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@Speakersacademy, How to build new World Order? VPRO UCU, https://t.co/g1MKLzEC7x https://t.co/J4qGZsqF8v

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Book Cover for: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Barrington Moore

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Barrington Moore
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In his classic study “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,” the political sociologist Barrington Moore wrote that an “independent nobility,” secure from the arbitrariness of the king’s tyranny, was an “essential ingredient in the growth of democracy.” 1

Paperback, 1993

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Harvard Classics, Charles W. Eliot

The Harvard Classics

Charles W. Eliot
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The Harvard Classics 180 Books voor 0,49 euro! Eliot, Charles W., Classics, Golden Deer, Milton, John, Plato, Franklin, Benjamin, Smith, Adam, Darwin, Charles, de Cervantes, Miguel, Virgil, Anonymous, Brothers, https://t.co/4sUAdiZiPe: Kindle Store https://t.co/ukxw7VdziC

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Book Cover for: The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World, Barry Gewen

The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World

Barry Gewen
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Dit boek kan ik iedereen aanraden. https://t.co/lORaRWYQvW: The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World: 9781324004059: Gewen, Barry: Books https://t.co/lKw8i5qk6O

Paperback, 2021

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lord Bacon's Essays, or Counsels Moral and Civil: 1, Francis Bacon

Lord Bacon's Essays, or Counsels Moral and Civil: 1

Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon schreef in 1625 zijn korte essay Of Studies met daarin de bekende zin: ‘Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: 1

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Book Cover for: The Harvard Classics: Volume I, Benjamin Franklin

The Harvard Classics: Volume I

Benjamin Franklin
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The Harvard Classics 180 Books voor 0,49 euro! Eliot, Charles W., Classics, Golden Deer, Milton, John, Plato, Franklin, Benjamin, Smith, Adam, Darwin, Charles, de Cervantes, Miguel, Virgil, Anonymous, Brothers, https://t.co/4sUAdiZiPe: Kindle Store https://t.co/ukxw7VdziC

Paperback, 2018

$29.99Member price:$29.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Book Cover for: The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano, Dan Moller

The Way of Bach: Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano

Dan Moller
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Dan Moller, 'The Way of Bach': 'The brilliance of Bach’s native tradition was to unite melody and harmony, the vertical and horizontal, in a way that no other tradition has ever really tried or shows any signs of trying again'

Hardcover, 2020

$27.95Member price:$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics, Jonathan Kirshner

An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics

Jonathan Kirshner
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Warm aanbeveolen! An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics: 186 (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics, 186) https://t.co/7IwGFWF1Fb #Amazon via @Amazon

Hardcover, 2022

$42.00Member price:$42.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)