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.
-
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats Are Transforming the Marketplace of IdeasThe public intellectual has a long and storied history. Previously, the public intellectual was always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought...
- Dhs. 107.38 AED
- Dhs. 107.38 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe ThemConspiracy theories are inevitable in complex human societies. And while they have always been with us, their ubiquity in our political discourse is nearly unprecedented. Their salience has increased for a variety of reasons including the increasing access to information among ordinary people, a...
- Dhs. 323.46 AED
- Dhs. 323.46 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- And What It Means for Our FutureFrom the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale...
- Dhs. 297.86 AED
- Dhs. 297.86 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic StateHow has Islamic State been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this compelling intervention into the debate about Islamic...
- Dhs. 229.70 AED
- Dhs. 229.70 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Modern Latin AmericaNow thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, it uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and patterns of development in the region over...
- Dhs. 807.34 AED
- Dhs. 807.34 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic ReasonKarl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But...
- Dhs. 134.28 AED
- Dhs. 134.28 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Out of Harm's Way: Creating an Effective Child Welfare SystemDespite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of...
- Dhs. 200.66 AED
- Dhs. 200.66 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume...
- Dhs. 102.03 AED
- Dhs. 102.03 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
One Child: Do We Have a Right to More?A compelling argument for the morality of limitations on procreation in lessening the harmful environmental effects of unchecked population We live in a world where a burgeoning global population has started to have a major and destructive environmental impact. The results, including climate change...
- Dhs. 225.78 AED
- Dhs. 225.78 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Age of Iron: On Conservative NationalismThe rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the presidency advocating a hardline nationalist approach. Yet critics frequently misunderstand the Trump administration's foreign policy, along with American...
- Dhs. 306.42 AED
- Dhs. 306.42 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War But Lost the PeaceWhen South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment....
- Dhs. 297.86 AED
- Dhs. 297.86 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the PresentA majestic narrative reckoning with the forces that have shaped the nature and destiny of the world's governing institutions The story of global cooperation is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity's worst problems. But international institutions are...
- Dhs. 125.60 AED
- Dhs. 125.60 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax SystemNew York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way. The U.S. tax code is a...
- Dhs. 106.78 AED
- Dhs. 106.78 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Café Europa: Life After Communism"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." --Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But...
- Dhs. 106.78 AED
- Dhs. 106.78 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South RememberedThe almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From...
- Dhs. 113.08 AED
- Dhs. 113.08 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Great Society: A New HistoryThe New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges."Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high...
- Dhs. 216.70 AED
- Dhs. 216.70 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Patriot of PersiaThe Economist's Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted in the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and a man...
- Dhs. 97.56 AED
- Dhs. 97.56 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right"As engaging as it is provocative. . . . Sullivan's book should be read closely by liberals as well as conservatives." -- Jonathan Raban, The New York Review of BooksOne of the nation's leading political commentators makes an impassioned call to rescue conservatism from...
- Dhs. 94.11 AED
- Dhs. 94.11 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China Volume 4A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The rise of China and India could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will the foreign policies of China and India look like in the future?...
- Dhs. 313.55 AED
- Dhs. 313.55 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Apologies and Moral Repair: Rights, Duties, and Corrective JusticeThis book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop...
- Dhs. 475.04 AED
- Dhs. 475.04 AED
- Unit price
- per
