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Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
The incomparable novel about the men of the mind on strike against the creed of self-sacrifice.
Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a continual bestseller as well as an
intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the
world—and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his
battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most—and his hardest battle
against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor—and the motive power of every man?
Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life—from
the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy, to the great steel industrialist who does not
know that he is working for his own destruction, to the philosopher who becomes a pirate, to the
composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph, to the woman who runs a transcontinental
railroad, to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil,
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form
of an action thriller … more
Available formats:
Paperback Centennial Edition: $9.99 $8.95
Softcover: $25.00 $15.45
Softcover Centennial Edition: $26.00 $16.95
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Also available: CD Audiobook and
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Clearance sale on ARC Lecture Series products!
The Ayn Rand Bookstore is pleased to announce a clearance sale on all ARC Lecture Series recordings, while supplies last.
In order to clear out our existing supplies, we are cutting on DVD prices to $10.95 (regular price $18.95), and we are cutting
Audio CD prices to $8.95 (regular price $16.95). A few audiocassette and VHS recordings of ARC Lecture Series events remain available
as well; these are priced at $5.95 and $7.95 respectively.
Sale prices will remain effective until all of our ARC Lecture Series products are sold out.
All of our ARC Lecture Series products can be found in the ARC Lecture Series
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please contact us at 800-729-6149.
Browse all ARC Lecture Series sale items
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100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand
By Scott McConnell
Preorder now for expected delivery in November
Drawing on 100 never-before-published interviews, Scott McConnell presents a unique portrait
of a larger-than-life literary giant and a fascinating individual. Focusing on the private
Rand, McConnell talked to the author's family, friends, fans, and associates, as well as
Hollywood stars, university professors, fiction writers, and many more. Arranged in
chronological order, these interviews cover a broad range of years, contexts, relationships,
and observations on one of the most influential—and controversial—figures of the
twentieth century. From Ayn Rand's youngest sister to the woman who inspired the character
of Peter Keating in The Fountainhead, the subjects interviewed offer fresh,
sometimes surprisingly candid, affectionate, and intriguing insights into a complex and
remarkable writer, philosopher, and human
being … more
Softcover; 656 pages: $20.00 $13.45
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The Ayn Rand Photo Series Set 18:
Ayn Rand and Sculpture
As the latest installment from the Ayn Rand Photo Series, the Ayn Rand Bookstore presents "Ayn Rand and Sculpture,"
a set of four high-quality images showing sculptures that Ayn Rand admired. Each photo includes a caption
description with historical background, written by Michael S. Berliner.
These prints are reproduced in high resolution on high-quality photographic paper. They are suitable for either
framing or collecting in a special Ayn Rand Photo Series Collector's Album, also available from the Ayn Rand
Bookstore.
More info:
Photo Set 18: Ayn Rand and Sculpture: $19.95
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Euclid's Method
By Robert Knapp
The common fallacy that geometry pertains specifically to idealizations—i.e., that it applies to the world but
is not about the world—begins with Euclid saying, "A point is that which has no part. A line is a breadthless length."
In this course, Dr. Knapp examines the implicit method of Euclid's argument and shows that, contrary to common belief, Euclid's
propositions pertain to shapes and relationships that do exist in the
world … more
(4 hrs., 28 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $60.95
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“Humanity’s Darkest Evil:” The Lethal Destructiveness of Non-Objective Law
By Tara Smith
This lecture explores Judge Naragansett’s claim in Atlas Shrugged that non-objective law is “humanity’s
darkest evil.” It explains Ayn Rand’s view of the basic role of government and the importance of individual freedom.
While government is a necessary good, strict objectivity in a legal system is vital to keep government’s use of its
power in check.
Examples from Atlas Shrugged and the world around us show how failures of objectivity unravel the rule of law,
undermine the protection of freedom and turn a man’s purported protector into his
enemy … more
(89 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $21.75
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Religion in American History
By Eric Daniels
This course investigates the historical development of religion in American history from the importation of the Puritan
theocracy in the seventeenth century to the growth of evangelical ideas in the twenty-first. It illustrates how religion
developed institutionally and in American culture. Dr. Daniels evaluates the role religion has played at crucial moments
in our history and arms listeners against those who would give religion a central role
today … more
(4 hrs., 35 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Hallmarks of Objectivism: The Benevolent Universe Premise and the Heroic View of Man
By Allan Gotthelf
The benevolent universe premise and the heroic view of man are hallmarks of Objectivism. While not among the philosophy’s
defining essentials, they are direct and dramatic consequences of those essentials and are signs of the philosophy’s
greatness. This lecture examines the meaning and interconnection of these two propositions, some striking ways in which
they are presented or dramatized in Ayn Rand’s fiction and nonfiction, and how their truth depends on more fundamental
truths of Objectivism … more
(87 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 2-CD set: $21.45
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Property Rights—and Wrongs
By Thomas A. Bowden
What happens when the moral principle of property rights is ignored or forgotten? You get oil-funded dictatorships across
the globe, onerous impediments to land use in America and state-sponsored theft of private homes through eminent domain. As
Ayn Rand warned, "without property rights, no other rights are possible." This course explores current events in the
context of cardinal values underlying property rights: objective value creation, freedom from the initiation of physical
force, and sanctity of contract … more
(3 hrs., 59 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 5-CD set: $54.95
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The Renaissance (part 2): c. 1450–c. 1550
By Andrew Lewis
A companion to earlier courses, this course traces the climax of the Renaissance. Ideas became increasingly secular after
1450, eroding the Church’s power. Scholars argued that the Church should confine itself to spiritual matters, while men
should govern themselves here on Earth. Propelled by the rapid dissemination of ideas made possible by Gutenberg’s press,
this turbulent century culminated in the discovery of the New World, the art of Leonardo and Michelangelo, and Copernicus’s
heliocentric theory … more
(4 hrs., 29 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Exploring the Psychological Visibility Principle as Illustrated in Atlas Shrugged
By Ellen Kenner
Throughout Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand gives us memorable examples of tenderness and admiration. Such visibility, expressed
in subtle and eloquent words and actions, nourishes relationships and is an act of justice. In contrast, feeling invisible or
misunderstood by those who matter (a spouse, a child, a friend, an employer) can cause agony.
Topics covered include: altruism’s devastating effect on visibility, self-visibility, expressing admiration to those one values,
forgiveness, and how to deal with “looters-in-spirit” … more
(4 hrs., 16 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $58.95
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The History of Ancient Greece: The Archaic Period
By John Lewis
Archaic Greece marked the emergence of Greek culture and set the stage for the intellectual revolution of the later
classical period. The rise of hundreds of autonomous city-states spread Greek culture across the Mediterranean.
Political leaders, poets and other intellectuals brought independence, heroism and a respect for wisdom to the
cultural forefront. The growing respect for reason set a context for the rise of philosophy to
follow … more
(4 hrs., 29 min., with Q & A)
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Audio CD; 6-CD set: $60.95
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Friendship: Who Needs It
By Kris Biniek
What is the value of friendship in a flourishing life? Aristotle held that in the best, most complete kind of friendship, a
friend is “another self” or a mirror of oneself. Ayn Rand portrays friendship similarly in her novels.
This course examines the nature of friendship, focusing on the idea of a friend as another self and considering how friendship
allows one to fully experience oneself … more
(4 hrs., 22 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 4-CD set: $59.95
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Ibsen the Iconoclast
By Lisa VanDamme
Henrik Ibsen was a radical playwright who defied social and theatrical conventions, and a brilliant artist who translated
powerful ideas into compelling dramatic situations.
In this course, Ms. VanDamme discusses three of Ibsen's great plays: Brand, an anthem to the uncompromising spirit;
A Doll's House, an attack on conventional roles for women; and The Wild Duck, a scathing portrait of
society's unreadiness for Ibsen's radical ideas … more
(4 hrs., 38 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 4-CD set: $62.95
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The Objective vs. the Intrinsic and the Subjective
By Harry Binswanger
The dismal state of today’s culture stems from the absence of a genuine concept of objectivity. In this two-part lecture Dr.
Binswanger asks: What facts of reality give rise to the need for such a concept, and what do these facts imply for the proper
use of concepts? He then applies the objective-intrinsic-subjective trichotomy to explain and correct the major historical
views of: concepts, essences, the good, virtue, the initiation of force, rights and economic
value … more
(3 hrs., 6 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 4-CD set: $41.95
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Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights
By Andrew Bernstein
This book is a concise explanation of capitalism's moral and economic superiority to all forms of socialism, including America's
current mixed-economy welfare state. Bernstein shows that the current crisis is essentially similar to the Great Depression in
its causation and in the steps necessary to resolve it. The book's concluding section applies moral and economic principles to
the current economic crisis, showing that government intervention is its cause and a policy of laissez-faire its necessary
solution. Furthermore, socialist/statist policies are universally the cause of social calamities and that the answer lies in
individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism. The principles that the book articulates are timeless; in diverse forms, the
conflicts these principles explain recur repeatedly throughout history.
Bernstein accomplishes all of this in a concise, lively, impassioned and fully accessible
volume … more
Softcover; 146 pages: $19.95 $16.65
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Art as a Concretization of Metaphysics
By Barry Wood
In this course, Dr. Wood explores Ayn Rand’s view that art brings our abstract estimate of existence—our metaphysical
value-judgments—from the conceptual level to the level of sense perception. The lectures provide a “chewing” of this
idea, drawing on examples that range from Greek sculpture to Chinese landscape painting. Topics include the nature of
metaphysical value-judgments, fine art versus decorative art and art as a barometer of
culture … more
(4 hrs., 29 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $61.95
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Moral Rights and Metaphysical Law
By Craig Biddle
To uphold and defend the principle of individual rights, one must grasp, as Ayn Rand did, that “the source of man’s rights
is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity.” However, a great deal of observations, conceptualizations
and generalizations lies between the principle of rights and the law of identity. This course concretizes and clarifies
these crucial connections, zeroing in on the facts that give rise to rights, identifying the precise nature of rights,
differentiating objective from “natural” and “intrinsic” rights, elucidating the moral and political implications of these
principles, and demonstrating that one’s rights to life, liberty, property, etc., are as absolute as the fact that you are
reading these words.
Listeners will expand or fortify their understanding of the source, nature and meaning of rights, and thereby enhance their
ability to speak and write cogently for the establishment of a fully free
society … more
(4 hrs., 47 min., with Q & A)
More info:
Audio CD; 6-CD set: $65.95
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The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics
By David Harriman
Introduction by Leonard Peikoff
Inspired by and expanding on a series of lectures by Leonard Peikoff, David Harriman presents a fascinating answer
to the problem of induction—that is, the epistemological question of how we know the truth of inductive
generalizations … more
Softcover; 272 pages: $10.65
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Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea
By C. Bradley Thompson
With Yaron Brook
This book reveals publicly for the first time what the neoconservatives call their “philosophy of governance”—their
plan for governing America. This book explicates the deepest philosophic principles of neoconservatism, traces the
intellectual relationship between the political philosopher Leo Strauss and contemporary neoconservative political actors,
and provides a trenchant critique of neoconservatism from the perspective of America’s founding principles. The theme of
this timely book—neoconservatism as a species of anti-Americanism—will shake up the intellectual salons of
both the Left and Right … more
Hardcover: $26.95
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Nothing Less than Victory
By John Lewis
The goal of a war is to defeat an enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue.
Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish
lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and
stalemate … more
Hardcover: $29.95
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Winning the Unwinnable War
Editor and lead contributor Elan Journo
Additional essays by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein
The message of the essays in this thematic collection is that only by radically re-thinking our foreign policy in the Middle
East can we achieve victory over the enemy that attacked us on 9/11. We need a new moral foundation for our Mideast policy.
That new starting point for U.S. policy is the moral ideal championed by Ayn Rand: rational self-interest. Implementing this
approach entails objectively defining our national interest as protecting the lives and freedoms of Americans—and then
taking principled action to safeguard them. The book lays out the necessary steps for achieving victory and for securing
America's long-range interests in the volatile Middle East … more
Softcover; 250 pages: $27.95 $19.95
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The Objective Standard
A Journal of Culture and Politics
Subscriptions are now available through the Ayn Rand Bookstore
From the publisher:
"The Objective Standard is a quarterly journal of culture and politics based on the idea that for every human
concern—from personal matters to foreign policy, from the sciences to the arts, from education to
legislation—there are demonstrably objective standards by reference to which we can assess what is true or
false, good or bad, right or wrong. The purpose of the journal is to analyze and evaluate ideas, trends, events,
and policies accordingly.
"We maintain that the standards of both knowledge and value derive from the facts of reality; that truth is
discovered only by means of reason, i.e., through observation and logic; that the factual requirements of man's
life on earth determine his moral values; that the selfish pursuit of one's own life-serving goals is virtuous;
and that individual rights are moral principles defining the fundamental requirements of a civilized society.
"We stand opposed to the notion that the standards of knowledge and value are not factual but subjective
(feeling-based) or other-worldly (faith-based); that truth is ultimately dictated by majority opinion or a
"supernatural" being's will; that democratic consensus or "God's word" determines what is moral; that sacrifice
for the common good or in obedience to "God's commands" is virtuous; and that rights are social conventions or
"divine decrees."
"In stark contrast to these philosophic approaches, ours is a philosophy of reality, reason, egoism, and laissez-faire
capitalism. In a word, we uphold Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and it serves as our frame of reference
in analyzing the cultural and political issues of the day."
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