Adam Gurri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Alasdair MacIntyreAdam Gurri@MikeTolhurst @GreenPlusAnE @CaseyMattox_ @MikeFeuz @lastpositivist My favorite MacIntyre book is Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, which completely undermines its own central thesis about shared languages when he actually looks at the intellectual environment Aquinas was writing in and what came right after.
Paperback, 2016
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Political Order in Changing Societies
Samuel P. HuntingtonAdam GurriIs Huntington's Political Order in Changing Societies still a respected work in political science circles?
Paperback, 2006
$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History
Ernest GellnerAdam Gurri@vgr IMO Ernest Gellner’s Plough, Sword, and Book tackles all this the best
Paperback, 1992
$34.00$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
Mark KoyamaAdam Gurri@SockJustSock @Sharon_Kuruvila Koyama and Rubin's How the World Became Rich is a good survey of the kind work (which includes not just economic historians' work but regular historians and also people like Jared Diamond/geographers etc) and the level of theoretical sophistication brought by many.
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on American Federalism
Martha DerthickAdam GurriI highly recommend @baseballcrank and others read, if they have not, Martha Derthick (a conservative) in Keeping the Compound Republic, which goes over the ways in which our federalism does NOT rely on Court enforcement, a thing which is highly unreliable, but on structure
Paperback, 2001
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Democracy
Charles TillyAdam Gurri“democratization always occurs in part as a result of contention and always generates extensive contention; a peaceful maturing into orderly democracy is a crippling myth.” -Charles Tilly, Regime and Repertoires
Paperback, 2007
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Joseph: 'His Arms Were Made Strong'
David C. SearleAdam Gurri10 thinkers who changed how I see the world. No order. 1. Deirdre McCloskey 2. Hans-Georg Gadamer 3. Charles Taylor 4. @jtlevy 5. F. A. Hayek 6. David Hume 7. Ernest Gellner 8. Joseph Heath 9. John Searle 10. @ttahko https://t.co/ac6hAqmQIb
Paperback, 2012
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877 1920
Stephen SkowronekAdam GurriStephen Skowronek, Building a New American State. Parties matter! https://t.co/1GqWSVtFxH
Paperback, 2002
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
Arend LijphartAdam Gurri@jbouie You may like this bit from Arend Lijphart’s Patterns of Democracy, which has lived rent-free in my head since I read it. The unpredictability of genuinely multiparty systems is good! https://t.co/dSzbzL4Tma
Paperback, 2012
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The History of England From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in 1688: In Eight Volumes: 3
David HumeAdam Gurri10 thinkers who changed how I see the world. No order. 1. Deirdre McCloskey 2. Hans-Georg Gadamer 3. Charles Taylor 4. @jtlevy 5. F. A. Hayek 6. David Hume 7. Ernest Gellner 8. Joseph Heath 9. John Searle 10. @ttahko https://t.co/ac6hAqmQIb
Paperback, 2018
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book