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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
$79.95Justice on Trial, the definitive insider's account of Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court, is based on extraordinary access to more than one hundred key figures—including the president, justices, and senators—in that ferocious political drama.The Supreme Court has become the arbiter of our nation's most vexing and divisive disputes. […] -
Reformations
$69.95Reformations is a lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion. This survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention […] -
The Anatomy of Melancholy
$69.95The Anatomy of Melancholy is a patchwork quilt of almost half-a-million words of miscellaneous learning, an inexhaustible quarry of quotations, a rambling, often irrelevant, irregularly systematised commentary on the human comedy, always excessive and overspilling. It is the life work of a melancholy philosopher who in spite of his depression […] -
Omnipotent Government
$69.95“With human nature as it is, the state is a necessary and indispensable institution. The state is, if properly administered, the foundation of society, of human cooperation and civilization. It is the most beneficial and most useful instrument in the endeavors of man to promote human happiness and welfare. But […] -
Dante: The Story of His Life
$69.95Marco Santagata's Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast body of Italian scholarship on Dante's medieval world, untangles a complex web of family and political relationships, and shows how the composition of the Commedia was […] -
The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush
$69.95Benjamin Rush was, clearly, an exceptional individual, graduating from Princeton at the tender age of 14. Growing to manhood in a tumultuous time, where everyone was called upon to examine and decide their allegiance, Rush early on exercised both discernment and commitment. The firmness with which he held his views […] -
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
$64.95In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost […] -
That One Should Disdain Hardships
$64.95Musonius Rufus, a Stoic philosopher from the first century C.E., was one of the most influential teachers of his era in imperial Rome. Alongside Stoics like Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, he emphasized ethics in action, displayed in all aspects of life. Merely learning philosophical doctrine and listening to lectures, […] -
Julius Caesar
$64.95Julius Caesar was one of the ablest generals of any era, who left accounts of his own campaigns that have rarely been surpassed in literary quality. At the same time, he was a politician and statesman who eventually took supreme power in the Roman Republic and made himself a monarch […] -
The Dead Sea Scrolls Trial
$69.95"It’s hard to imagine a copyright law suit over a 2000-year-old letter. But this fascinating book is about a letter written just before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the leader of a small Jewish sect that lived in desert caves south of Jericho. The letter, written […] -
A Vindication of Natural Society
$64.95Best known as the author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke’s first work was A Vindication of Natural Society (1756). Published anonymously, it parodied the writing of Bolingbroke, a monarchist politician and Tory leader who rejected the dogmas and institutions of the church in favor of “natural” religion. […] -
The Invention of News
$64.95Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first […]
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4 volume American History Collection
$249.95This 4 volume collection includes the following American History works by Gordon Wood: The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Signed by Gordon Wood) - won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970 Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Signed by Gordon […] -
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
$64.95Throughout his political and literary career, Burke opposed the “arbitrary exercise of power” and “denial of justice,” warning against the dangers of absolute power. He championed “the cause of the unfortunate” and “never had feared to attack the powerful, or to defend the weak, or to oppose to established interests […] -
The Ideal Element in Law
$64.95Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he criticized virtually every modern mode of interpreting the law because he believed the administration of justice had lost its grounding and recourse to enduring ideals. These […] -
In Defense of Freedom
$69.95When it first appeared in 1962, In Defense of Freedom was hailed by Richard M. Weaver as "a brilliant defense of the primacy of the person" and an effective "indictment of statism and bureaucratism." Meyer examines the tension between the freedom of the person and the power of social institutions. […]
