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This book by the late millionaire Charles Givens, though not a formal philosophical treatise, bursts forth with Success Principles that the author argues "work, work every time, and work for everyone."  He employs these to outline an integrated body of Success Strategies which he argues persuasively meet that three-fold requirement. Objectiv... (See the whole review)

A good introduction to Straussian thought by one of it's most famous teachers. This book gives a run down of the current state of culture and the university from Bloom's perspective. From his view of books, love, relationships, music and creativity. He than goes on to comment on German philosophy and how it has shaped American thought and politics ... (See the whole review)

The Pentagon’s New Map – War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century I highly recommend this book. What Barnett proposes has broad appeal across the political spectrum, with the exception of folks on the far left or the far right, which I consider a positive! In The Pentagon’s New Map, Barnett lays out a rational strategy for war and peace d... (See the whole review)

Having sent the League up against London's worst in the first volume, Moore takes matters to a whole new level in the League's next adventure. The story opens on Mars as humans John Carter (hero of a series of pulp fantasy novels by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs) and Gulivar Jones (from Edwin L Arnold's separate though conceptually similar st... (See the whole review)

In late 1890s London, Mina Murray, ex-wife of Jonathan Harker (from Stoker's Dracula), Captain Nemo (Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea/The Mysterious Island), Alan Quatermain (Ryder-Haggard's King Solomon's Mines etc), Dr Griffen (Wells' Invisible Man) and Dr Jekyll (Stevenson's Jekyll & Hyde) are bought together by Campion Bond on behalf of his... (See the whole review)

This is a truly great book.  The title says it all. ... (See the whole review)

Since discussions about marriage arise in this and other freethought forums I lurk, I performed a Google search and stumbled across this little gem recently. http://www.NoMarriage.com I bought and read the e-book. The author shows little kindness to American women, calling them spoiled and worse. He argues, justifiably, that a man sho... (See the whole review)

Noam Chomsky is the greatest enemy that the United States has ever known, and this book compiles the evidence and presents the argument that can finally nail his slippery hide to the wall.

To my knowledge, I am the first SOLOist to change my mind about the war in Iraq. My unease with my anti-war position had been going on for some time and a discussion with SOLOist Joe Rowlands when he last visited New Zealand was crucial. But I have to say, this book was what really did it. If you thought Lindsay Perigo hated Saddam and the anti-war... (See the whole review)

You can now view this book online at no charge at http://www.newbostonbooks.com/Look%20Inside.htm if you desire. ... (See the whole review)

This book is a model of what good 'industry biography' should be. The author of 'The Commanding Heights' outlines the story of oil - black gold - and how it became the commodity that moves the world. The story Yergin tells is colourful, authoritative and - quite literally - earth-shaking; it is the story of the rise and development of capitalism an... (See the whole review)

I have just begun to read this book, spurred on by recent discussions on SOLO. In what has become his trademark, this elegant, and well argued book is a must read for anyone interested in our most distinguishing feature, FREE WILL. It is not a debate for the academics alone, but has implications for our culture, and our future. A full descr... (See the whole review)

I've just finished reading this wonderful collection of writing exercises, previously unpublished stories and plays and unpublished excerpts from We the Living and The Fountainhead. It is delightful to witness Rand's progress, both as writer and philosopher, in these works written between 1926 and 1938. One of the things I find amazing about... (See the whole review)

A humorous take by the creator of "THE FAR SIDE" on the consequences of environmentalism.

... Albert Einstein said that “The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhampered development of the individual.” But our institutions are the opposite. They enslave us – rule us by fear and deceit! ... Imagine – you're a child again. Filled with innocence, and wonder, and life. Remember how goo... (See the whole review)

An interesting exposé on the enormous importance and unthought-of benefits that would come with an economy driven by hydrogen power instead of fossil fuels. The Hydrogen Economy begins with an explanation of how hydrogen can be plentifully derived from water, using natural energy sources such as wind and solar energy to drive the electrolysi... (See the whole review)

I first read this years ago while in graduate school. It was one of the few I carried around with me in my backpack. Today, Classical Individualism is one of only a handful that I re-read every now and then, to refresh my mind and spirit. I say refresh, because in an age where communitarianist and socialist denial of true human liberty and flourish... (See the whole review)

For all you "Loner's" and "rugged individualists" out there, I'd like to recommend the INTROVERT ADVANTAGE by Marti Olsen Laney. For the longest time I used to wonder why I was not more outgoing, why being in a crowd drained my energy, being around others too long left me feeling like I needed to go to the moon to get away. Friends did nor understa... (See the whole review)

Isaac Newton. Michelangelo. Anne Rice. Barry Bonds. Haruki Murakami. They and countless others belong to a subculture that will never join hands, a group whose voices, by nature, will never form a chorus. They are loners—and they have at least one thing in common: They keep to themselves. And they like it that way. ... (See the whole review)

No matter your age, September signals a return to the shark-infested waters of school or workplace. Here is a darkly comic and enticingly designed primer for survival.   Right in tune with the millennial thirst for power and sanctimonious view of children, A Child's Machiavelli -- distilled from the sixteenth-century Italian political philos... (See the whole review)

Best-selling author and former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski offers a bold new global vision for extending American preeminence in the 21st Century. . As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the worlds only superpower: no other nation possesses comparable military and economic power or has interes... (See the whole review)

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Ca... (See the whole review)

Up to No Good is a collection of hysterical stories from grown men about the havoc they wreaked when they were boys. Nothing is sacred in this collection that makes Eddie Haskell look like a goody two shoes -- terrified nuns, urinating on electric fences, science classes gone bad -- the list goes on and on. ... (See the whole review)

This story is a great little satire of the subjectivist corruption of avant-garde human society, which is wholly incapable of seeing a brilliant and robust new male writer for what he really is:  a simple-minded forest bear. I smiled and laughed while reading this book... The characters who surround the bear are supreme idiots completely los... (See the whole review)

 Saki is a breath of fresh air. His short-stories offer a balm to anyone who treasures outstanding wit, colourful imagination and whip-smart plots – that is to say, by anyone truly alive. Imagine if PJ O’Rourke had turned his lens on Edwardian England ; or if Oscar Wilde had written hundreds of biting, acerbic stories disdaining cant, hypocr... (See the whole review)

Self-proclaimed lesbian pro-choice feminist Bruce, ex-president of the Los Angeles chapter of NOW and author of The New Thought Police, blames the decline of civilization on other lesbian pro-choice feminists in this lurid right-wing screed. Bruce argues that multiculturalism, identity politics and "relativism" have turned American society into a "... (See the whole review)

In this book the author blows the lid off the bizarre alliance between the liberal Left and radical Islam.   (from book description)   In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War ... (See the whole review)

A fast-paced, brilliantly researched exposé of the homosexuality of Hitler and his entourage. ... (See the whole review)

First published in 1870, Venus in Furs gained for its author both notoriety and a degree of immortality when the word "masochism"--derived from his name--entered the psychiatric lexicon. The novel describes the sexual obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman with the desire "to be the slave of a woman." Severin finds his ideal of vo... (See the whole review)

Conservatives aren't born--they evolve. And for Wall Street Journal ethics columnist Harry Stein--once vilified in The Village Voice as "a well-known asshole"--that evolution began with the birth of his daughter. ... (See the whole review)

What does mathematics mean? Is it numbers or arithmetic, proofs or equations? ... (See the whole review)

In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior.  Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, skewers the enduring ... (See the whole review)

This is perhaps the best book-length introduction to Wright's work. Plans, photos, sketches, and writings by Wright are accompanied by insightful articles on him - together they describe the sunlit genius of the greatest architect the world has ever seen.

I'm not a big fan of fantasy as a rule but I make an exception for this excellent comic book series by Wendy and Richard Pini, this volume of which collects the earliest Elfquest issues. ... (See the whole review)

The original Objectivist comic book creator, Steve Ditko is best known for his creation, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel comic book characters Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. ... (See the whole review)

The plot outlined in this lurid exposé is a frightening one: Osama bin Laden has nuclear weapons—lots of them—and is preparing to use them to create "an American Hiroshima." Williams, a journalist, former FBI consultant and author of The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Mafia, contends that bin Laden has purchased of dozens low-yield ... (See the whole review)

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Not a day goes by that most of us aren't presented with a graph, or a chart, or a poll by either a politician, a salesman or a newscaster - these all purport to tell us one thing, but on closer inspection many turn out to do nothing of the sort. Too high a proportion of too many of these glossy presentations don't really say what they purport to sa... (See the whole review)

This book should be in every student’s backpack.  In the post-modern intellectual battleground in which each student find himself submerged – and sometimes drowning - this book offers essential intellectual self-defence for every student who still cares to think. No matter if you already know every answer to all the sundry irrationalities y... (See the whole review)

Imagine Ayn Rand collaborating with Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) and Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) to create a sword and science comic book. Better yet, stop imagining and sample the amazing world of Tandra by objectivist creator/writer/artist Christopher Lindbergh Hanther, Jr. ... (See the whole review)

Civil War veteran, successful lawyer, spellbinding orator, and controversial iconoclast, Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was one of the best-known intellectuals of the nineteenth century. He rose to national prominence through his oratorical skills, which he publicly displayed on numerous lecture circuit tours. For almost twenty years this dedicate... (See the whole review)

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From author Max Allan Collins' website http://www.maxallancollins.com/: "Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: Prohibition-era Chicago. When he won't sell out, he's forced to quit the force and become a private investigator. His first client is Al Capone. His best friend is Elio... (See the whole review)

The late Harold Schonberg's third and final edition of this perennial favourite includes updated accounts of all the serialists, tonalists, minimalists, and other -ists who have bored and bewildered audiences during the last 50 years or so. (For such music to change, he quotes musicologist Robert P. Morgan as saying, "the world will have to change.... (See the whole review)

Fareed Zakaria's book The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad explains how capitalism has consistently preceded enduring, constitutionally limited democracies.  The author employs the famous ancient Greek story of Odysseus and the Sirens to illustrate the need to bind the masses to the rule of constitutional limits of governme... (See the whole review)

This is a book for those who take their punctuation seriously :  and I do mean seriously! "Punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life or death." So says the author! Who, after all, would want to get shot by a panda? -- and if you don't get the panda joke* after which this book is titled, then this book .... (See the whole review)

This is my favorite Ayn Rand novel. Not as overtly philosophical nor as monumental in scope as her later works, strictly as a novel qua novel, it excels those later works. And compared to the work of other authors, it is monumental. Rand tells us a love story set against the background of communist Russia in the 1920's. In part two, chapter 8, s... (See the whole review)

            Among books written systematically and engagingly, with an immense depth of notes and research to accompany them, few of our time can rank alongside Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Democracy: The God that Failed. Hoppe, a professor of economics at the University of Nevada and senior fellow with the Ludwig von Mises institute, is an anarcho-capital... (See the whole review)

Capitalism and Commerce provides an outstanding and accessible introduction to the best philosophical , moral, and economic arguments for capitalism. This excellent and interesting work makes a convincing case that capitalism is the only moral social system because it protects a man's mind, his primary means of survival and flourishing.Younkins tho... (See the whole review)

This book critically examines the Objectivist position on such major thinkers as Plato, Augustine, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche and finds them wanting. It includes 3 appendixes; one that provides an overview of Objectivism.