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  • Virtue Politics

    Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

    by James Hankins ...
    Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.”—Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement“Magisterial…Hankins shows that the humanists’ obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

    The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena

    by James Hankins ...
    The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi—the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli—who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance.At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school of social ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Golden Thread Vol 2 Part 2

    by Allen C. Guelzo, James Hankins ...
    As the Renaissance ended in Europe, the Western world experienced a long series of cataclysmic events that still reverberate in modern society. The Golden Thread, Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West, by Allen C. Guelzo, explores those events and traces their consequences up through the twentieth century. The volume begins in 1500 when the Protestant Reformation ended the Roman Catholic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Golden Thread Vol 2 Part 1

    by Allen C. Guelzo, James Hankins ...
    As the Renaissance ended in Europe, the Western world experienced a long series of cataclysmic events that still reverberate in modern society. The Golden Thread, Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West, by Allen C. Guelzo, explores those events and traces their consequences up through the twentieth century. The volume begins in 1500 when the Protestant Reformation ended the Roman Catholic ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

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    Virtue Politics

    Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

    by James Hankins ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 33 min

    Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was simple and radical. They would rebuild their city, and their civilization, by transforming the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Shady Cross

    by James Hankins ...
    Narrated by Bon Shaw ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    In one hand, small-time crook Stokes holds a backpack stuffed with someone else’s money—three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of it.In the other hand, Stokes has a cell phone, which he found with the money. On the line, a little girl he doesn’t know asks, “Daddy? Are you coming to get me? They say if you give them money they’ll let you take me home.”From bestselling author James Hankins comes a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    What We Blacks Need To Do

    Part 2

    by James Jerome Hankins ...
    Narrated by Kelvin Berring, Kristan Jackson ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - What We Blacks Need To Do

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    My name is James Jerome Hankins. My mother, Faldenia, an AMEZ teacher gave me my first name James after St. James who said" if you have faith but don't do any work to help others, you are "nothing". My father, Edward, a Catholic barber gave me my middle name Jerome after St. Jerome who translated the bible from Greek to Latin and is the patron saint of writers. My last name, Hankins, came from my ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Inside Dark, The

    by James Hankins ...
    Narrated by Bon Shaw ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    Five days ago, aspiring crime novelist Jason Swike awoke chained to the wall of a run-down horse stable, convinced he would soon die at the hands of Crackerjack, the infamous serial killer who had terrorized the residents of Massachusetts for the past year—capturing and tormenting men, painting whimsical designs on their faces before shattering their bones and ending their lives. Just when death ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Blood Thing, A

    by James Hankins ...
    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    Never trust a blackmailer.Vermont’s promising young governor, Andrew Kane, is at another public meet-and-greet when a stranger from the crowd slips him a cell phone and whispers, “Keep this with you…keep it secret…you’re going to need it after the arrest.”Hours later, Andrew’s brother, Tyler, is taken into custody—framed for the brutal murder of a young woman—and Andrew discovers there is only one ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Prettiest One, The

    A Thriller

    by James Hankins ...
    Narrated by Bon Shaw ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 41 min

    When Caitlin Sommers finds herself alone in a deserted parking lot with blood on her clothes and no memory of the past few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have tormented her for years…but it’s all too real. Desperate to learn the truth about where she’s been and what has happened to her but terrified of what she may find, Caitlin embarks on a search for answers. Her journey takes ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

    Edited by James Hankins ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a New Planetary Order

    Alternative Cultural Perspectives

    by Roger T. Ames, Roger T. Ames, Michael Walzer, Owen Flanagan, Dr. Feng Zhang, Baogang He, Amita Chatterjee, May Sim0, J. Baird Callicott1, Oliver Leaman2, Sun Xiangchen3, Xiaoyu Lu4, Hans-Georg Moeller5, Brook Ziporyn6, Jin Y. Park7, Vrinda Dalmiya8, Workineh Kelbessa9, David B. Wong0, Wang Hui1, Albert Welter2, James Hankins3 ...
    Series series Confucian Cultures
    The Westphalian model of international relations has given us a zero-sum game of winners and losers that has proven to be ineffective in addressing the pressing issues of our times. Philosopher Zhao Tingyang has argued that by conceptualizing international relations from the planetary perspective of tianxia, we can develop a sense of “worldness” that at once acknowledges the plurality of moral ... Read more

    $28.49 USD