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Mill's On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Available on: Audio Download ($12.00) | Audio CD
Mill's thinking about freedom in civic and social life examines fundamental principles shared among conservative, liberal, and radical politicians.
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The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust
by Thomas F. Madden
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
Esteemed university professor and best-selling author Thomas F. Madden presents an intriguing series of lectures based on a fascinating premise: that the United States has more in common with the rising Roman Republic than with the declining Roman Empire.
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Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
by Plato
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD
These four dialogues present the trial, the imprisonment, and the execution of Socrates who his friend Phaedo said was “the wisest, best, and most righteous person I have ever known.”
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The Founding Documents of the United States of America
by Thomas Jefferson
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95)
LearnOutLoud.com is proud to present this audio collection entitled The Founding Documents of the United States of America. These documents represent key points in the founding of the U.S. government.
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The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Available on: Audio Download ($12.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Machiavelli lived in Renaissance Italy in a time marked by violent hatred between the Italian city-states.
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Kant's Foundations of Ethics
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Audio Download ($12.00)
Three works that present Kant’s ethical world view are included: What is Enlightenment? (1784), Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals Morals (1785), and Toward Lasting Peace (1795).
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Kant's "Toward Lasting Peace"
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Audio Download ($4.00)
Kant’s "Toward Lasting Peace" is best known for the idea of a league of nations that could bring “an end to all hostilities,” but what is most important is its ability to probe fundamental principles.
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense
by Glenn Beck
Available on: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD ($15.99)
In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems.
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Political Philosophy
by Grahame Lock
Available on: Audio Download ($33.50)
This audio course examines the major periods in the history of Western political thought and questions the political and social order.
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Political Theory: The Classic Texts and Their Continuing Relevance
by Joshua Kaplan
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
This exciting course introduces vital works of political theory from history's greatest minds.
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Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.
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Politics
by Aristotle
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
Although over two millennia old, Aristotle’s Politics remains central to the perplexing questions posed in the study of political science.
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Available on: Audio Download ($13.99)
Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831...
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Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society
by Fred E. Baumann
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)
With the characteristically human abilities to reason and imagine comes, apparently inevitably, the longing for imaginary but plausible places and conditions where everything is exactly as it should be and all our needs and desires are satisfied, including the need not to be jaded by satisfaction.
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Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($28.98)
Written in 1791 as a response to Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France, Thomas Paines Rights of Man is a seminal work on human freedom and equality.
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The Future of Freedom
by Fareed Zakaria
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
American democracy is, in many people's minds, the model for the rest of the world....
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All You Want to Know: The United States Constitution
Available on: Audio Download ($13.24) | Audio Cassette
The United States Constitution presents and explains the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to the Constitution in a way you've never experienced before...
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Communism
by Richard Pipes
Available on: Audio Download ($17.49)
From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
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The Case for Democracy
by Natan Sharansky
Available on: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them.
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Magna Carta
by iMinds Audio
Available on: Audio Download ($1.00)
Learn the history of the Magna Carta with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series.
iMinds brings knowledge to your MP3 with 8 minute information segments to broaden your mind.
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