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    How the Nazis Invented Modern Management

    by Johann Chapoutot ...
    Narrated by Cory J. Herndon ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 59 min

    TARGET CONSUMERFor readers of business biographies and those interested in the history of corporate capitalism, in the legacy of fascism and Nazism, German history.For readers of books by Tony Judt, Timothy Snyder, Byung-Chul Han, Ian Kershaw, Volker Ullrich, Richard Evans, Niall FergusonKEY SELLING POINTSReadable yet erudite work of economic historyExplores the connection between corporate man... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Disturbance

    Surviving Charlie Hebdo

    by Philippe Lançon ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    In this Prix Femina–winning memoir, a writer at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo recounts surviving the deadly terror attack on their office.On January 7, 2015, two terrorists claiming allegiance to ISIS attack the Paris office of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Brief History of Equality

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight for it, and constantly (re)invent the myriad of institutions that will bring it about. This book is ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of Political Conflict

    Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789–2022

    by Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A pioneering history of voting and inequality, drawing on an unprecedented data set covering more than two centuries of sociological findings.Who votes for whom and why? Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty comb through more than two hundred years of data from some 36,000 French municipalities to show how inequality has shaped the formation of political coalitions, with stark consequences for economic ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Crimes of Winter

    by Philippe Georget ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series Book 3 - The Inspector Sebag Mysteries
    The third Inspector Sebag mystery "dives deeper into character than most traditional detective yarns and is written with wit, poignancy, and panache" ( Kirkus Reviews).Crime, suspense, and marital woes combine in this atmospheric procedural set in the seemingly quiet Mediterranean town of Perpignan.This winter is going to be a rough one for Insp. Gilles Sebag, for he has discovered a terrible ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of German Philosophy

    by Vittorio Hösle ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    The story of German philosophy from the Middle Ages to todayThis concise but comprehensive book provides an original history of German-language philosophy from the Middle Ages to today. In an accessible narrative that explains complex ideas in clear language, Vittorio Hösle traces the evolution of German philosophy and describes its central influence on other aspects of German culture, including ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Reason and Rationality

    by Jon Elster ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between philosophers who use the idea of reason to assess human behavior from a normative point of view and social scientists who use the idea of rationality to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies

    Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism

    by Guillaume Payen ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd, Steven Rendall ...
    A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopherIn this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher’s life and work. Critically, but without polemics, he creates a portrait of Heidegger in his time, using all available sources—lectures, letters, and the notorious “black notebooks. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    by Jean Tirole ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Art of the Modern Age

    Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger

    by Jean-Marie Schaeffer ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    Series series New French Thought Series
    This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Perpetual Euphoria

    On the Duty to Be Happy

    by Pascal Bruckner ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    How happiness became mandatory—and why we should reject the demand to "be happy"Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion—one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone who hasn't yet attained the blessed state of perpetual euphoria. How has a liberating principle of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD