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  • The Republic of Plato

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The definitive translation of Plato's Republic**, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy.**“To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth.” —Adam Kirsch, from the introductionA cornerstone of Western thought, The Republic remains a... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Closing of the American Mind

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Republic of Plato

    by Allan Bloom ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 36 min

    The definitive translation of Plato's Republic**, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy.**“To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth.” —Adam Kirsch, from the introductionA cornerstone of Western thought, The Republic remains a... ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    The most precise and authoritative translation of one of the founding works of Western culture, in an edition supported by helpful, effective notes.The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

    by Aristotle ...
    The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ideas Have Consequences

    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Righteous Indignation

    Excuse Me While I Save the World

    **Internet journalist and entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart shares his outspoken views about the liberal media machine, the federal government and how he sees that Americans everywhere are being misled."Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent." —Rush Limbaugh, American conservative political commentator and host of The Rush Limbaugh Show**Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Savage Reprisals

    Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

    by Peter Gay ...
    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Soul of the World

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Incomplete Education

    3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't

    A completely updated, revised edition of the classic, outfitted with a whole new arsenal of indispensable knowledge on global affairs, popular culture, economic trends, scientific principles, and modern arts. Here’s your chance to brush up on all those subjects you slept through in school, reacquaint yourself with all the facts you once knew (then promptly forgot), catch up on major developments ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Crime and Punishment

    Translated by David McDuff ...
    'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John BayleyDostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be beyond ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

    Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Académie française, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to "correct" English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, "On Language," provide help on diction ... Read more

    $9.99 USD