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The definitive history of the powerful and brutal East German Secret Police The sleeper hit expose of one of the world's most mysterious organizations: Yale University's 200-year-old secret society Skull and Bones....
THE BESTSELLING BOOK FOR THOSE WHO WANT POWER, WATCH POWER, OR WANT TO ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST POWER . . .A moral, cunning, ruthless, and... John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This...
As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America is no longer guaranteed.... Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it guarantees. In that defense of capitalist...
Examines the changing character of political identities, affiliations, and allegiances in the contemporary world. These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories.
Human rights norms do matter. Those established by the Helsinki Final Act contributed directly to the demise of communism in the former East... In the first of a major two-volume work, Fukuyama, author of the bestselling "The End of History and the Last Man," provides a sweeping...
America's two foremost cultural critics discuss the dissolving state The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and...
This book explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), one of the most... Tracing the gradual evolution of revolutions since the American and French examples, Arendt predicts the changing relationship between war...
"Edgework" brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from... Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of...
Tour de force analysis of the forces that drive populism by the major political theorist. In this sympathetic restatement of C. B. Macpherson's ideas, Townshend provides an overview of Macpherson's theory of possessive...
From one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history comes this brilliant... Explores how the social science concept of global modernization shaped American foreign policy in the Kennedy administration, from such...
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