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This book examines and compares the concept of justice from the French philosopher Albert Camus and the American philosopher John Rawls.

This book is a study of the state of American women in the late 1970s, done through the examination of one of its most popular television shows, Charlie's Angels, and uses one of the stars of the show, Cheryl Ladd, as a character example and representation of a typical woman television star of that era. 

This book investigates why competition as an American cultural value has gained general acceptance in the society and the dynamic between leaders and followers that creates this.

This book examines important themes about American politics the film Citizen Kane provokes. Citizen Kane is widely believed by many critics to be the greatest movie of all time. What about the film resonates so deeply with those who can appreciate great art and film? And also for this book, what does Citizen Kane say about American politics, power, and who gains influence in America?

This book examines how the human mind has constructed Western philosophy. What would a new history of Western philosophy be? Aren't there so many studies like that on the market already? Most histories of Western philosophy go in chronological order from the pre-Socratics up to the modern philosophers. But why does it have to be that way?

This book examines two recent events that have apparently ended the conservative Reagan Revolution. 

This audiobook examines a common liberal misconception around the idea of economic inequality.

This book examines the differing world-views of the writers Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell and what it means about the nature of man and his future. 

This book investigates the reasons why the American involvement in Afghanistan was doomed to fail - and examines a chief reason for this, which was the political support in Afghanistan for the Taliban....

This book discusses the French philosopher Albert Camus' essay "The Rebel", and what it has to say about contemporary politics. 

This book discusses the idea that the American university and its college professors are not a way to inspire students to be original and creative thinkers.

This book examines the idea that competition is having a pernicious effect on American society. 

This book examines the common definition of the word democracy and determines whether this definition conforms with the actual reality of what occurs in nations that call themselves democracies.

This audiobook examines democracy, or a representative electoral political system, and the interaction with a nation's economy. 

There is talk in the Western world about a new relevance of Marxist theory. In this book, I show how Marxism can never be an adequate replacement for the admittedly flawed capitalist economic system.

This book investigates the thesis that despite America lacking a world-leading welfare state, America and its cultural desire for individual immortality may give Americans more psychological benefits than Europeans get in their welfare states. 

This book is an examination of the social, economic, and political consequences of the great recession of 2008.

This book is the second part of three parts on the development of the American social welfare state from 1933 to 2016. This volume is focused on the action (or inaction) toward a comprehensive social welfare state during the American presidential administrations of Richard Nixon to Barack Obama (until January 2016). This volume is concentrated mainly on American economic philosophy, in particular the common misperceptions around the term neoliberalism.

This book is a study about the inner world of the human female. Sigmund Freud said that he could not understand women. I guess, now we are left with the barbers, hairdressers, and bartenders to understand the human female. How do we get underneath all the propaganda put out by the media and sometimes just our cultural inaccuracies to get at the truth about what the true nature of a woman is?

This book looks behind the scenes to determine who or what runs American society.