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  • Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic

    Atheists in American Public Life

    by Isaac Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore ...
    “Illuminating.” —Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular LifeIf the First Amendment protects the separation of church and state, why have atheists had to fight for their rights? In this valuable work, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick reveal the fascinating history of atheism in America and the legal challenges to federal and state laws that made atheists second-class citizens. ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Democracy in America

    And Two Essays on America

    by Alexis Tocqueville ...
    Translated by Gerald Bevan ...
    One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracyIn 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics. Tocqueville looked to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Federalist Papers

    by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay ...
    Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Cornell

    A History, 1940–2015

    by Glenn C. Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick ...
    In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of varsity athletics, the women's movement, the opening of relations with China, and the creation of ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Portable Edmund Burke

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament with his powerful defense of the American Revolution and the rights of persecuted Catholics in England and Ireland; his indictment of the English ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Portable Enlightenment Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

    And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness

    by William Godwin ...
    One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the 'brute engine' of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic

    Atheists in American Public Life

    by R. Laurence Moore, Isaac Kramnick ...
    Narrated by Matthew Boston ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence—especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Common Sense

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

    by Ralph Ketcham ...
    The complete texts of the documents that tell the story of the clashes and compromises that gave birth to the Unites States of America.Should the members of the government be elected by direct vote of the people?Should the government be headed by a single executive, and how powerful should that executive be? Should immigrants be allowed into the United States?How should judges be appointed?What ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful

    by Edmund Burke, David Womersley ...
    Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspired by fear and awe, the second an expression of pleasure and serenity. Eloquent and profound, A ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the first fully annotated edition of these works. - ;`An army of principles will penetrate where an army ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD