The beautiful and damned

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The Federalist Papers

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America "The Federalist Papers" had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed by Thomas Jefferson as 'the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written' "The Federalist Papers" make a powerful case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution that has endured largely unchanged for two hundred years.[]

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The Prince (AD Classic Library Edition)

Machiavelli draws on his extensive historical knowledge and experience as a statesman to examine the reasons that Kings Emperors Dukes and governments have thrived or crumbled while highlighting the principles that guided them. In each case Machiavelli suggests a set of principles that any leader would find difficult to follow but impossible to ignore. The Prince has had a profound influence on political thought over the past 500 years so much so that the term 'Machiavellian' is used to describe one who deceives and manipulates others. This is likely derived from Machiavelli's view that "it is often necessary to act against mercy against faith against humanity against frankness against religion in order to preserve the state." Machiavelli continues to provide an understanding of how world leaders think and why certain decisions are made. A must read for the politically inclined and those interested in world events and the affairs of state.[]

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Manifesto of the Communist Party

Ironically The Communist Manifesto first published in 1848 for the Communist League had little influence in its own day. Only after Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' other writings had made their views on socialism widely known did it become a standard text. For nearly century it was one of the most widely read - some would argue misread - texts in the world. Manifested in vivid prose the Manifesto continues to irk the capitalist world lingering as an eerie specter even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. Certainly the aim here is not create converts. Instead it is to help readers probe the writing with its distinct point of view so that we might understand the political and historical significance of the text while still maintaining a stance that allows us to think critically about the subject and form our own opinions.[]

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life death and hope in a Mumbai undercity

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great unequal cities.
 
In this brilliantly written fast-paced book based on three years of uncompromising reporting a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
 
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport and as India starts to prosper Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck her sensitive beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians like Kalu a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
 
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion caste sex power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so too are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
 
With intelligence humor and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds and into the lives of people impossible to forget.[]

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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust while learning compassion and love for her fellow human beings. Nonna's writings tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl born into a family that had known wealth and privileges was exposed to the concentration camps and learned the value of human life and the importance of forgiveness.[]

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Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

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