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  • Bertrand Russell: A Political Life by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    Bertrand Russell: A Political Life

    Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. In this thorough examination, Alan Ryan tells the story of Russell's other life as social critic, polemical journalist, antiwar activist, sage...
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  • Cast a Cold Eye by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    Cast a Cold Eye

    Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exterior...
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  • John Dewey & the High Tide of American Liberalism by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    John Dewey & the High Tide of American Liberalism

    When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but universally acknowledged as his country's intellectual voice. Many things conspired to give Dewey an extraordinary intellectual eminence: He was immensely long-lived...
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  • John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

    When John Dewey died in 1952, he was memorialized as America's most famous philosopher, revered by liberal educators and deplored by conservatives, but universally acknowledged as his country's intellectual voice. Many things conspired to give Dewey an extraordinary intellectual eminence: He was immensely long-lived...
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  • Magpie by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    Magpie

    Fear and love in the Australian Outback.Jim Macken talks to trees. He dances around the fire and has made peace with the flies. In a bid to escape a mundane life, the broken-hearted Irish backpacker has gone walkabout in the West Australian Goldfields. The...
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  • On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Aristotle: Saving Politics from Philosophy

    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...
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  • On Augustine: The Two Cities by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Augustine: The Two Cities

    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 Europe but...
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  • On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against All

    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,...
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  • On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory

    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...
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  • On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian

    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...
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  • On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

    Praised widely upon hardcover publication, Alan Ryan's "masterpiece" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) blends history and philosophy to examine three thousand years of political thought. Drawing on three decades of research, Ryan insightfully traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to...
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  • On Tocqueville: Democracy and America by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    On Tocqueville: Democracy and America

    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...
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  • The Making of Modern Liberalism by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    The Making of Modern Liberalism

    One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal tradition The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in...
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  • The Reader's Companion to Alaska by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    The Reader's Companion to Alaska

    The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the...
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  • The Reader's Companion to Alaska by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    The Reader's Companion to Alaska

    The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly's footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the...
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  • The Reader's Companion to Ireland by Ryan, Alan
    Alan Ryan

    The Reader's Companion to Ireland

    This uniquely literate guide to the land and people of Eire features choice travel writing by Jan Morris, Richard Condon, Paul Theroux, Michael Crichton, and many others, dating from 1896 to the present. Introduction by the Editor. Map.Author: Alan RyanISBN-10: 015600559XISBN-13: 9780156005593Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage:...
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