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  • Discourses on Livy

    Niccolò Machiavelli
    $69.95
    "Discourses on Livy" is a book of political history that served as a foundational work of modern republicanism. Machiavelli writes an analysis of the first ten books of Livy's "History of Rome" which describe the rise and expansion of Rome. He also discusses what can be learned from many other […]
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

    The Epic of Gilgamesh

    $69.95
    Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's friendship with the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about human relationships, loss and grief, the confrontation with death, the destruction of nature, insomnia and restlessness, finding […]
  • On Classical Economics

    On Classical Economics

    Thomas Sowell
    $69.95
    The classical era in the history of economics is an important part of the history of ideas in general, and its implications reach beyond the bounds of the economics profession.  On Classical Economics by Thomas Sowell offers a perspective on both history and economics. It is not simply a tour of colorful […]
  • The Wealth of Nations 2 vol set

    The Wealth of Nations 2 vol set

    Adam Smith
    $139.95
    Although regarded as the first scientific treatise on economics, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations should be viewed in a larger context. The social philosopher, historian, moralist, and political scientist, Adam Smith, attempted to create in this great work a synthesis of ideas that would in […]
  • Orations of Cicero

    Orations of Cicero

    $69.95
    Cicero was perhaps the most famous orator in the history of Rome and the most influential on the founding fathers. This collection of his most important speeches includes his Orations against Cataline, in which he successfully thwarted a conspiracy against the Roman government. It also contains his Philippics, a defense […]
  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Gordon Wood - SIGNED
    $79.95
    In a grand and readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, Gordon Wood describes the events that made the American Revolution. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging […]
  • Alexander Hamilton

    Alexander Hamilton

    Ron Chernow
    $69.95
     Ron Chernow, whom The New York Times has called “as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we’ve seen in decades,” brings to life the man who was the principal designer of the federal government, the catalyst for the emergence of the two-party system, the patron saint of Wall Street, […]

  • Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 – 1706

    $69.95
    These narratives of witchcraft are no fairy tales. Weird though they seem to us, they were to thousands of men and women in seventeenth-century America the intensest of realities. They were the bulletins of a war more actual, more cruel, more momentous, than any fray of flesh and blood. Nor […]
  • Meditations

    Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

    $69.95
    Meditations, literally meaning in ancient Greek “that which is to himself,” is a collection of thoughts penned by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. A disciple of the Stoics, he recorded these musings throughout 12 books during his travels through his vast empire from 161-180 AD. Although expansive and containing many timeless dictums, the overarching message of his […]

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