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by Thomas Sowell • June 5, 2007 • Politics & Social Sciences
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably...
by Andrew J. Bacevich • February 7, 2017 • Politics & Social Sciences
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four d...
by William Faulkner • May 18, 2011 • Politics & Social Sciences
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the la...
by Ludwig von Mises • February 28, 2007 • Politics & Social Sciences
Bureaucracy contrasts the two forms of economic management―that of a free-market economy and that of a bureaucracy. In the ma...
by Howard Gardner • January 1, 1983 • Education & Teaching
The book that revolutionized our understanding of human intelligence.
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has ...
by Joshua Muravchik • April 2, 2019 • Politics & Social Sciences
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each fa...
by Nathan Rosenberg • June 1, 1987 • Business & Money
How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and materi...
by Ludwig von Mises • November 29, 2010 • Business & Money
The great book first appeared in German in 1940 and then disappeared, only to reappear in English in 1949. It was a sensation, ...
by Charles Murray • October 1, 1988 • Politics & Social Sciences
In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good Government begins by examining James Madison’s statement: “A good government implies two th...
by Thomas Sowell • October 4, 1996 • Business & Money
With a new preface by the author, this reissue of Thomas Sowell's classic study of decision making updates his seminal work in ...
by Friedrich Hayek • September 3, 2012 • Politics & Social Sciences
With a new foreword by Paul Kelly
'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of pol...
by Larry McMurtry • November 10, 2000 • Literature & Fiction
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize- winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the...
by Paul Johnson • August 7, 2001 • History
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestselling history is now...
by Don Lavoie and Christopher Coyne • August 5, 2016 • Politics & Social Sciences
Can a “radical free-market” economy help to end poverty and militarism while avoiding the quagmire of central planning? Don Lav...
by Michael Polanyi • June 22, 2015 • Science & Math
The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideal...
by Michael Crichton • January 1, 2004 • Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.
In the jungles of Malaysia, a m...
by Tom Wolfe • March 4, 2008 • Humor & Entertainment
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York st...
by Matt Ridley • October 25, 2016 • Business & Money
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneo...
by Friedrich Hayek and W. W. Bartley III • August 28, 1991 • Politics & Social Sciences
Hayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues t...
by Amity Shlaes • May 27, 2008 • Politics & Social Sciences
In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretat...
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