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Eating Animals
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Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to do dietary choices on a kid's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency His quest for answers ultimately necessary him to visit factory farms in the middle of ...
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Categories Ethics   General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Vegan   Ethics & Morality   Animal Rights   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Atlas Shrugged
DescriptionAt last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback.

Together with this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the ideal artistic shape to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of the much popular novelists of the century, but one of ...
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The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e) / Intervention)
DescriptionThirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still would like us to think in the economy. . . . We have to see this the economy is itself the crisis. It's not this there's not enough work, it's this there is too much of it.
—from The Coming Insurrection

The Coming Insurrection is an ...
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Categories General AAS   Public Policy   Political Ideologies   Textbooks Trade-In   Political   Radical Thought   General   Federal Government   Radicalism   Violence in Society   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
DescriptionA black swan is a highly improbable event together with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, afterwards the fact, we concoct an explanation this makes it be visible less random, and extra predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans ...
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Categories Management   General AAS   Epistemology   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Computer Science   Information Science   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Nineteen Eighty-Four
DescriptionThought Police. Big Brother. Orwellian. These words have entered our vocabulary for the reason that of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. The story of one man's nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair throughout a world ruled by warring states and a power structure this controls not only information but in addition unique thought ...
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Categories General AAS   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Paperback   Pynchon, Thomas   Political   Literary   Classics   Orwell, George   Printed Books  
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed ...
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Categories Economic Theory   General AAS   Political History   Public Policy   Economic History   Economic Policy & Development   Theory   General   Political   History & Theory   Fascism   Marxism   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Civil Disobedience
DescriptionCivil Disobedience written by legendary author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the top essays of all time. This excellent classic which argues this people should not permit governments to overrule will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Civil Disobedience is necessary reading for various ...
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ManufacturerCreateSpace
Categories General AAS   MOD CreateSpace Books   Free Will & Determinism   Paperback   Printed Books  
Machiavelli's The Prince
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Widely read for its insights into history and politics, The Prince is one of the much provocative works of the Italian Renaissance. Based on Niccolò Machiavelli’s observations of the effectiveness of together ancient and contemporary statesmen, the rules for governing set forth in his manual were considered radical and harsh by his ...
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Categories General AAS   Political History   Textbooks Trade-In   General   Literary Theory   Political   History & Theory   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
Description A exclusive edition hardcover in celebration of Ayn Rand’s centennial.

When it was first published in 1943, The Fountainhead--containing Ayn Rand’s daringly original literary vision together with the seeds of her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism—won immediate worldwide acclaim. This instantaneous classic is the story of an ...

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Categories General AAS   General   Hardcover   Political   Rand, Ayn   Classics   Printed Books  
The Problems of Philosophy
DescriptionOne of his excellent works, and a must-read for any student of philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy was written in 1912 as an introduction to Russell's thought. As an empiricist, Russell starts at the beginning together with this question: Is there any knowledge in the world this is so certain this no reasonable man could doubt it? This, according to ...
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