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    On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

    Michael Ignatieff

    From renowned intellectual and historian Michael Ignatieff comes a moving portrait of artists, writers, politicians, emperors, and poets overcoming tragedy and crisis - an ancient tradition of consolation which will…

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    The Russian Album

    Michael Ignatieff

    In this work, Michael Ignatieff re-creates the lives of his grandparents before and during the Russian revolution. Through his own trips to modern day Russia and through family documents and…

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    On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

    Michael Ignatieff

    As read on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler)…

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    The Needs of Strangers

    Michael Ignatieff

    An examination of the needs of human beings from a philosophical viewpoint. The book examines the long-term failure of religions and political thought to give a sense of community which…

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    Blood & Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

    Michael Ignatieff

    Reissue of an incisive exploration of the many faces of modern nationalism by the esteemed author of On Consolation

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    Isaiah Berlin: A Life

    Michael Ignatieff

    Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. The son of…

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    The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff

    Isaiah Berlin

    ‘A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master’ Robert McCrum, Guardian Isaiah Berlin’s classic essay on Tolstoy

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    Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil?

    Derrick O'Keefe

    A forensic critique of the influential liberal explores his opposition to fundamental human rights, the extension of democracy and the pursuit of economic equality.

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    On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

    Professor Michael Ignatieff,Michael Ignatieff

    As read on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler)…

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    Academic Freedom: The Global Challenge

    Michael Ignatieff

    Academic freedom-the institutional autonomy of scientific, research and teaching institutions, and the freedom of individual scholars and researchers to pursue controversial research and publish controversial opinions-is a cornerstone of any…

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    Blood And Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

    Michael Ignatieff

    In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern…

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    On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

    Michael Ignatieff

    As read on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler)…

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    The Rights Revolution

    Michael Ignatieff

    With an updated preface by the author.

    Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around…

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    The Russian Album

    Michael Ignatieff

    In this work, Michael Ignatieff re-creates the lives of his grandparents before and during the Russian revolution. Through his own trips to modern day Russia and through family documents and…

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    The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

    Michael Ignatieff

    In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. Yet a violent response to violence arguably makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies.

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    American Exceptionalism and Human Rights

    Adresses the question of whether America stands within the order of international law or outside it, as it applies to U.S. behaviour in relation to international human rights. With essays…

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    Charlie Johnson in the Flames: A Novel

    Michael Ignatieff

    In his critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, the author of The Needs of Strangers delivers a profound meditation that explores war, guilt, and one man’s search for justice.

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    The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

    Michael Ignatieff

    Traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism, from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and the unprecedented menace of Al Qaeda…

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    Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan

    Michael Ignatieff

    Focusing on nation building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, this title reveals how American military power, European money and humanitarian motive have combined to produce a form of imperial rule…

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    Charlie Johnson in the Flames

    Michael Ignatieff

    Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans. Horrified, he…

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    The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

    Michael Ignatieff

    During a 3-year, 8-nation journey, Michael Ignatieff found that while human rights is the language of states and liberal elites, the moral language that resonates with most people is that…

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    Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics

    Michael Ignatieff

    In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada’s Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his…

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    The Needs of Strangers

    Michael Ignatieff

    An examination of the needs of human beings from a philosophical viewpoint. The book examines the long-term failure of religions and political thought to give a sense of community which…

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    On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

    Michael Ignatieff,Michael Ignatieff

    As read on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’, a deeply moving exploration of the literature of consolation, of how writers (and the painter David and the Composer Mahler)…

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    Summary of The Ordinary Virtues by Michael Ignatieff: Conversation Starters

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    The Ordinary Virtues by Michael Ignatieff: Conversation Starters

    Moral philosopher Michael Ignatieff goes around the globe with a question in mind – Is globalization drawing us together morally? This question…

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    Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

    Professor Michael Ignatieff

    Virtual War describes the latest phase in modern combat: war fought by remote control. Kosovo was such a virtual war, a war in which US and NATO forces did the…

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    Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism

    Professor Michael Ignatieff

    Originally published: London: BBC Books, 1993.

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    Scar Tissue

    Professor Michael Ignatieff

    A report from that other country called illness. At its heart is a son’s memoir of his mother’s voyage into the world of neurological disease, where she loses first her…

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    Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment

    A reassessment of the Scottish Enlightenment’s contribution to modern economics and theories of capitalism.

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    Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc

    Gustaf Sobin

    A companion to Luminous Debris , this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author’s adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental…

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    Moments of Reprieve

    Primo Levi

    Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness…

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    The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin

    Describes the central thesis of author’s masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace.

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    The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness

    Andrei S. Markovits (Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

    Challenging an entire tradition, Markovits explores through his life story the ups and downs of post-1945 Europe and America offering a panoramic view of key currents that shaped him.

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    Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    Michael Ignatieff

    Presents an account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. This work argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world…

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    Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the PostDCold War Era

    Brian Loveman

    The United States has carved the world into five pieces, maintaining troops and military leadership in each.

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    Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the PostDCold War Era

    Brian Loveman

    The United States has carved the world into five pieces, maintaining troops and military leadership in each.

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 1

    Michael Ignatieff,Laura Kipnis,David Grossman

    Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact…

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

    A Meteor of Intelligent Substance

    Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is

    Liberties is THE place to be

    Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential…

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    Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

    Cynthia Ozick, Linda Kinstler, Michael Ignatieff, Timothy Noah, Sohrab Ahmari, Camille Ralphs, Yaroslav Hrytsak, David Rieff, Len Gutkin, Elliot Ackerman

    Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Liberties, is a collection of the most significant…

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