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“michael arnheim”

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  • Five Thousand Years of Monarchy

    by Michael Arnheim ...
    Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world historyFive Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clarity, and a deep command of historical detail, Michael Arnheim reframes five millennia of global governance through a strikingly original lens: the idea that every government, from ancient Sumer to ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Why Rome Fell

    Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change?

    by Michael Arnheim ...
    Explore an insightful and original discussion of the causes of the fall of the Roman EmpireIn Why Rome Fell: Decline and Fall, or Drift and Change?, celebrated scholar of Roman history Dr. Michael Arnheim delivers a fascinating and robust exploration of the causes of and reasons for Rome’s fall in the West. Steeped in applications of elite theory to the later Roman Empire, the author discusses ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • God Without Religion

    An Alternative View of Life, the Universe and Everything

    by Michael Arnheim ...
    Which is right, atheism or organised religion? Answer: Neither. What's wrong with atheism? The intolerant radical "New Atheists" of today champion the theory of evolution by natural selection, which may help to explain small changes and variations in living things but can't explain the origin of the universe or the origin of life – because natural selection needs life to kick-start it into action. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Two Models of Government

    by Michael Arnheim ...
    This book offers a fresh and original analysis of the power structure of a number of societies, past and present. There are and ever have been only two essential models of government: minority rule of all types (labelled "oligocracy") and regimes in which power is concentrated in the hands of a single individual (labelled “monocracy”).The present-day “democracies” of Britain and the United States ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Practical Guide to Your Human Rights and Civil Liberties

    by Michael Arnheim ...
    This timely and comprehensive book, post-Brexit, is written by an experienced human rights barrister and covers all aspects of human rights and civil liberties in the United Kingdom. The much talked about UK Bill of Rights, supposedly replacing the Human Rights Act, is also covered. The book is wide ranging and certainly topical as we enter a new phase of our relationship with Europe. It will be ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    U.S. Constitution for Dummies

    2nd Edition

    by Dr. Michael Arnheim ...
    Narrated by Dr. Michael Arnheim ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 40 min

    Your complete guide to understanding the U.S. Constitution.Want to make sense of the U.S. Constitution? This new edition walks you through this revered document, explaining how the articles and amendments came to be and how they have guided legislators, judges, and presidents—and sparked ongoing debates along the way. You'll get the lowdown on all the big issues—from separation of church and state ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Lessons of History

    by Will Durant, Ariel Durant ...
    A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Power

    A New Social Analysis

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The History of Law in Europe

    An Introduction

    by Marco de Benito, Bart Wauters ...
    'The rule of law and property rights were the ''secret weapons'' that made Western Europe and its offshoots in North America and Oceania democratic and prosperous. How did this European legal system come to be? To answer this question, Bart Wauters and Marco de Benito offer us a fresh overview of the history of law in Europe, dealing with both civil and common law, from Roman times through to its ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Empires of Faith

    The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700

    by Peter Sarris ...
    Series series Oxford History of Medieval Europe
    Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam. The formation of a new social and economic order in western Europe in the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries, and the ascendancy across the West of a new culture of military lordship, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

    by Perry Anderson ...
    The rise of the modern absolutist monarchies in Europe constitutes in many ways the birth of the modern historical epoch. Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, the companion volume to Perry Anderson’s Lineages of the Absolutist State, is a sustained exercise in historical sociology to root the development of absolutism in the diverse routes taken from the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • THE STATE

    ITS HISTORIC ROLE

    by Peter Kropotkin ...
    “…Kropotkin’s brilliant, erudite, provocative lecture needs no formal introduction from a latter-day translator. And one assumes that the reader is prepared to make the necessary time adjustment and allowances for ‘contemporary’ references that are no longer contemporary but still interesting and relevant to our time; and for forecasts that have alas been proved over-optimistic; possibly too for ... Read more

    $2.73 USD