Political Science
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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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The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral Into Madness Under PutinAn extraordinary first-hand account of Russia's descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness. Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times, moved to Russia in the chaotic final years of President Yeltsin's rule. Twenty-five years later, The Times pulled him out of...
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The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our DemocracyAn urgent and shocking examination of how the ultra-rich dominate democracies, hoard political power, and maintain inequality--and how we might chart another path. The wealthy and powerful few have dominated the many throughout most of human history. This is now more starkly visible than...
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Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical IslamIn this groundbreaking book, Mark Curtis reveals the covert history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups. Secret Affairs shows how governments since the 1940s have connived with militant forces to control oil resources and overthrow governments. The story of how Britain...
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Next-Level Ally: How to Support Your Queer and Transgender FriendsAuthor: Eli SachsePublisher: Microcosm PublishingPublished: 05/26/2026Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 6.99h x 5.14w x 0.54dISBN: 9781648416859About the AuthorEli Sachse, BSN, RN is a queer, transgender artist, author, and activist. He is the founder of LGBTQ Merced, GLSEN Merced, and the Merced Pride Center at...
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Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the PowerfulNew York Times Bestseller"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America." -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich,...
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Medicare for All: A Citizen's GuideA citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waitingThere are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the healthcare system at some point in their lives, and most people will...
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Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding HomeAn uproarious and "utterly charming" (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a...
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Losing Interest: The Antisocial History of Economic GrowthNothing about endless capitalist growth is normal.Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest scorned as benefiting from another's hardship and profit-making as divisive. So how did interest rates, monetary...
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Late Marxism: Adorno, Or, the Persistence of the DialecticIn the name of an assault on "totalization" and "identity," a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "post-politics." A case in point is recent interpretation of one of the greatest twentieth-century...
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How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global EconomyTwo top trade experts with popular economics podcasts argue for a new way of operating between the biggest economic powers in the world. We used to take trade for granted. No more. Everything we know about trade has changed. With Trump's tariffs throwing everything...
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Global Justice: Three Essays on Liberation and SocialismThree speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara. In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding...
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Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American RevolutionIn a groundbreaking global exploration of the ideas that drove the American Revolution, a prize-winning historian shines a light on the defiance of marginalized peoples all over the world. In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that...
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Espionage: A Concise HistoryA concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today's high-tech world. Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one of the most...
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Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent, May 1-July 4, 1776A fresh, gripping history of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, Declaration reveals how Samuel Adams, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, and the Continental Congress battled through the political upheaval in Philadelphia in 1776 to bring about America's break from Britain....
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Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken AmericaA prominent senator assesses the destructive ideas that have seized the American spirit--and shows how the hidden alignments in our politics can free us from their hold. Today, the United States is in a crisis--and it's not just a political one: over fifty years,...
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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and PracticeFirst published in 2014, Jessica Gordon Nembhard's Collective Courage quickly became an important tool for understanding the history of cooperative economic enterprises in the African American community. This now-classic work recounts how African Americans benefited greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout...
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third EditionJoseph Schumpeter's classic *Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy* explains the process of capitalism's "creative destruction" - a key principle in understanding the logic of globalization." - Thomas L. Friedman, *Foreign Policy*In this definitive third and final edition of his prophetic masterwork, Joseph A. Schumpeter introduced...
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A Victory for Democracy: NAACP V. Alabama and Freedom of AssociationIn 1956, six months after the start of the Montgomery bus boycott, Alabama Attorney General John Patterson obtained from state circuit court judge Walter B. Jones, an ardent defender of segregation, an order banning the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)....
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Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights VanguardExplore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between 1955 and 1965.Art and Activism explores the powerful, symbiotic relationships among artists such as Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, and...
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