Political Science
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Choosing Liberty in California Policy Reform: Examining Suicide, Discrimination in Housing, Civil Asset Forfeiture, and Drug LegalizationChoosing Liberty in California Policy Reform: Examining Suicide, Discrimination in Housing, Civil Asset Forfeiture, and Drug Legalization looks at four major public policy problems in California that can be done better. These policies have the potential to perpetuate systemic racism instead of creating a...
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Reforming to Survive: The Bolshevik Origins of Social PoliciesThis Element details how elites provide policy concessions when they face credible threats of revolution. Specifically, the authors discuss how the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent formation of Comintern enhanced elites' perceptions of revolutionary threat by affecting the capacity and motivation of...
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We the People: The American Owners' ManualDictionaries define health as the absence of disease, but that's wishful thinking, for diseases typically begin asymptomatically. You don't know you have them. You might feel fine, but you can't say there's no cancer, occlusion, infection etc. lurking beneath the surface. If something pops...
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The Global Spatial Revolution: Space, Power, Communication in the Air AgeThe volume examines the process of globalization from a genealogical point of view. By doing so, it offers a contribution to the understanding of the deep and critical spatial transformation reshaping our world from both a political and a conceptual point of view, taking...
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USCG Project Evergreen V: Compilation of Activities and Summary of ResultsThis report summarizes the findings of Evergreen V, the most recent iteration of an ongoing scenario-based strategic foresight initiative that aims to help the U.S. Coast Guard identify issues, areas of opportunity, and potential challenges that it will likely face in the coming decades,...
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From Beirut to JerusalemIf you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it.---Seymour M. Hersh One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region...
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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological AnalysisMore than thirty years ago F. A. Hayek said of Socialism: "It was a work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom. . . . To none of...
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Ukraine: voices of resistance and solidarityThe invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a turning point in politics. This imperialist grab for territory and resources has divided the left around the world. Socialists and trade-unionists in Ukraine are determined to resist occupation and destruction of the country, and that there...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History"The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so." --Thomas E. Woods Most Americans trust that their history professors and high school teachers will give students honest and accurate information....
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The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork ImaginariesIn The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition...
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No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights MovementNow available in paperback and the winner of numerous awards, this is the first popular history of the disability rights movement. Includes conversations with couragous people who fight for freedom of movement, meaningful employment, and a life of dignity and promise.Author: Joseph P. ShapiroPublisher:...
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102 Minutes102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling.--Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at Dawn Hailed upon publication as an...
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Universal Human Rights in Theory and PracticeIn the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights--and the...
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Them: Adventures with ExtremistsFrom the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You've Been Publicly Shamed. A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world...
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A Civil Action#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation's largest corporations accused of killing children from water contamination that he risks losing everything. The legal thriller of...
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The Age of Discontent: Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary DemocraciesThe years following the 2008 financial crisis produced a surge of political discontent with populism, conspiracism, and Far Right extremism rising across the world. Despite this timing, many of these movements coalesced around cultural issues rather than economic grievances. But if culture, and not...
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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United StatesOriginally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the...
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The Conscience of a LiberalIn this clear, provocative (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of...
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The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of the WarIn a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays...
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The Warning: Accident at Three Mile IslandBy 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew, overwhelmed by flashing...
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