The European Union: A Citizen's Guide
10 best books like The European Union: A Citizen's Guide (Christopher J. Bickerton): Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever, From Fatwa to Jihad, Rural Rides, ‘I Find That Offensive!’, The Story of Utopias, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume One: The Renaissance, The Intellectuals and The Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 1: Introductory Orientations
Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
| Author | Eden Medina |
| ISBN | 0262016494 |
In Cybernetic Revolutionaries, Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first was Chile's experiment with peaceful socialist change under Salvador Allende; the second was the simultaneous attempt to build a computer system that...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | Cass R. Sunstein |
| ISBN | 0465083331 |
In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace...
| Author | Kenan Malik |
| ISBN | 1843548232 |
(The English review is placed beneath Russian one)
Довольно интересная книга не о том, как мультикультурализм не сработал, а как сами европейцы прогнулись, забыв все свои...
| Author | William Cobbett |
| ISBN | 0140435794 |
Between 1821 and 1836 William Cobbett toured the southern English countryside by foot and on horseback, and Rural Rides is his remarkable account of what he saw. A prolific writer and journalist of genius, Cobbett matured into a radical left-wing politician, and a farmer who ensured his labourers...
| Author | Claire Fox |
| ISBN | 1849549818 |
When you hear that now ubiquitous phrase "I find that offensive," you know you're being told to shut up. Social discourse is now dominated by competitive offence-claiming. But how did we become so thin-skinned? This book blames three culprits: official multiculturalism's relativistic conflation...
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| ISBN | 0766127907 |
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. We have set utopia over against the world. As a matter of fact, it is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that make people dream of are those in which they finally live. The more that men react upon their...
| Author | Quentin Skinner |
| ISBN | 0521293375 |
This is NOT the sort of book that deserves to be skimmed. Due to external circumstances, though, I did not have a very long time to spend with it, and I had to read it much more quickly than I would have liked. I'd like to come back to it someday, but for now it's very possible that I missed important nuances here...
| Author | John Carey |
| ISBN | 0897335074 |
In this landmark study, John Carey analyzes the elitest views of some of the most highly respected literary icons of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book, as defined in his preface, "is about the response of the English literary intelligentsia to the new phenomenon of mass culture." Readers...
Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 1: Introductory Orientations
Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science & technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It's been acclaimed by specialists in both East & West & also by readers with wider & more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical...
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing...
| Author | Frank Furedi |
| ISBN | 0826490964 |
The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such figures as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public issues - we now have only facile pundits, think-tank apologists, and spin doctors. In the age of the knowledge...
Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient Greek and Roman literature so great?...
A magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War.
The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of...
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0881843318 |
WW II's abrupt end brought us many gifts, none stranger than the papers of the German State. These were captured virtually complete, and to this day give up secrets. One that emerges from Alan Moorehead's research is the extent to which Germany was involved in the Russian Revolution. The ironic result...
| Author | R.H. Tawney |
| ISBN | 1406724181 |
A recent discussion, with a Goodreads friend, of Western socio-economic history and the accompanying socio-economic thought brought to mind this gem of a book, read in my early college days and a germinal influence on my own thought. (In terms of its effect on my thinking, I'd actually rank it as one...
Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World
| Author | James Ball |
| ISBN | 1785902148 |
2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of U.S. President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues in their home...
A Brief History Of Philosophy: From Socrates To Derrida
| Author | Derek Johnston |
| ISBN | 0826490204 |
A fun, concise and attractive introduction to a fascinating and challenging subject. This is the ideal book for teenagers and students coming to philosophy for the first time, or indeed for anyone who just doesn't know where to start. The book examines 18 key thinkers, from Socrates to Derrida, exploring...
The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James's, 1932-1943
| Author | Ivan Maisky |
| ISBN | 0300180675 |
The terror and purges of Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection...
| Author | Roger Eatwell |
| ISBN | 0241312000 |
Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western...
The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
| Author | Joel Mokyr |
| ISBN | 0300124554 |
This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing...
| Author | Georges Lefebvre |
| ISBN | 0415253934 |
Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of...
'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening Standard
Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your...
| Author | Francis Spufford |
| ISBN | 0571214975 |
A brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.
The book contains chapters on the Beagle II, Elite - the 80s computer game, the Blue Streak missile, Concorde, mobile phone technology and the...
