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After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis
After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis
Bruno Latour

After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to...

The Room Where It Happened
The Room Where It Happened
John Bolton

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, ...

Twilight of Democracy
Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are t...

The Tyranny of Merit
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour o...

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak

The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of ...

How the South Won the Civil War
How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending sla...

The Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy
The Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy
Michael Lewis

'Will set your hair on end' Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year'Life is what happens between Michael Lewis books. I forg...

Fear: Trump in the White House
Fear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLDRUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Explosive.”—...

The Laws of Human Nature
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts f...

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder

#1 New York Times Bestseller * A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards ...

On Tyranny : Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny : Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Na...

On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky

"Radical linguist, philosopher, and activist Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost intellectuals. Known for his br...

(Download PDF) Politics and the English Language
(Download PDF) Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

'The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's reals and one's declared aims, one ...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Week...

The Price of Politics
The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward

See how and why Washington is not functioning in Bob Woodward’s freshly reported, thirty-five-page Afterword to his na...

The Republic by Plato
The Republic by Plato
Plato

Famous philosophical treatise of the 4th century BC concerns itself chiefly with the idea of justice, as well as such Pl...

The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx

Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manif...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli

For nearly 500 years, Machiavelli's observations on Realpolitik have shocked and appalled the timid and romantic, and fo...