Common Sense (Penguin Great Ideas) by Penguin (Non-Classics) $10.00
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook...
The Prince (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by W.K. Marriott $18.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its author’s realism,...
The Law by Foundation for Economic Education $12.95
Frederic Bastiat's arguments against socialism are as valid today as when first published in 1850. 2 cassettes.
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by PublicAffairs $27.99
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the national interest”or even their subjectsunless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the...
WE STILL HOLD THESE TRUTHS: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future by Intercollegiate Studies Institute $18.00
Featuring a foreword by bestselling author and popular talk radio host William J. Bennett,We Still Hold These Truthsis an inspiring and enlightening look at ten core principles that define our national creed—and that we must reclaim in order to put our country back on track.
The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by Ronald Hamowy $25.00
From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government. Enter Nobel Prize–winning economist and political theorist F. A. Hayek, whose passionate warning against empowering states...
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap) by Belknap Press $52.00
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had...
The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition by Allan Bloom $22.95
Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the corrected text itself there is...
Politics (Hackett Publishing) (Hackett Classics) by Hackett Pub Co $44.95
No other English-language translation comes close to the standard of accuracy and readability set here by Reeve. This volume provides the reader with more of the resources needed to understand Aristotle's argument than any other edition. An introductory essay by Reeve situates "Politics" in Aristotle's overall thought and offers an engaging critical introduction to its central argument. A...
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by William Morrow & Co $15.95
An internationally acclaimed scholar provides this lasting contribution to the study of ideological origins of political struggles. Thomas Sowell is the acclaimed author of Marxism.