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  • The Gauntlet

    A Challenge to the Myth of Progress

    by Arthur Penty, Dr. Peter Chojnowski ...
    Subtitled "A Challenge to the Myth of Progress," this collection includes selections from Old Worlds for New, Post-Industrialism, Towards a Christian Sociology, and Means and Ends. This first-ever anthology of Penty's works presents a compelling vision both of what's wrong with the world and of what kind of socio-economic order would help to make it right. The writings in this volume provide a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kenneth Minogue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Bourgeois Equality

    How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...
    How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Locke

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Dunn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Power

    A New Social Analysis

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Towards the Light

    The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

    by Professor A. C. Grayling ...
    The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of government and making possible the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women, and the idea ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Beyond Capitalism & Socialism

    A New Statement of an Old Ideal

    by John Sharpe ...
    Explaining the socio-economic theory of distributism, this anthology argues that political, economic, and social liberties and freedom are penalized under both socialism and capitalism. With distributism-and other "third way" alternatives to capitalism-the human person, the family, and the community take precedence over bureaucrats and barons. Society exists for man, not the other way around. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Authority and the Individual

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and deep understanding, he explores the formation and purpose of society, education, moral evolution and social, economical and intellectual progress. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Capitalism and the Historians

    by T. S. Ashton, Louis Hacker, W. H. Hutt, Bertrand de Jouvenel ...
    Essays by economic historians making the case that early factory workers benefited from the Industrial Revolution, despite its hardships and disruptions.The views generally held about the rise of the factory system in Britain derive from highly distorted accounts of the social consequences of that system—so say the distinguished economic historians whose papers make up this book.The authors offer ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Idea of a Christian Society

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    One of the twentieth century's great thinkers and writers explores what it means to incorporate Christian values into our worldly lives.Originally delivered in 1939 at Corpus Christi College, these three lectures by the renowned poet and playwright T. S. Eliot address the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems. With sincerity and intellectual rigor, the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aristocracy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Doyle ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us. This short introduction shows how ideas of aristocracy originated in ancient times, were transformed in the middle ages, and have only fallen ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Authority

    A Sociological History

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD