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Crimson Queen by Alan Robinson (Illustrator); Jonathan Maberry; Ryan Brown (Cover Design by)
Category: Fiction | Series: V-Wars Comics Ser.
New York Timesbest-selling author Jonathan Maberry takes you on a non-stop thrill ride of action, horror and suspense! Welcome to the V-WARS! These all-new tales chronicling the early days of the Vampire Wars offers the first salvo in the battle between humans and hundreds of new species of vampires! No ...Show more
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more
On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy, Alan Ryan examines Plato's most famous student and sharpest critic, whose writing has helped shape over two millennia of Western philosophy, science, and religion. The first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men, Aristotle w ...Show more
On Augustine: The Two Cities by Alan Ryan
Category: Culture | Series: Liveright Classics
It would be almost impossible to exaggerate the influence of Augustine—the once-hedonistic pagan turned ascetic theologian and defender of the early Christian Church—over all the subsequent history of Europe. Augustine ’s political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Eur ...Show more
On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All by Alan Ryan
Category: Culture | Series: Liveright Classics
In Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a “social contract” and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes, Alan Ryan explains how Hobbes created ...Show more
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic as a model for the modern Western ...Show more
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics a ...Show more
On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
When Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not enough; the point of politics a ...Show more
On Politics - A History of Political Thought from Herdotus to the Present by Alan Ryan
Category: History
This is a magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan Ryan. This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have gi ...Show more
On Politics - A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present by Alan Ryan
Category: History
A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan Ryan. This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to o ...Show more
On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Alan Ryan
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalog the unique features of the American social contract in his two-volume masterpiece, Democracy in America. Often th ...Show more