Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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While Waiting for Rain: Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of ChangeWhat might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After...
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Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the PlanetWhy a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration. This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitablecare-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and...
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Taking Intelligence Analysis to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and TerrorismTaking Intelligence to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples examines intelligence gathering and analysis and the significance of these programs. Coverage assumes a basic understanding of the intelligence cycle and processes, and the book builds...
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XI Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the village level, he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and China's paramount leader in 2012. Few expected...
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Afghanistan Kabul Kurier: One Soldier's Story of the Taliban, Tribes & Ethnicities, Opium Trade, & BurqasAn intimate and unvarnished portrait of a war-weary nation penned by a senior intelligence officer who spent a year on the ground in Kabul.From 2008-2009, then Colonel Zwack kept an intimate journal of his experiences as a soldier serving in complex and dangerous Afghanistan...
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Forging Leninism in China: Mao and the Remaking of the Chinese Communist Party, 1927-1934Forging Leninism in China is a re-examination of the events of the Chinese revolution and the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party from the years 1927 to 1934. Describing the transformation of the party as 'the forging of Leninism', Joseph Fewsmith offers a clear...
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War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the FutureA critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resist. War Virtually is the story of how scientists, programmers, and engineers are racing to develop data-driven technologies for fighting virtual wars, both...
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None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital AgeCapello investigates why we've been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we've had along the way to rein it in. Every day, Americans surrender their private information to entities claiming to have their best interests in mind. This trade-off...
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Eight Hundred Heroes: China's Lost Battalion and the Fall of ShanghaiAcclaimed historian Stephen Robinson brings to life a legendary last stand.Shanghai 1937. With invading Japanese troops poised to capture one of the world's greatest cities after almost three months of brutal urban warfare, the Chinese Army begins to retreat - except for a single...
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Stand Up, Speak Out: My Life Working for Women's Rights, Peace and Equality in Northern Ireland and BeyondBy the age of ten, Monica McWilliams was dispensing payouts in her granny's post office, book-keeping for her cattle-dealer father and leaving no one in any doubt that she could stand up for herself. She went on to break the mold in so many...
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For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist RealismFor a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called "capitalist realism, in which (to cite the famous expression variously attributed to Fredric...
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Cuba: The Doctrine of the LieCuba: The Doctrine of the Lie is a thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for...
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War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, GeopoliticsApplying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relations Offers a definitive and original vision of space warfare that theorises often-overlooked aspects of contemporary space activities based in the discipline of Strategic Studies. This original research draws out the...
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Longshot: The Inside Story of the Race for a Covid-19 VaccineThis is the incredible story of the scientists who created a coronavirus vaccine in record time. In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dismissed but whose feat will now eclipse the...
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The Final Kingdom: Horizons of the Fourth Political Theory and Geopolitics of the ApocalypsePyotr Volkov (born in Uruguay as Diego Daniel García), is an anthropologist and historian with a special interest in past and current events related to the great history of Slavdom and Orthodox Christianity. For an entire decade, he worked to create an ambitious book...
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception-now with a new introduction and afterword from the author....
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Gwangju Uprising: The Rebellion for Democracy in South KoreaThe essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion On May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'état and the martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated...
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Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of CommunicationIn Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Working with Gilles Deleuze's suggestion that...
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The Benjamin FilesJameson's first full-length engagement with Walter Benjamin's work. The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker...
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Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for ResilienceDISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY The new edition of the standard textbook in the field, updated with new studies and practical guidelines for reacting to the complexities of today's disasters Disaster Response and Recovery: Strategies and Tactics for Resilience provides a thorough overview of the...
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