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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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our WorldZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, ultimately determining how we experience our...
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How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight ThemAuthor: Danny CainePublisher: Microcosm PublishingPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 6.90h x 5.60w x 0.64dISBN: 9781648414084Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 06/01/2026About the AuthorDanny Caine is the author most recently of Jewish American Dream, winner of the inaugural Sarabande Chapbook Prize. He's also written four poetry...
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Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far RightWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory--but they didn't. Instead, they saw...
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For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of PowerlessnessThe essential guide to establishing an effective opposition movement in the age of Trump, from the leading activist and organizer"I consider [Marom] one of the most generous and important thinkers for the activist left, for anyone who cares about where we are and how...
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Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam"The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam."--Salon.com Devil's Game is the first comprehensive account of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and cultivating Islamic fundamentalism....
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of HistoryAcclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she...
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Battle for BerlinGermany's short-lived Weimar Republic appears in the historical record as little more than an interregnum between Germany's defeat in the First World War and the rise of Adolf Hitler's new order in 1933. While often overlooked, the situation on the ground in the 1920s...
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A Time for BraveryWe are living at a critical point in history with the stubborn problems of rising inequality, rising fossil fuel production, and declining faith in democracy. This is a time for individuals, organisations, communities and our elected representatives to find the bravery we need to...
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A Resistance History of the United StatesRevisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our past--and how its principles can change our future. The United States was shaped by resistance--but not in the...
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School"A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation."--Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School "Provides important context for an important moment in America's history."--Associated Press When...
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Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never SeeA muckraking history of San Diego that covers the city's historically recent shift from politically conservative to politically progressive while also outlining a new cast of right-wing villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice. "Behind the luminous veneer of San Diego, there is...
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Trade Up: Why the Future Belongs to Skilled Trades and How Career Education is Transforming the WorkforceThe four-year college degree has been the preferred path for generations of Americans who saw it as the most direct way to climb the economic ladder. But today, record numbers of college graduates are unable to find jobs and feel as though that ladder...
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The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Infiltrated AuschwitzCOSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR - #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us--as if watching a movie--the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion,...
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The Visionaries: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II OrderFrom the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West that could be...
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The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and FreedomFrantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in...
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The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience; and yet there was at one time a danger that his name...
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The Philosophy of MarxGiovanni Gentile is widely acknowledged as the foundational philosopher of Italian Fascism. He worked in academia as well as government, contributing to the formation of the Italian corporate state and education system under Bennito Mussolini. Gentile continued writing and contributing to the Italian Fascist...
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The Paris Commune: A Global HistoryThe Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune was felt the world over. Concepts and practices developed there were taken up in all corners...
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The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic PropagandaAn explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th. October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day--a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were...
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The Democracy We Must Keep: Seven Founders, Nine Documents, and the Ideas That Shaped America"A great scholar of the American past, David O. Stewart has brilliantly mined what has come before to guide us in our own, all-too-urgent American present. An important and timely volume." Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The American StruggleWhat did America's founders say...
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