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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In Search of EnemiesIn Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, only "advisors," many millions were spent, many...
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Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Cultural RevolutionThis new edition of Revolutionary Immortality coincides with two interesting rediscoveries in American intellectual life--that of China and that of death. The book happens to be about both.Author: Robert Jay LiftonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1976Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w...
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On Socialist DemocracyRoy Medvedev demonstrates, in engrossing and sharp detail, how the vast gulf between Marxist-Leninist principles and official Soviet attitudes and procedures turned vital theory into hollow dogma. Focusing on the rigidities of official ideology, he makes brilliantly clear the ways in which an excessively...
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Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the End of the Fifth CenturyIn this book, Professor Adkins undertakes an examination of certain key value-words in the period between Homer and the end of the fifth century. The behavior of these words both affected and was affected by the nature of the society in which their usage...
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Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over CommunismReagan's War is the story of Ronald Reagan's personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role...
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Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on TerrorFrom the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world's response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani...
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic DemocracyIn a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. Frank's target is market populism--the widely...
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Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51A journey into the most secret place in AmericaA story of secrecy, suspicion, and conspiracyA history of a place that does not legally exist Dreamland zooms in on Area 51--the nearly four million acres of Nevada airspace that has been a base for experimental...
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The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold WarRobert Kaplan, bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts, offers up scrupulous, far-ranging insights on the world to come in a spirited, rousing, and provocative book that has earned a place at the top of the reading lists of the world's policy makers. The end of...
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Millennials Rising: The Next Great GenerationBy the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, an incisive, in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982. In this remarkable account, certain to stir the interest of educators, counselors, parents, and people in all types of business as well as young people...
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an IdeaA New York Times Notable Book of 2016 Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that...
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Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin Into a Global BusinessAlpha Dogs is the story of the men behind an enormously influential campaign business called the Sawyer Miller Group, men who served as backroom strategists on every presidential contest from Richard M. Nixon's to Barack Obama's. David Sawyer was a New England aristocrat with...
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Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--And What We Should Do about ItA brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout values voters, it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis. With Divided...
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Homo Poeticus: Essays and InterviewsSerbian writer Danilo Kis was preoccupied with man's dehumanization in a mechanized, totalitarian world. His dazzling fiction established him as one of the most artful and eloquent authors of postwar Europe. In this first collection of his non-fiction, Kis displays the dynamic, sensitive, and...
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaWinner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-FictionLong-listed for the National Book AwardFinalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book PrizesOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for...
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The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic InjusticeIn the era of information and communication, issues of misinformation and miscommunication are more pressing than ever. Epistemic injustice - one of the most important and ground-breaking subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years - refers to those forms of unfair treatment...
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Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European ContextUkraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding...
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Beyond Public Administration: Contemplating and Nudging Government-In-ContextHow can public administration (P.A.) nudge government to govern fundamentally better in terms of policy? How critical is P.A. contemplation and nudges - prods, shoves or hammer blows - to government-in-context?In this book, David John Farmer argues that government-in-context refers to government-in-totality, to what...
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The History of Spiritualism: Volumes I and II - The Complete, Unabridged Aspects of Mediums and the Spirit WorldArthur Conan Doyle discusses how the spiritualism movement began and grew, and how he himself came to believe that talking with the spirits of the deceased was possible. The core tenet of spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the deceased can communicate...
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Workers' Councils: The Libertarian Socialist Philosophy of Workers' Self-Rule in Governing Local RegionsAnton Pannekoek discusses the viability of workers' councils as an effective means of administrating a socialist society, as contrasted to the centralized doctrines of state communism or state capitalism. Conceived as an alternative way to establish and sustain socialism, the workers councils have so...
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