Political Science
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Invitations to Responsibility: The therapeutic engagement of men who are violent and abusiveThis influential and compassionate book explores ways of working with adult men and young men who are violent and abusive. It gives practical examples of how they can be invited to discover more sensitive, respectful and personally rewarding ways of relating to others.Author: Alan...
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Economic Interdependence and WarDoes growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets....
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American LifeThe controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.Author: Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayPublisher: Free PressPublished: 01/10/1996Pages: 912Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 9.26h...
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The Cigarette: A Political HistoryFinalist for the Hagley Prize in Business HistoryA Smithsonian Book of the Year "Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov's thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse."--New York Times Book Review Tobacco is the...
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Den of ThievesA #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize-winner JameAuthor: James B. StewartPublisher:...
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism "High-speed, four-lane storytelling...
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Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical TheoryIn this ambitious book, Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. These interpretations lead him to a very different analysis...
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1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American DemocracyThe essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in colonial Virginia. Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within...
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The Future of NostalgiaCan one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaThe ideal introduction for students, aspiring citizens, and general readers to the documents that are as relevant today as when they were first drafted more than 200 years ago. In the years since their creation, the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of...
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Modern Herstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting HistoryAn inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond. With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern HERstory profiles...
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New AmericaNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in...
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To the Finland Station: A Study in the Acting and Writing of HistoryOne of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy,...
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Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and WarIn 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators...
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The British Constitution: A Very Short IntroductionBeginning with the Magna Carta in 1215, a number of documents--not one single document as in the United States--have constituted the British constitution. What are the main characteristics of Britain's peculiar constitutional arrangements? How has the British constitution altered in response to the changing...
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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of EmpireAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism...
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Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons"Should be required reading for all policy makers." --Warren Buffett From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now. In 2018, Ben...
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No Politics, No Religion?: How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our UnityAmericans are told that they are divided and polarized, but is it true? No Politics, No Religion? put this proposition to the test - with surprising results. No politics, no religion is a common saying that discussions of politics and religion should be avoided...
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I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent ConflictArtificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent weapon systems are here today, and many more are on the way tomorrow. Already, they're reshaping conflict--from the chaos of battle, with pilotless drones, robot tanks and unmanned submersibles, to the headquarters far from the action, where...
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How Capitalism Ends: History, Ideology and ProgressWhile the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient...
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