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  • The Shape of the New

    Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World

    by Scott L. Montgomery, Daniel Chirot ...
    "Offers an impressively learned and evenhanded treatment of the Enlightenment's key ideas and the reactions to them over the past two centuries." ―Zoltan Barany, author of The Soldier and the Changing StateOne of the New York Times 's 100 Notable Books of 2015One of Bloomberg Businessweek 's Best Books of 2015<... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Say You Want a Revolution?

    Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure—and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremismWhy have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world where political extremism is on the rise and rational reform based on moderation and compromise often seems ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder

    by Daniel Chirot Clark McCauley ...
    Genocide mass murder massacres. The words themselves are chilling evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political cultural or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union

    by Ana Adi, Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Ion Bucur, Mihail Dobre, Hadrian Gorun, Ruxandra Gubernat, Manuela Marin, Peter Martyn, Henry P. Rammelt, Peter Siani-Davies, Anita-Diana Sterea, Csaba Zahorán, Daniel Chirot, Sergiu Musteata, Virgiliu Târau ...
    Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union explores how the downfall of communism brought about a difficult transition for Eastern and Central Europe. The collapse of communism in this region varied from one case to another and the consequences of this process can still be noticed to varying degrees today. Although most of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • How Societies Change

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    How have societies changed over the past 5,000 years? Welcome to the brief, manageable macro-sociology text that takes your students on a journey to answer this question.This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Confronting Memories of World War II

    European and Asian Legacies

    Edited by Daniel Sneider, Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Chirot ...
    Series series Jackson School Publications in International Studies
    The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized, reinterpreted, and used.By directly comparing European and Asian legacies, Confronting Memories ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Modern Tyrants

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Along with its much vaunted progress in scientific and economic realms, our century has witnessed the rise of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the history of mankind. Even with the collapse of Marxism, current references to “ethnic cleansing” remind us that tyranny persists in our own age and shows no sign of abating. Daniel Chirot offers an important and timely study of modern tyrants, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Contentious Identities

    Ethnic, Religious and National Conflicts in Today's World

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    This book analyzes widespread global ethnic conflicts that tear asunder nations and regions, such as the former Yugoslavia. Dan Chirot casts his analysis in a discussion of the conflict between national and ethnic identity, discovering that ethnic identity, rooted in centuries of tradition and habit, often trumps national identity, which may be of more recent gestation and have a weaker hold on ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Why Not Kill Them All?

    The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (New in Paper)

    by Daniel Chirot, Clark McCauley ...
    Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    You Say You Want a Revolution?

    Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences

    by Daniel Chirot ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    In You Say You Want a Revolution?, Daniel Chirot examines a wide range of right- and left-wing revolutions around the world—from the late eighteenth century to today—to provide important new answers to these critical questions.From the French Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Mexican, Russian, German, Chinese, anticolonial, and Iranian revolutions of the twentieth, Chirot finds that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Conquest of Happiness

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The timeless philosophical text about creating a joyful life by overcoming limited beliefs and egotism, from the Nobel Prize–winning author.Despite living in nations where basic needs are met—even surpassed—and where an abundance of modern conveniences have reduced dangerous physical labor, people suffer from an affliction of despair. Beliefs and habits taught in childhood about what to value and ... Read more

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  • Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    by Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural worldA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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