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  • Discourses on Livy

    by Niccolò Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Harvey C. Mansfield, Nathan Tarcov ...
    Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. With a substantial introduction, extensive explanatory notes, a glossary of key words, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Influence of Faith

    Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy

    by Elliott Abrams, Mark R. Amstutz, Gerald Anderson, J Bryan Hehir, Allen Hertzke, Charles Horner, Samuel P. Huntington, Robert Kagan, Habib Malik, Stephen V. Monsma, Andrew S. Natsios, Norman Ornstein, Paul Pierson, Daniel Pipes, Leo Ribuffo, Nathan Tarcov, Arthur Waldron, George Weigel, Public Policy Center, Michael R. Wiest ...
    Realists have long argued that the international system must be based on hard calculations of power and interest. But in recent years, religion's role on the international scene has grown. The Influence of Faith examines religion as a growing factor in world politics and U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is placed on the American reaction to the persecution of Christians and Jews overseas, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration

    by Alan Levine, Michael Gillespie, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Alan Craig Houston, Shirley Letwin, Joshua Mitchell, Patrick Riley, Diana J. Schaub, Steven B. Smith, Nathan Tarcov, Kenneth R. Weinstein ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity and considers the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem through a purely historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate the significance of these issues to contemporary debates in political philosophy and public ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • In Search of Humanity

    Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin

    by Andrea Radasanu, Timothy W. Burns, Brent Edwin Cusher, Donald Forbes, Bryan-Paul Frost, Ran Halévi, Henry Higuera, Robert Howse, S. N. Jaffe, Michael S. Kochin0, Noah Lawrence1, Mark J. Lutz2, Arthur M. Melzer3, Jeffrey Metzger4, Miguel Morgado5, Waller R. Newell6, Michael Palmer7, Lorraine Smith Pangle8, Thomas L. Pangle9, Marc F. Plattner0, Linda R. Rabieh1, Michael Rosano2, Susan Meld Shell3, Ryan K. Balot4, Paul A. Cantor5, Steven Forde6, Kenneth Hart Green7, L. Joseph Hebert Jr.8, Christopher Kelly9, William B. Parsons0, Diana J. Schaub1, Nathan Tarcov2, Richard Velkley3 ...
    This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

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    Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

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    The conservative radio host and syndicated columnist provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization.In Still the Best Hope, Dennis Prager offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the "American Trinity" of liberty, natural rights, and the melting-pot ideal ... Read more

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  • A Book Forged in Hell

    Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

    by Steven Nadler ...
    When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious ... Read more

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  • How Civilizations Die

    (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)

    by David Goldman ...
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  • Democracy Matters

    Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

    by Cornel West ...
    **“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“"A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe**In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of corruption that has plagued ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

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