A dead man, a dog, a murderer, a coin, two lovers, and a tree take turns narrating this tale, which is Pamuk's follow-up to the well-reviewed but little read The New Life (1997). Set in sixteenth-century Istanbul, the novel is equal parts mystery, love story, and a philosophical discussion on the nature of art and artistic vision. Two men have been killed: Elegant, a miniaturist engaged (with others) on a book project glorifying the life of the sultan, and Enishte, the man who hired the artists to do the book.

The Change occurs and the world is returned to pre-industrial technology. What happens?

An epic fantasy that combines political intrigue with grand strategy.

The author of Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars updates his thinking in light of the challenges and conflicts of the last 20 years.

A collection of essays from Hayek including The Use of Knowledge in Society.

Mead contends that rather than lacking a foreign policy tradition, American diplomacy can best be understood as the interplay between four competing schools: Hamiltonian focus on economics and trade, Jeffersonian concerns with protecting America, Jacksonian frontierism and populism, and Wilsonian idealism.

An examination of the implicit and explicit assumptions about human behavior that underly the public policy prescriptions of both ends of the political spectrum. As the title suggests, Le Grand posits two axes upon which to chart these assumptions: motivation and agency. He then introduces the "characters" of the subtitle to label the extremes of the axes. "Knights" are motivated by altruism and the spirit of cooperation, while "knaves" are self-interested utility maximizers — the kind of actors touted by public choice theorists. Agents are further divided into passive "pawns", cogs in the public service machine, and active "queens", empowered to make choices and free to act.

I've just received my copy. But I must admit, I'm afraid. Afraid of getting sucked in to the 1000 or so pages. Afraid I'll never finish The Intentional Stance or The Constitution of Liberty if I start this.