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The Suffragette Derby
Biteback Publishing 2013; US$ 24.78On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the... more...
Nietzsche
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99This accessible introduction to the philosopher Nietzsche's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings. It also explodes the many misconceptions fostered in the century years since Nietzsche wrote, prophetically "Do not, above all, confound me with what I am not!" more...
The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11An authoritative and accessible guide to the most controversial composer in history. more...
The Great Philosophers:Schopenhauer
Orion 2011; US$ 9.96Schopenhauer 1788 ? 1860 Western philosophy?s most profound and unrelenting pessimist, Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he thrilled to the beauties of music and art. How did such deep bleakness and such sublime enthusiasm come to coincide in one man, one mind? Only by squaring... more...
Social security and its discontents
Cato Institute 2004; US$ 17.00Social Security is the largest government program in the world. But it is also a deeply troubled one, on the verge of financial collapse. Within 15 years, Social Security will begin running a deficit. Overall, the program is more than $26 trillion in debt. more...
The Poverty of Welfare
Cato Institute 2003; US$ 11.00Citing the failure of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, a pubic policy research foundation dedicated to traditional American principles of limited government and individual liberty, argues that the American welfare system should be dis more...
Leviathan on the Right
Cato Institute 2007; US$ 12.00For conservatives generally and the Republican Party in particular, now is a time of intense soul-searching. For the first time in a dozen years, Republicans have lost control of Congress. As a result, they are being forced to reexamine who they are and what they stand for. It?s about time. After all, more than a decade has passed since President Bill... more...
Leviathan on the Right
Cato Institute 2007; US$ 8.99Despite an ostensibly conservative Republican president and republican control of Congress, government is bigger and more intrusive than ever. That is not by accident; it is the conscious aim of a new brand of conservatism that seeks, not to reduce the size of government, but to use big government for conservative ends. This book shows how the Bush... more...
Healthy Competition
Cato Institute 2005; US$ 9.95America's healthcare system is ata crossroads, faced with rising costs, quality concerns, and a lack of patient control. Some blame market forces. Yet many troubles can be traced directly to pervasive government influence: entitlements, tax laws, and costly regulations. Consumer choice and competition deliver higher quality and lower prices in other... more...









