Political Science
-
One Ranger: A MemoirWhen his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good...
- CHF 38.50
- CHF 38.50
- Unit price
- per
-
Being EcologicalA book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that...
- CHF 21.10
- CHF 21.10
- Unit price
- per
-
What Is Political Philosophy? and Other StudiesAll political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their...
- CHF 72.76
- CHF 72.76
- Unit price
- per
-
Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe V. WadeOn April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far...
- CHF 55.48
- CHF 55.48
- Unit price
- per
-
Democracy: A Very Short IntroductionNo political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all "democracies" allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises. This book is a short account of the history...
- CHF 15.80
- CHF 15.80
- Unit price
- per
-
Citizenship: A Very Short IntroductionInterest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of industry and every kind of campaigning group--from those supporting global causes, such as tackling world poverty, to others with a largely local focus, such...
- CHF 15.80
- CHF 15.80
- Unit price
- per
-
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen RevisitedFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice...
- CHF 22.41
- CHF 22.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese StateIn The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the...
- CHF 26.39
- CHF 26.39
- Unit price
- per
-
What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explainsIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician's life. From getting elected to staying elected, from working the in the legislature to helping constituents...
- CHF 14.53
- CHF 14.53
- Unit price
- per
-
Commercial Space Capabilities and Market Overview: The Relationship Between Commercial Space Developments and the U.S. Department of DefenseAs the commercial space industry continues to grow in capability, capacity, and diversity, opportunities for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the U.S. Department of Defense to leverage commercial space capabilities are expanding. In this review of commercial space capabilities that could support the...
- CHF 55.51
- CHF 55.51
- Unit price
- per
-
The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization...
- CHF 65.38
- CHF 65.38
- Unit price
- per
-
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent WorldA clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today The United States remains "the indispensable nation." In this book, the distinguished international relations theorist and foreign policy specialist Robert Lieber argues that in a world...
- CHF 57.88
- CHF 57.88
- Unit price
- per
-
Washington BulletsWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could...
- CHF 34.78
- CHF 34.78
- Unit price
- per
-
The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940sA sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era. The golden key to understanding the last 75 years of American political development, the eminent labor relations scholar Michael Goldfield argues, lies in the contests between labor and capital in the American...
- CHF 58.54
- CHF 58.54
- Unit price
- per
-
Liberating Revolution: Emancipating Radical Change from the StateLiberating Revolution challenges the idea that we understand what revolution is. All current understandings of revolution are different ways of portraying the state. To liberate revolution, we must explain radical change without determining its course or limiting what it can do. Nathan Eckstrand reviews...
- CHF 69.00
- CHF 69.00
- Unit price
- per
-
Advanced Battle Management System: Needs, Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Facing the Department of the Air ForceThe U.S. Department of Defense is pursuing an improved ability to more closely integrate and operate jointly against agile adversaries through Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). This framework will seamlessly integrate sensors, networks, platforms, commanders, operators, and weapon systems for rapid information collection,...
- CHF 59.53
- CHF 59.53
- Unit price
- per
-
The Last Noble Gendarme: How the Tsar's Last Head of Security and Intelligence Tried to Avert the Russian RevolutionThe Last Noble Gendarme is the first biography of Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and his wife, Sofia. Tsar Nicholas II's last chief of security, Globachev was an eyewitness to the seething turmoil in the capital of the Russian Empire. Beginning in 1915 he...
- CHF 46.49
- CHF 46.49
- Unit price
- per
-
Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to ResistSusan Sontag meets Hanif Abdurraqib in this fascinating exploration of the unexpected connections between how we consume images and the insidious nature of Fascism. Images come at us quickly, often without context. A photograph of Syrian children suffering in the wake of a chemical...
- CHF 22.41
- CHF 22.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Book Banning in 21st-Century AmericaRequests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books-also known as challenges-occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st-Century American Libraries, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States argues that understanding...
- CHF 77.17
- CHF 77.17
- Unit price
- per
-
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent...
- CHF 29.08
- CHF 29.08
- Unit price
- per