Western Philosophy
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The Origins Of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism (German Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft, i.e. Elements and origins of totalitarian rule) is a book by Hannah Arendt which classed Nazism and Stalinism as totalitarian movements. Its original title was to be 'The Burden of Our Times', and the move away from this may have helped to obscure the main thrust of the book, which is far from being a straightforward study of the Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianism it might appear.
Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
by Mao Tse-Tung
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known in the West as The Little Red Book, was published by the Government of the People's Republic of China from April 1964 until approximately 1976. As its title implies, it is a collection of quotations excerpted from Mao Zedong's past speeches and publications. The book's alternative title The Little Red Book was coined by the West for its pocket-sized edition, which was specifically printed and sold to facilitate easy carrying.
State and Revolution
by Lenin V I
The State and Revolution (1917), by Vladimir Lenin, describes the role of the State in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Capital
by Karl Marx
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great...
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Marx For Beginners /
by Rius
Translation of Marx para principiantes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-156).
The New Class
by Milovan Djilas
This classic by an associate of Yugoslavia's Tito created a sensation when it was published in 1957 because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system.
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky
The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going? is a book by the Russian Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky, published in 1937, analyzing and criticizing Stalinism and the post-Lenin development in the Soviet Union. Trotsky wrote the book during his exile in Norway. The book was originally translated into French by Victor Serge and its most notable English translation is by Max Eastman.
Revolution Of Everyday Life
by Raoul Vaneigem
The Revolution of Everyday Life is a 1967 book by Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian author, philosopher and former member of the Situationist International (1961-1970). In French the title of the work was more elaborate: Traité du savoir-vivre à l’usage des jeunes générations, or Treatise on Living for the Younger Generations. John Fullerton & Paul Sieveking, the first translators of the work into English, chose this alternative title.
The Ominous Parallels
by Leonard Peikoff
Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism. Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial ?truth,? the public good, doing one?s duty--these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the...
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Western Philosophy Books & Ephemera
A History Of Western Philosophy
by Russell, Bertrand
Originally published: London : George Allen & Unwin, 1946.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Life Of the Mind
by Arendt, Hannah
The author’s final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man’s mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. Edited by Mary McCarthy; Indices.
The Skillful Teacher (Second Edition)
by Brookfield, Stephen D
Jossey-Bass, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good.
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NZ$13.62
On the Logic of the Social Sciences
by Habermas, Jurgen
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xiv, 208pp+ index. Ink name on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket that is heavily sunned on the spine.
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NZ$42.56
Nietzsche: A Re-Examination
by Zeitlin, Irving M
Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 173pp+ index. Very good in publisher's wraps.
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NZ$25.53
The Modern Prince and Other Writings
by Gramsci, Antonio
NY: International Publishers, 1970. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 192pp. Foxing to edge of textblock, wraps tanned, else very good.
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NZ$42.56
![" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/300/192/1458192300.0.b.jpg)
" - 50 / Leninskoye Pravde [= Leninist "Truth" - 50 Years]
by , [= SATYUKOV, Pavel Alekseevich], ed
Moscow: Pravda, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (34cm). Blind-embossed rough red cloth; 376pp; illus. Moderate external rubbing and wear; lacking dustwrapper and slipcase, still Very Good. A history of the Soviet revolutionary newspaper "Pravda," 1912-1962, including hundreds of facsimiles and photographs. Text entirely in Russian.
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NZ$170.22
The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics
by Post, John F
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. 381pp+ index. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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NZ$25.53
Black and Conservative; the Autobiography of George S. Schuyler
by Schuyler, George S
New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1966. First ed. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine jacket in archival mylar./Near fine(+). 362 pages 22 cm. A very attractive copy. Memoirs of a conservative journalist and author who changed from socialism to conservatism. / "George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), an African-American author, journalist, and social commentator, earned acclaim for his critique of the racial and political spectrum of the United States during his time. Schuyler, originally from Rhode Island,...
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NZ$69.79
Wayland's Monthly. No. 67 - November, 1905
by WAYLAND, J.A. [ed]
Girard, KS: J.A. Wayland, 1905. First edition. 12mo; printed self-wrappers; 45,(3)pp. Mild aging; Very Good. Single issue of Wayland's uncommon socialist periodical. This bulk of this issue dedicated to a heavily revised abridgement of Karl Kautsky's "The Class Struggle" (1892) possibly done by Wayland himself and probably unauthorized. Other contributions by J.L. McCreery, Victor Gage Kimbert, and an editorial by Wayland. Prints the Socialist Party Platfom as adopted in May, 1904. Final three pages are...
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The Secret World of American Communism (Annals of Communism Series)
by Klehr, Harvey; Haynes, John Earl; Firsov, Fridrikh Igorevich
Yale University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. 2nd printing, near fine hardcover is tight and clean while showing bumping to edges and bottom corners and some other light trace wear includign small mark to front end paper, in near fine dust jacket that shows some light shelf wear and touch of wrinkle to bottom corners. 348 pages with a few illustrations. Still a pleasing copy of this popualr work that "..argues that the American Communist Party was involved in espionage and...
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NZ$20.43
Nietzsche and the Feminine
by Burgard, Peter J
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 125pp+ index. Small ink name on inside of front, spine a bit sunned, else very good in publisher's wraps.
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NZ$25.53
Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism. Political Statement of the Weather Underground
by Weather Underground
Boston: Friends of the Underground, 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Small quarto. 151pp. Spine trifle sunned, cover with a tiny stain and a tiny area of shallow abrasion, very good or better. One of 1,000 copies printed in Boston by Friends of the Underground in the same year as the first edition.
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NZ$340.44
Parmenides
by Heidegger, Martin
Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xi, 252pp. Small ink name on front free endpaper, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Text in German.
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NZ$59.58
Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939
by DOWNS, Laura Lee
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated in black and white. xiv, 329 pages. Tall 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1995). Review copy slip inserted. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$31.92
Stalinist Imperialism: The Social and Economic Forces Behind Russian Expansion
by HASS, Eric
New York: New York Labor News Company, 1950. Third Printing. Slim octavo (18.25cm); stapled wrappers; 60,[4]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. A pamphlet in which Stalinist Imperialism is "discussed and compared to the Nazi-Fascist brand, as well as to the imperialism of the western capitalist democracies. This pamphlet clears up the "mystery" of Russia's participation in the imperialist competition" (from introduction).
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NZ$25.53
Remembering: A Phenomenological Study
by Casey, Edward S
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 357pp+ index. Wraps slightly tanned, else very good. Small ink date on title page, else internally fine.
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NZ$59.58
Torn Out By The Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist
by [COMMUNISM - GULAGS] VITZTHUM, Hilda
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket; appears unread.
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NZ$34.04
Typed Letter Signed on personal stationery
by THOMAS, Norman (1884 - 1968)
New York, 1952. unbound. 1 page, 7.25 x 8.5 inches, New York, October 17, 1952. Written to prominent New York publisher Morton Lawrence regarding a particular political consideration: "...I am on record in so many articles and speeches concerning the danger of nominating a southerner for president or vice-president because of the race issue..." Natural folds; faint paperclip stain in the upper left corner; uneven toning on the bottom right corner. Very good(-) condition.<br/><br/>...
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NZ$212.78
Communism and the West...The Basic Conflicts
by BENNETT, John C.; Gregor Thompson, illus
New York: Church Peace Union, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's pale grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 30pp.; illus. Wrapper extremities a bit toned and very slightly rubbed, else Near Fine.
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NZ$51.07
Masters of Deceit
by Hoover, J. Edgar
Pocket Books, 1958. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$23.42
Fray Marcos de Mena (1a)
by IRIARTE, Hesiquio
Mexico City: Diaz de Leon y White, 1870. Primitivo Miranda. Lithograph. Image measures 14 1/2" x 10 1/2". Toning and chips to margins, repair to lower margin.<br/> <br/> This dramatic print depicts a scene from 16th century Mexico, illustrating an three-part historical account titled "Fray Marcos de Mena". A man is seen splayed across a bed, bleeding from wounds in his ribs and arms. A woman frantically ushers two men into the room, pointing to the man. Weapons and...
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Dokumenty vneshnei politiki SSSR. Tom 4. 19 marma 1921-31 dekabria 1921
by Gaponenko, L.S. et al, eds. (Soviet Union. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del)
Moskva: Izd-vo polit. lit-ry, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A very good clean unmarked copy.. 836 pp. Illus. with 1 folding map. In Russian. Ministry of Foreign Affairs USSR. Documents of Internal Politics in the USSR. March 19,1921-December 31, 1921. Volume IV.
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NZ$51.07
The Passing of the Gods
by Calverton, V.F
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, 320pp+ index. Offsetting to prelims, ink name on front pastedown, else a very good hardback in a chippe and darkened jacket that has a large spot of loss at the top of the front panel and a previous owner's small private library label at the foot of the spine.
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NZ$42.56
![[THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class Interests and the National Question]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/349/636/1391636349.0.b.jpg)
[THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class Interests and the National Question]
by Borochov, D.B
Kiev: Der hamer, 1917. 38, [2] pp. 21x14 cm. No covers. In a good condition, the lower inner corner chipped. Second edition of the major work by a leading member of the Labor Zionist movement, Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917). The first edition was published in Vilna in 1906. In 1900, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party but it didn't satisfy him in regards to the Jewish problems. Borochov sought to merge socialism and Zionism and was expelled from the RSDLP when he formed a Zionist...
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NZ$1,276.65
Northern America; British, Russian & Danish Possession in North America
by COLTON, J.H
New York, 1856. Map. Lithograph with full original coloring. 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches.<br/> <br/> Beautiful map of Canada shown as a British Colony. Forts, rivers, mountains and towns are noted throughout. Alaska is shown as 'Russian Possessions'. In good condition with some light toning and small chips to margins. The Colton family was one the most prolific and successful publishers of maps and atlases in the United States. J.H. Colton (1800-1893) founded his business in NYC in...
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NZ$170.22
The Search for Jimmy Carter.
by COLLINS, Tom. Signed by Jimmy Carter
Waco, TX: Word Publishing, 1976. Signed on the title page by Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Illustrated black and white wrappers. Near fine with wear to the corners. Uncommon signed by the former President.
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NZ$425.55
