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Persuasions and Prejudices: An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science, 1953-1988

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9780887382611 | Transaction Pub, January 1, 1989, cover price $55.95

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9781412862899, titled "Persuasions and Prejudices: An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science 1953-1988" | Transaction Pub, June 30, 2016, cover price $49.95

The War Game: Studies of the New Civilian Militarists

Product Description: War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of military circles, we have come up against the phenomenon of the "robotization" of human life...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz and Howard G. Schneiderman (introduced by)

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9781412851817 | Expanded edition (Transaction Pub, September 5, 2013), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life.

Hannah Arendt Â Eine Radikal-konservative

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9783110320039, titled "Hannah Arendt â Eine Radikal-konservative" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, May 15, 2012, cover price $42.00

Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative

Product Description: Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Writing about Hannah Arendt is an exercise in the biographic intersecting with the academic...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412846028 | Transaction Pub, March 8, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century intellectual life.

Legal Education and Public Policy

Product Description: In spite of a cascade of criticism launched against the social sciences, they have brought a qualitative improvement in method and theory to the study of human beings and human relations. In the process of developing now commonplace foundations of social research few individuals have exercised a greater role in justifying and enriching social scientific thought and practice than Harold D...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by) and Harold D. Lasswell

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9781412842877 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, March 2, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In spite of a cascade of criticism launched against the social sciences, they have brought a qualitative improvement in method and theory to the study of human beings and human relations.

Culture and Civilization: Religion in the Shadows of Modernity

Product Description: Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life. The nineteenth-century imagery of "warfare" between science and religion is long dismissed...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (editor)

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9781412846219, titled "Culture & Civilization: Religion in the Shadows of Modernity" | Transaction Pub, December 31, 2011, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Debates on the meaning of religious belief in an advanced technological age have established the emergence of religion as a fact of daily life.

The American Scholar Reader

Product Description: To celebrate The American Scholarâs thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412842952 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, January 11, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: To celebrate The American Scholarâs thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years.

Daydreams and Nightmares

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412845892 | 2 expanded edition (Transaction Pub, September 30, 2011), cover price $29.95

Culture & Civilization: Globalism

Product Description: Starting with the premise that there's only one chance to make a good impression, How to Write a Business Plan covers all the issues involved in producing a business plan â from profiling competitors and forecasting market development, to the importance of providing clear and concise financial information...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (editor)

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9781412842389 | Transaction Pub, January 15, 2011, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Starting with the premise that there's only one chance to make a good impression, How to Write a Business Plan covers all the issues involved in producing a business plan â from profiling competitors and forecasting market development, to the importance of providing clear and concise financial information.

Publishing As a Vocation: Studies of an Old Occupation in a New Technological Era

Product Description: The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication. Publishers are now part of the astonishing transformation of the slow to the instant. From twitters to bloggers, the communication of ideas can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes, not weeks, months, or even years...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412811101 | Transaction Pub, August 31, 2010, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication.

Ideology and the Ideologists

Product Description: The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the ideological mode of thought? What leads young intellectuals to search for an ideology? What accounts for the changes in ideological fashion over time and nation, and shifts from one set of philosophical tenets to another? Who indeed are the ""intellectuals?"" Studies of ideology have tended to range themselves for or against particular viewpoints, or have concerned themselves with defining perspectives...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412814423 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 2010, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The revival of ideology, which began early in the second half of the last century, has led to reconsideration of the following questions: What underlies the pattern of the rise and decline of the ideological mode of thought?

Reflections of a Wondering Jew

Product Description: Much as he considered himself a philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen was also immersed in the machinery of social life. From his first years of "engagement" as a volunteer teacher in Thomas Davidson's school for working-class people, to his last as professor of philosophy at New York's City College and at the University of Chicago, he constantly sought to understand the underlying assumptions of human behavior...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412814447 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, May 1, 2010), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Much as he considered himself a philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen was also immersed in the machinery of social life.

Culture and Civilization: Beyond Positivism and Historicism

By Irving Louis Horowitz (editor)

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9781412814539 | Transaction Pub, March 1, 2010, cover price $40.95

Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason: The Social Theories of Georges Sorel With a Translation of His Essay on the Decomposition of Marxism

Product Description: Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance.Â A study of how radical thought modifies its actions and ideologies in a time of unrealized and frustrated expectations, the focus is on Georges Sorel and the Europe of the fin de siÃ¨cle, a time when socialist revolution was forcefully set aside by liberal reform...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9780415552851 | 1 edition (Routledge, February 9, 2009), cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance.

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9780415557795, titled "Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason: The Social Theories of Georges Sorel With a Translation of His Essay on "The Decomposition of Marxism": Golden Anniversary Edition" | Routledge, December 25, 2009, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance.

Culture & Civilization 2009

Product Description: Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are not words that represent an unmitigated good, nor for that matter, do they exhaust what is new in the human condition...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (editor)

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9781412810654 | Transaction Pub, August 31, 2009, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society.

The Imperial Republic: The United States and the World 1945-1973

Product Description: The Imperial Republic based as it is on Raymond Aron's realist philosophy, is involved only indirectly or by implication in the disputes about moralism, revisionism, and even imperialism. Its main aim is to account for the diplomacy of the United States as it was in a special time period...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412810791 | Transaction Pub, August 31, 2009, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The Imperial Republic based as it is on Raymond Aron's realist philosophy, is involved only indirectly or by implication in the disputes about moralism, revisionism, and even imperialism.

Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason (Routledge Revivals): The Social Theories of Georges Sorel With a Translation of His Essay on the Decomposition of Marxism

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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Miscellaneous:

9780203871300 | Routledge, July 15, 2009, cover price $131.00

The Vested Interests

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By Thorstein Veblen

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9781110630271 | Bibliolife, June 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | also contains The Vested Interests | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781110630264 | Bibliolife, June 30, 2009, cover price $22.75 | also contains The Vested Interests | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

9780765808653 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, October 1, 2001), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Veblen's classic position on social status is intertwined with his interest in economic class and the political prospects of that class.

Metaphor and History: The Western Idea of Social Development

Product Description: The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412808781 | Transaction Pub, March 31, 2009, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development.

The Theory and Practice of Philosophy

Product Description: There is an historical element throughout philosophy. As Edel notes, this is always in the context of problems, so emphasis will fall on the major objective of reflective analysis of ideas. The major objective of Edel's analysis in The Theory and Practice of Philosophy is the fundamental interrelatedness of problems of method, metaphysics, and value...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412808224 | Transaction Pub, October 31, 2008, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: There is an historical element throughout philosophy.

The Long Night of Dark Intent: A Half Century of Cuban Communism

Product Description: The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412808798 | Transaction Pub, August 31, 2008, cover price $55.95 | About this edition: The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come.

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9781412842242 | Transaction Pub, May 16, 2011, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come.

THE LONG NIGHT OF CUBAN COMMUNISM: The Castro Epoch in Hemispheric Context 1956-2008

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412808057 | Transaction Pub, August 30, 2008, cover price $49.95

Los anarquistas

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9788420615745, titled "Los anarquistas / Anarchists" | Poc edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007), cover price $19.95

The Idea of War and Peace: The Experience of Western Civilization

Product Description: Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression. In examining the main currents in modern social theory, the author has gone directly to the works of the leading philosophic figures...read more

By Irving Louis Horowitz

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9781412806336 | 3 edition (Transaction Pub, March 31, 2007), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression.

Assassin: Theory And Practice of Political Violence

By J. Bowyer Bell and Irving Louis Horowitz (introduced by)

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9781412805094 | Transaction Pub, October 25, 2005, cover price $30.95

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