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  • The Politics of Petulance

    America in an Age of Immaturity

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or whom he's attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels of the first: How on earth do we get out of this?Alan Wolfe has an answer. In The Politics of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Future of Liberalism

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America’s leading scholars, hailed by one critic as “one of liberalism’s last and most ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Political Evil

    What It Is and How to Combat It

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world.In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush to help the victims. Evil shows its face and we are ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • An Intellectual in Public

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    Series series Contemporary Political And Social Issues
    A new collection of essays from one of the most courageous and honest thinkers writing today". . . proof that the spirit of the free-ranging public intellectual is still very much alive."-Newsday"Alan Wolfe is one of liberalism's last and most loyal sons. His mind is naturally decent and diversified; large enough and fair enough to contain both conviction and doubt. His profound respect for real ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • At Home in Exile

    Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    An eloquent, controversial argument that says, for the first time in their long history, Jews are free to live in a Jewish state—or lead secure and productive lives outside itSince the beginnings of Zionism in the twentieth century, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to validate life in the Diaspora. Jews in Europe and America faced “a life of pointless struggle and futile ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Does American Democracy Still Work?

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    Series series The Future of American Democracy Series
    The past few decades have brought a shift in the nature of American democracy-an alarming shift that threatens such liberal democratic values as respect for pluralism, acceptance of the separation of powers, and recognition of the rights of opposition parties. In this insightful book, political scientist Alan Wolfe identifies the current political conditions that endanger the quality of our ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Spiritual Universe

    One Physicist's Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self

    by Fred Alan Wolf ...
    From a National Book Award winner, "methodical and clear . . . provides physics-phobics a wide bridge to understanding some often arcane material" ( Booklist).Why do we believe in the soul? Does it actually exist? If so, what is it? Does it differ from the self? Does it survive the body after death? In The Spiritual Universe, Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gems

    by Alan De Wolfe ...
    Ron Tracer, Eli Whitewater and Jeannie again find themselves in hot water resulting from Tracers new interest in gemstones.The sparkly baubles of corundum and carbon manage to get not only his attention, but those malefactors who know the value of a carat.Jeannie is kidnapped and taken to Sri Lanka, but there is much more to this story of intrigue and deception.Astounding wealth awaits the one who ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Return to Greatness

    How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great.Wolfe castigates both conservatives and liberals for opting for small-mindedness over greatness. Liberals, who at their best ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

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    The Politics of Petulance

    America in an Age of Immaturity

    by Alan Wolfe ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    In The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe argues the core of our problem isn't Trump himself—it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Attack of the Koto Maru

    by Alan De Wolfe ...
    Greed had always driven Prince Ranar of the Pacific nation of Moolong. He recently acquired the technology to build nuclear weapons on his other island, the fortress island of Catena, while many miles to the south in the same chain, the peaceful residents of Timano Island kept a secret no intelligence agency had ever guessed. From the close of WW II to this day, the Japanese sailors who had ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Power Elite

    by C. Wright Mills ...
    First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook