Political Science
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Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth--And What to Do about ItA leading social critic identifies our least-discussed major crisis, and sets out to solve it. As Americans debate President Biden's infirmities and President Trump's erratic behavior, we've neglected the bigger problem before us: a massive transfer of power and wealth to the oldest among...
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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing ChinaBetween the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the...
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Fight to Win!: Heroes of American Labor (the Young Readers Edition of Fight Like Hell)The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now in a "rousing...passionate" (Kirkus Reviews) young readers edition. The history of American labor is full of incredible leaders, organizers, and workers, but not all of...
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Divided We StandIn Divided We Stand, Bill Newcott - longtime senior editor/writer for National Geographic and AARP the Magazine - discovers a country that is not what we see in our daily doom scrolls. While Americans may well face many irreconcilable differences, when they actually come...
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Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787"One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution." -- New York Times Book Review"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever...
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Common Sense: The Pocket Size Edition of the Revolutionary Classic"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." - Thomas PaineCommon Sense is the fiery pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. With bold clarity and unwavering conviction, Thomas Paine makes the case for independence, challenging monarchy, hereditary...
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Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf StatesHow are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states? Mixing theoretical and empirical insights, and utilising both historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a comparative analysis of military, political, economic and religious power in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...
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Bounded AmbitionSince the 1980s, China has become steadily enmeshed in multilateral international organizations (MIOs). A rich body of rhetoric and behaviour is available to deepen our understanding of why and how Beijing engages with MIOs, additionally allowing a response to the question of whether China's...
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Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can OvercomeProfessor Greg Jackson, podcast host of History That Doesn't Suck, proves that while today's political climate may be dark, these aren't as unprecedented times as we may think. Our nation's past is full of massive upheaval, disagreement, and departures from the moral high ground....
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Asian Americans in an Anti-Black WorldWhere do Asian Americans fit into the U.S. racial order? Are they subordinated comparably to Black people or permitted adjacency to whiteness? The racial reckoning prompted by the police murder of George Floyd and the surge in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic raise...
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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I'm so glad it's here." -- Clint Smith, author of How the Word is PassedSince the nation's founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience--a "second sight"--that reveals the truth...
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A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the LawA frank and enlightening discussion on race and the law in America today, from some of our leading legal minds--including the bestselling author of Just Mercy This blisteringly candid discussion of the American racial dilemma in the age of Black Lives Matter brings together...
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America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & BonesBreaking 170 years of secrecy, this intriguing exposé takes a behind-the-scenes look at Yale's mysterious society, the Order of the Skull and Bones, and its prominent members, numbering among them Tafts, Rockefellers, Pillsburys, and Bushes. Explored is how Skull and Bones initiates have become...
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American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for InterdependenceAmerican Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence serves as a welcoming volume for a much needed conversation about the origins of our founding documents and more importantly, about the wisdom of Native American ways of living and how they can be applied as an...
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Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the WorldAn "enthralling and authoritative" (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler--by the acclaimed author of Appeasement "A fine reassessment of Allied politics and diplomacy during...
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Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in WartimeA critical look into how and why the U.S. military needs to become more adaptable. Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. As former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates once noted: "We...
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While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart. After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in...
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We've Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained AmericaAmerica has always been sustained by rebellion and activism. It is up to us to continue the fight. America's founding was a contradictory one. When the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years ago, it painted a beautiful vision of freedom and equality. It...
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Voice of Triumph: Hitler's Speeches at NurembergNuremberg has served for centuries as a hub of political life in Germany. In the day of the Holy Roman Empire, Nuremberg boasted the high status of a Free Imperial City and hosted several important Imperial Diets, or Reichstage. The National Socialists framed themselves...
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Two Treatises of GovernmentTwo Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is...
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