Political Theory
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Rules For Radicals
by Saul D Alinsky
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is the last book written by community organizer Saul D. Alinsky before his death in 1972. Published in 1971, it was Alinsky's attempt to impart his theory and methods of organizing to the current generation of young activists, largely drawing upon his own experiences. Alinsky wrote in the book's prologue: "What I have to say in this book is not the arrogance of unsolicited advice.
The Theory Of the Proletarian Revolution
by Vladimir Ilich, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Josef Stalin V Bystryansky and M Mishin Lenin
The Dominant Ideas Of the Nineteenth Century and Their Impact On the State Vol 2
by Jbozsef; Jones, D Mervyn Ehtvhos
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Counterrevolution and Revolt
by Marcuse, Herbert
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in the United States in 1934. Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California, San Diego, where he met Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss as graduate students. He is the author of numerous books, including One-Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilization.
In the Name of Identity
by Maalouf, Amin
Arcade Press, 2001. First North American Edition. Hardcover. Good.
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A$15.49
Civil Society. Old Images, New Visions
by Keane, John
Cambridge: Polity Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. 201 pages. This book looks at the distinction bewteen civil society and the state and the views of politicians, business leaders, academics, relief agencies and citizen's organisations. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$20.00
Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
by Marx, Karl; Torr, Dona (editor)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. grey cloth. xxxi, 882 pp. Spine tilted, toning to edges of boards. Light rubbing to extremities. Foxing to edges of text block. Light soiling to gutter of front endpapers. Interior age toned. Dust jacket is age toned, foxed, rubbed to extremities, a few short tears, long tear to foot of front cover.
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CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES. In Three Volumes. The Fifth Edition. [First Baskerville Edition]
by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Three volume set, fifth edition, first Baskerville edition. Printed 1773. Three quarter bound with marbled endpapers. Text is foxed and mottled with signs of water damage. Volume I: 376pp, front cover is completely detached; back cover is loose at hinge and part of spine missing (as shown). Volume II: 444pp, front and back covers completely detached and part of spine missing (as shown). Volume III: 416pp, front and back covers loose at hinge and part of spine missing (as shown). Price reflects condition...
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A$333.12
Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
by Schmitt, Carl
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. lii, 70 pp. Spine sunned. Pencil notations to inside rear cover and sporadically in text. Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.
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A$28.36
Masters of Chinese Political Thought : From the Beginnings to the Han Dynasty
by de Grazia, Sebastian (Edited by)
New York: The Viking Press. 1973. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners and spine slightly faded. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Preface by Frederick W. Mote. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xiv, 430 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover.
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A$28.00
Theories of Imperialism
by Mommsen, Wolfgang J
University of Chicago Press, 1982. Paperback. Good. Some writing on facing page.
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Politics for a Rational Left
by Hobsbawm, Eric
Verso, 1989. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. Political Writings 1977 to 1988
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A$54.23
LEVIATHAN AND ITS ENEMIES
by Francis, Samuel T & Jerry Woodruff & Paul E Gottfried
Radix. As New in As New dust jacket. 2016. Second Printing. Hardcover. Thick Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 794 pages .
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A$85.22
World Ethics The New Agenda (Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics)
by Dower, Nigel
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1998. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 214 pages. Presented in two parts: Part I. Theories; Part II. Applications. . 1st thus. Trade Paperback.
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A$18.00
The Return of the Political
by Mouffe, Chantal
Verso, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. As New.
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A$46.48
French Political Thought in the 19th Century
by Soltau, Roger Henry
New York: Russell & Russell. 1959. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Light marking to fore edge. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 500 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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A$18.00
Political Theory, Modernity and Postmodernity
by Rengger, N.J
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 1995. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent, as new, copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 253 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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A$25.00
Telos: No. 5, Spring, 1970
by Piccone, Paul, ed
Amherst, NY: Telos, 1970. Magazine. 220p., 6x8.75 inches, wraps lightly worn and soiled else good condition. "A quarterly journal of radical social theory". Founded by Paul Piccone (1940-2004) in 1968 while a doctoral student in philosophy at the State University of New York, Buffalo. After earning his doctorate in 1970, he moved to St. Louis for a teaching job, then moved to New York City after not getting tenure. With Piccone as editor, and a number of fellow Buffalo philosophy graduate students and...
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The Idea of Civil Society
by Seligman, Adam B
Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1995. Very Good+ condition - Card Covers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 241 pages. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being revived to provide an answer to the question of how individuals can pursue their own interests while preserving the greater good of society and, similarly, how society can advance the interests of the individuals who comprise it. However, as Seligman shows,...
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Telos: No. 82, Winter 1989-90
by Piccone, Paul, ed
New York, NY: Telos Press Ltd, 1989. Paperback. 205p., wraps, 5.75x8.5 inches, very good condition. "A quarterly journal of critical thought". Founded by Paul Piccone (1940-2004) in 1968 while a doctoral student in philosophy at the State University of New York, Buffalo. After earning his doctorate in 1970, he moved to St. Louis for a teaching job, then moved to New York City after not getting tenure. With Piccone as editor, and a number of fellow Buffalo philosophy graduate students and others serving...
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From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics. Putting Practice First.
by Blattberg, Charles:
-Oxford University Press, 2000-. First edition. xiii+294 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics. Putting Practice First. oxbridge 0198296886
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Social Revolutions in the Modern World
by Skocpol, Theda
Cambridge University Press, 1995. Paperback. As New.
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A$6.20
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Democracy and Liberty [2 vols]
by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. New Edition. Orig. burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind device to boards. lxxiii, 568; xix, 601 pp. Spines sunned and tilted. Rubbing to extremities. Damp stain to the lower fore edge of text block of Vol. II. Bookseller ticket of B.H. Blackwell, Oxford. Pencil ownership inscriptions to half-titles.
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A$141.80
How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
by Monbiot, George:
-Verso (2016)-. First edition first impression 2016. x+342 pages. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. 'Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be grown, but it will not reach the mouths of the poor. New medicines will be developed, but they will be...
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The God that Failed: Six Studies in Communism
by Koestler, Arthur, Ignazio Silone, Andre Gide (presented by Enid Starkie), Richard Wright, Louis Fishcher, Stephen Spender
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 272 pp. Spine cocked. Ex libris and ink ownership inscription. Lightly age toned to interior.
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A$56.72
Politics: The Master Science
by Wiseman, Victor
New York: Pegasus, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. Full red paper boards. ix, 105 pp. Tiny spots of staining to spine head. Dust jacket is price clipped, moderately soiled, torn at spine foot and top edge of front cover. Politics: The Master Science is an exploration of the world of the political scientist and an informal introduction to politics as both a practical art and an academic discipline.
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A$39.70
Labor of Dionysus
by Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri
University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Paperback. As New.
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A$69.72
The Power Elite and the State: How Policy is Made in America
by Domhoff, G. William
Hawthorne, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1990. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Social Institutions and Social Change Series. Soft cover. xix, 315 pp. Fine. This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C. Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America than those of Mills' opponents. Dr. Domhoff shows how and why coalitions within the power elite have inovlved themselves in such policy issues as the Social Security Act and the Employment Act, and how the...
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A$45.38
A Short History of Communism
by Harvey, Robert
New York: Thomas Dunne Books. 2004. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Sticker to front free endpaper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 422 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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A$25.00
