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  • An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man

    by Ian Jackson, Jason Xidias ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Francis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence.In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical context of the time. ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Thomas Paine’s 1776 Common Sense has secured an unshakeable place as one of history’s most explosive and revolutionary books. A slim pamphlet published at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was so widely read that it remains the all-time best selling book in US history.An impassioned argument for American independence and for democratic government, Common Sense can claim to have helped ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Thomas Paines's Common Sense

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    Published in 1776, when America was teetering on the brink of war with Britain, Common Sense galvanized the colonists and George Washington’s army, influencing not only the course of the Revolutionary War, but also the resultant government. For Paine, British rule in America amounted to little more than tyranny, and he went to great lengths to explain the deficiencies in the system of government ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's The Phenomenology of the Spirit

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 45 min

    Hegel’s most influential work introduces the idea that philosophical truths are inseparable from the history of philosophy and the histories and politics of the societies in which they arise. He argues that our perception of reality is flawed, that to know anything, we must understand everything—and that everything is interrelated, forming what Hegel calls the “Absolute.” Only by understanding the ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis :

    War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 54 min

    Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013). Global Crisis posits that colder weather was a key reason why people of the 1600s lurched between droughts, famines, and countless wars which, combined with poor political decisions, spelled disaster for people, places, and societies ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis

    War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Few historians can claim to have undertaken historical analysis on as grand a scale as Geoffrey Parker in his 2013 work Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. It is a doorstop of a book that surveys the ‘general crisis of the 17th century,’ shows that it was experienced practically throughout the world, and was not merely a European phenomenon, and links it ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Hegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credited with influencing Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and many other key modern philosophers. That approach is the so-called “Hegelian dialectic” – ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Amusings

    by Ian Jackson ...
    The micro Amusings of Australian author Ian Jackson suggests a definitive 'without fanfare' approach to humour and satire. His stories and ditties sweep across different genres and subjects with a thought-provoking approach to debate and discussion. A former London resident, his narratives are ensconced deep within the heart of Hampstead, the traditional London borough that is home to some of the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 48 min

    Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies. Fukuyama believed democracy triumphed during the Cold War because it lacks the “fundamental contradictions” inherent in communism and satisfies our yearning for freedom and equality. Democracy therefore marks the endpoint in the evolution of ideology, and so the “end ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant is as daunting as he is influential: widely considered to be not only one of the most challenging thinkers of all time, but also one of the most important. His Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason takes on two of his central preoccupations – the reasoning powers of the human mind, and religion – and applies the full force of his reasoning ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

    by Ian Jackson ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 53 min

    Do we need religion to be good people? ¶When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he produced a book that remains a key text in the shaping of Western religious thought. Examining religious practices in relation to the Enlightenment movement and its firmly held beliefs in the power of reason and personal liberty Kant argues that God is fundamentally unknowable, and that human beings must ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

  • An Analysis of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government

    by Jeremy Kleidosty, Ian Jackson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    John Locke’s 1689 Two Treatises of Government is a key text in the history of political theory – one whose influence remains marked on modern politics, the American Constitution and beyond.Two Treatises is more than a seminal work on the nature and legitimacy of government. It is also a masterclass in two key critical thinking skills: evaluation and reasoning. Evaluation is all about judging and ... Read more

    $8.95 USD