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  • The Administrative State

    A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration

    de Dwight Waldo ...
    This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration movement as a chapter in the history of American political thought.The objectives of The ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • The American Scholar Reader

    de Dwight Waldo ...
    To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

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  • Status Anxiety

    de Alain De Botton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    “There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love.Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in ... Leer más

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  • In Praise of Prejudice

    How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past

    de Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Series series Brief Encounters
    Today, the word prejudice has come to seem synonymous with bigotry; therefore the only way a person can establish freedom from bigotry is by claiming to have wiped his mind free from prejudice. English psychiatrist and writer Theodore Dalrymple shows that freeing the mind from prejudice is not only impossible, but entails intellectual, moral and emotional dishonesty. The attempt to eradicate ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Sexual Politics

    de Kate Millett, Rebecca Mead ...
    A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors—D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet—and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Vintage Reading: From Plato To Bradbury: A Persona Tour Of Some Of The World's Best Books

    de Robert Kanigel ...
    Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics, best-sellers, lesser-known greats, and everything in-between. From St. Augustine's Confessions ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Ideas Have Consequences

    de Richard M. Weaver ...
    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Glorious American Essay

    One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

    de Phillip Lopate ...
    **"Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." --Rivka GalchenA monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith.**The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves--sometimes critically--to American ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Schnitzler's Century

    The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

    de Peter Gay ...
    "This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineAn essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the sexually emboldened Viennese ... Leer más

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  • 10 Books that Screwed Up the World

    And 5 Others That Didn't Help

    de Benjamin Wiker ...
    You’ve heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites.From Machiavelli's The Prince to Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, from Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, the breakdown of the family, and disastrous social experiments.And yet the toxic ideas ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of History

    de John Lukacs ...

    $18.99 USD

  • Sincerity and Authenticity

    de Lionel Trilling ...
    Series Libro 31 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “A powerful diagram of the moral life from Shakespeare to the present...a book crowded with insights.”—Geoffrey Hartman, New York TimesOne of the twentieth century’s foremost literary critics traces the idea of the self across five hundred years of Western cultural history.“One cannot both be sincere and seem so,” André Gide once wrote. Attempting to inhabit sincerity to satisfy social ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD