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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 6,965 ratings — published 1998
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 385,587 ratings — published 1532
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,019 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,241 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 110,340 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 63,787 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,445 ratings — published 2011
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 14,970 ratings — published 1951
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,470 ratings — published 2013
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 4,951 ratings — published 2014
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,262 ratings — published 1990
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 11,253 ratings — published 2011
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 200,345 ratings — published 1848
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 66,639 ratings — published 2012
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 16,480 ratings — published 1983
Democracy in America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,147 ratings — published 1835
The Art of War (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 576,373 ratings — published -500
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,421 ratings — published 2009
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 278,023 ratings — published 2020
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
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avg rating 4.43 — 26,799 ratings — published 1982
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
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avg rating 4.31 — 27,327 ratings — published 2016
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 37,226 ratings — published 1975
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 27,167 ratings — published 2011
Leviathan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 53,387 ratings — published 1651
On Palestine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 13,209 ratings — published 2015
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 15,539 ratings — published 1776
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 40,810 ratings — published 2009
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,215 ratings — published 2023
Gods of Corruption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2015
Poor But Spirited in Karimnagar: Field Notes of a Civil Servant (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 64 ratings — published 2012
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,743 ratings — published 2021
The Culture of Power and Governance in Pakistan (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 56 ratings — published 2010
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,230 ratings — published 1988
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 9,621 ratings — published 2002
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 34,750 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 24,763 ratings — published 1988
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India (Modern South Asia)
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avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,404 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,574 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,345 ratings — published 2018
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 82,601 ratings — published 2015
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
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avg rating 4.43 — 24,225 ratings — published 2002
State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 683 ratings — published 2004
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,249 ratings — published 2016
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 5,098 ratings — published 2013
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 4,982 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 114,803 ratings — published 2016
Not Just an Accountant: The Diary of the Nation's Conscience Keeper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,046 ratings — published 2014
The Burden of Democracy (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 379 ratings — published 2003
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 95,142 ratings — published 2008
“No matter how an individual views Satan, whether they believe that he is a real character or that he is just the product of literary scholars and imaginations, no one can deny that each one of us has an aspect of the devil within us. By studying the character and nature of Satan, we learn about ourselves; and the more we know about ourselves, the better we can fight our own personal demons—metaphorical or otherwise—in order to create a better tomorrow”
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“We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.”
― Binding Chaos
― Binding Chaos











