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Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation:...

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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of...

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Dynasty: A Very Short Introduction

For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadershi...

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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individ...

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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

We are living through a crisis of distraction. Plans get sidetracked, friends are ignored, work neve...

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What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems

In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls...

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Revolution Today

Susan Buck-Morss highlights new forms of international solidarity and revolutionary subjectivity tha...

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Failure

Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems...

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Identity Politics in the United States

In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much pr...

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Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said

Edward W. Said discusses the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of cul...

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Waging Insurgent Warfare: Lessons from the Vietcong to the Islamic State

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world. In fact, most mode...

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The Six Secrets of Intelligence: What Your Education Failed to Teach You

Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely u...

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How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century

In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive...

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How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven PinkerWhat is truly at...

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Authority: Construction and Corrosion

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-...

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