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Niall Ferguson

Издател: Basic Books

This meaty, scholarly collection of essays by gifted historian Niall Ferguson tackles the controversial topic of counterfactual questions: What if Hitler had invaded Britain in WWII? What if JFK had survived his assassination? What if there had been no Gorbachev to usher in the collapse of Communism? What if there had been no American Revolution?

Ishac Diwan; Ken Kletzer

Издател: Working papers

John Blundell

Издател: The Institute of Economic Affairs

This paper discusses how "war of ideas" can be waged, using the authors's extensive experiance, both as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affears (IEA) and at other clasical liberal think tanks. John Blundell begins his stimulating collection of published essays, reviews and introductions by showing how thw founders of the IEA

Bruce D. Porter

Издател: The Free Press

Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state's monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and private associates to

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Издател: Modern Library

This novel has served as the inspiration for what has become, if not a genre, then at the very least a dominant sub-genre of science fiction. It is the first major dystopian novel, a precursor to George Orwell’s1984, Aldus Huxley’s Brave New World, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and its history, along with that of its author, eerily