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24 books with the same feel
Hide books by the same authorBeyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them
Robert B. Reich · 151 pages
Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.
The Vision Of The Anointed: Self-congratulation As A Basis For Social Policy
Thomas Sowell · 305 pages
This critique of failed social policies of the past 30 years sees what has happened not as isolated mistakes, but as the consequence of the tainted vision of the "anointed", leading to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies.
Reform or Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg · 64 pages
Summary:A polemic writing by the famous "Red Rosa" Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899) explains why capitalism can never overcome its internal contradictions. An effective refutation of revisionist interpretations of Marxist doctrine, it defines the position of scientific socialism on the issues of social reforms, the state, democracy, and the character of the proletarian revolution. Reform or
The New Imperialism
David Harvey · 264 pages
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism? What exactly is the r
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt · 256 pages
In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren · 352 pages
"Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing indictment
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
Martin Jacques · 699 pages
Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams · 256 pages
Cuentos Chinos: El engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América Latina
Andres Oppenheimer · 352 pages
Greedy Bastards: Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry
Dylan Ratigan · 245 pages
To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong--but join together to make it right.
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum · 400 pages
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges -- globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its patt
Broke : The Plan to Restore our Trust, Truth and Treasure
Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe
The Constitution of Liberty
Friedrich A. Hayek · 569 pages
"In this classic work Hayek restates the ideals of freedom that he believes have guided, and must continue to guide, the growth of Western civilization. Hayek's book, first published in 1960, urges us to clarify our beliefs in today's struggle of political ideologies"--P. [4] of cover.
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
Arianna Huffington · 276 pages
The ABCs of Socialism
Bhaskar Sunkara · 141 pages
"Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted--for the first time in decades and to the shock of many--a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late November found that a majority of Democrats
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer · 464 pages
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Bill Clinton · 208 pages
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Amy Chua · 346 pages
The New York Times bestseller. In the current affairs/globalisation tradition of Naomi Klein and Noreena Hertz; the most original contribution to the globalisation debate in years.Amy Chua's remarkable and provocative book explores the tensions of the post-Cold War globalising world. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations can turn ugly and violent. Chua
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
John R. Lott Jr. · 321 pages
The Law: The Classic Blueprint for a Free Society
Frederic Bastiat · 56 pages
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek · 166 pages
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] o
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
Neil Barofsky · 279 pages
In this account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In behind-the-scenes detail, he reveals proof of the extreme degree to which our government officials bent over backward to serve the interests of
Selected Writings
Karl Marx · 625 pages
Kenneth Winkler's deft abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised. His insightful introduction provides the reader with both a historical and a philosophical context in whic