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  • New Japan Architecture

    Recent Works by the World's Leading Architects

    by Deanna MacDonald, Geeta Mehta, Cesar Pelli ...
    Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.The past five years are widely consider to have been the most innovative period in contemporary Japanese design history. The projects featured in New Japan Architecture were completed during this extraordinarily fertile time. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Total Latin American Architecture

    Libretto of Modern Reflections & Contemporary Works

    by Ana de Brea ...
    A selected, fully open, and deep assemblage, that carries the explicit intent of outlining, conceptual and practical verifications, on critical views and specific projects, concerning the actual architecture in the Latin American territory.The book intends to communicate a targeted objective, to circumscribe a segment, a series of observations and actions in architecture. However, it is a selected ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Death Penalty

    Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria

    by Cesare Beccaria, Giuseppie Pelli ...
    The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty—here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese aristocrat named Cesare Beccaria created a sensation when he published On Crimes and Punishments. At its centre is a rejection of the death penalty as excessive, unnecessary, and pointless. Beccaria is deservedly regarded as the founding father of modern criminal-law reform, yet he was ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Read more

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  • Social Contract

    by Jean Jacques Rousseau ...
    In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourses on the Origin of Inequality, he outlines his own history of the development of human society. He explains in general terms how the differences between social and economic classes arose alongside the formation of modern states. He also explores the means by which these inequalities were actually built into and perpetuated by the foundational notions of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Forum and the Tower

    How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

    by Mary Ann Glendon ...
    As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the meeting ... Read more

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  • The Roads to Modernity

    The British, French, and American Enlightenments

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the ... Read more

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  • The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    This "fresh new rendition of Rousseau's major political writings is a boon for scholars and students alike"—with a critical introduction by the translator (Richard Boyd, Georgetown University).Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called all of these things. Few philosophers have been ... Read more

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  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World that He Made

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
    A New York Times-bestselling author presents a provocative new interpretation of The PrinceThe Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics—and in particular the politics of power—ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original ... Read more

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  • Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

    by Cesare Beccaria, Aaron Thomas ...
    Translated by Jeremy Parzen ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738–1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Liberty of Servants

    Berlusconi's Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    A compelling look at how a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressedItaly is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD