Non-Fiction - Political Science, Philosophy and Sociology

Candide, a privileged and sheltered young man, is under the folly of optimism and believes he lives in the ‘best of all possible worlds’ as his men...

The Prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain ...

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC regarding the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-s...

“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.” The Pov...

The Essays, first published in 1597, contains essays written in a wide range of styles—from the plain and unadorned—to the epigrammatic and concise...

“Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.” In the words ...

One of the most acclaimed Russian works of literature, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev is a philosophical fiction cutting across a wide-ranging s...

Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle. The title of the book literally means “the things concerning the polis.” The end of the Ni...

Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a scathing critici...

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When the revolutions bega...

The book traces and analyzes the causes that have fragmented the human society into warring groups. The main causes are religion and family-line (s...