tannen, Susan Cheever, Lorrie Moore, and others, to offer a compelling multidimensional look at the woman who might the Americas first female president.


(Paperback)

By: Owen Jones

ISBN: 9780141994390
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Thomas Paine

ISBN: 9780140444964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th July 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine was an inspiration to Americans in their struggle for independence. This book contains Paine's major works including "The Rights of Man", "Common Sense", and the first part of "The Age of Reason".


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By: Juan Zarate

ISBN: 9781610394642
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"An entertaining insider's account of America's 'new breed of financial power'... full of interesting accounts of the way smart sanctions were applied... a valuable history of a hidden but essential part of America's response to 9/11." -Financial Times


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By: Newt Gingrich

ISBN: 9781546085041
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich lays out what is at stake in the 2020 elections and why Donald Trump must be re-elected.


(Paperback)

By: Newt Gingrich

ISBN: 9781546077077
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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TRUMP'S AMERICA is Gingrich's call to arms about the fight over what we, as citizens, are allowed to think and do-and his ideas on how conservatives can win this fight. The outcome of this fight will determine the kind of government we have and, ultimately, the kind of country we become.


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By: Michael Savage

ISBN: 9781478976707
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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In the #1 New York Times bestseller TRUMP'S WAR, the "Godfather of Trumpmania," Michael Savage, examines the initial appointments, speeches, tweets and history of President Donald Trump and offers his insights and analysis.


(Hardback)

By: Pete Buttigieg

ISBN: 9781529356304
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust has been central to our nation's current predicament-and how our future depends on finding ways to restore confidence in the American project, and in each other.


(Paperback)

By: Pete Buttigieg

ISBN: 9781529356311
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust has been central to our nation's current predicament-and how our future depends on finding ways to restore confidence in the American project, and in each other.

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