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  • 101 Science Fiction Short Stories

    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • Amazing Tales Volume 1

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    Series series
    Embark on an unforgettable journey with "Amazing Tales Volume 1", a mesmerizing science fiction anthology that masterfully fuses heart-pounding adventures with profound explorations of identity, survival, and the vast mysteries of the cosmos. This captivating collection is your passport to a universe where every narrative unveils a new facet of the human spirit and imagination. Max Williams sets ... Read more

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  • Enlightenment Biopolitics

    A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens

    A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and circulated. He locates that context in the Enlightenment when emancipatory ideals sat alongside the horrors of colonialism, slavery, and race-based ... Read more

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    Dance with the Abyss

    A Diary of Descent

    Unabridged

    2 hours 10 min

    Dance with the Abyss is an unfiltered journey into the mind of Lachlan Holloway, a reclusive musician whose struggle with mental illness, isolation, and identity unfolds through diary-like confessions. Set against the backdrop of his own haunting compositions, Lachlan's story captures the depths of despair and the consuming nature of silence as he confronts an inner presence that seems to pull him ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

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  • The Time of Enlightenment

    Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One

    A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present.The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future ... Read more

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  • Five Ways of Being a Painting and Other Essays

    The Winners of the Third Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize

    A collection of essays by the winner and the five finalists of the prestigious Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize 2017Covering an array of subjects, from the meaning of art to supermarket shopping, these pieces were chosen for their originality, literary style, and above all, their ability to persuade. The judges awarded the first prize to “Five Ways of Being a Painting” by William Max Nelson for ... Read more

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  • The Terror of Natural Right

    Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, & the French Revolution

    by Dan Edelstein ...
    Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race"—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be ... Read more

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  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    An award-winning historian presents an absorbing account of the French mind, shedding light on France's famous tradition of intellectual lifeWhy are the French such an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? The French take pride in the fact that their history and culture have decisively shaped the values and ideals of the modern world. French ideas are no less distinct in ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Savants

    Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

    An illuminating study of the marriages and family lives of Diderot, Lavoisier, and other geniuses of the Age of Reason.We may imagine the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation—but in reality, the families of scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in ... Read more

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  • The Society of Equals

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD