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.
-
You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the DreamersShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk--even for those born on US soil. Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and...
- CHF 22.51
- CHF 22.51
- Unit price
- per
-
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West"'Return of the Strong Gods, '...is a thoughtful contribution to American political debate. It is incisively written and full of modern observations. Mr. Reno explains, better than any book I can remember, the present-day progressive's paranoid fear of fascism and neurotic determination to ferret...
- CHF 22.57
- CHF 22.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Salazar and His Work: Essays on Political PhilosophyThree attributes should be essential to anyone in public office: intelligence, integrity and dedication. If it is not an easy task to identify one of these qualities in a politician, much more difficult it would be to find two, and highly improbable to have...
- CHF 15.85
- CHF 15.85
- Unit price
- per
-
Fighting the Fleet: Operational Art and Modern Fleet CombatFighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouting, and basing--and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and...
- CHF 59.67
- CHF 59.67
- Unit price
- per
-
Reflections on the Revolution in FranceReflections on the Revolution in France offers provocative political commentary from the British statesman Edmund Burke, that examines the early stages of the French Revolution. It's a searing criticism of those in and outside formal government who support the movement's unconventional methods. The French...
- CHF 21.23
- CHF 21.23
- Unit price
- per
-
Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements MatterTraditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by inequality, social...
- CHF 38.11
- CHF 38.11
- Unit price
- per
-
Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic EqualityA thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think. Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result,...
- CHF 66.43
- CHF 66.43
- Unit price
- per
-
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate ScienceA unique, highly readable approach to the environmental crisis, with alternating chapters outlining the effects on society if left unchecked, and the radical actions we can take to prevent it Now includes updated sections on COVID-19 and COP26 The environmental emergency is the greatest...
- CHF 30.91
- CHF 30.91
- Unit price
- per
-
The Durian ChroniclesThe curious durian fruit, both delicious and stinky, is the embodiment of dissonance. Author Sally Tyler uses the fruit's dual nature as a metaphor for exploring the dissonance inherent in recent policy and political trends in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Such dissonance is...
- CHF 22.51
- CHF 22.51
- Unit price
- per
-
Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to AbolitionistFor years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back burner to what Martin Luther King Jr. called the tension-free, ordered ""negative peace"" of white moderates. Then Michael Brown, a Black man, was murdered by a...
- CHF 22.57
- CHF 22.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from PetrocultureA graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to helpbreak our petroleum dependency What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to...
- CHF 21.19
- CHF 21.19
- Unit price
- per
-
The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British EmpireThe British Empire, one of the most powerful forces in history, was also one of the most humane. Yet at its twilight, few were willing to defy the anti-colonial reaction that condemned millions to despotism under the regimes that replaced it. Sir Alan Burns...
- CHF 38.51
- CHF 38.51
- Unit price
- per
-
After the End of History: Conversations with Francis FukuyamaA series of in-depth interviews between Francis Fukuyama and editor Mathilde Fasting, After the End of History grants unprecedented access to one of the greatest political minds of our time. Drawing on his work on identity, biotechnology, and political order, Fukuyama provides essential insight...
- CHF 38.67
- CHF 38.67
- Unit price
- per
-
Walden or Life in the Woods: a book by transcendentalist Henry David ThoreauWalden or Life in the Woods By Henry David ThoreauWalden is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire,...
- CHF 28.27
- CHF 28.27
- Unit price
- per
-
Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique of the Contemporary Left'Ben Burgis has written a clarifying, humorous and sharp as hell wake up call for the left, and political culture at large. Read this book...'Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks ShowBetween the decline of the labor movement, the aftershocks of the falls of...
- CHF 22.51
- CHF 22.51
- Unit price
- per
-
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew JohnsonWhen Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the country was on the precipice of radical change. Johnson, seemingly more progressive than Lincoln, looked like the ideal person to lead the country. He had already cast himself as a "Moses" for the...
- CHF 35.80
- CHF 35.80
- Unit price
- per
-
A Quick History of Politics: From Pharaohs to Fair VotesHow did ancient people make decisions? How do the people in power stay in power? Why did Karl Marx have to go without trousers? A Quick History of Politics answers these questions and more, taking a ride through time from plutocrats to people power....
- CHF 19.91
- CHF 19.91
- Unit price
- per
-
Canadian Agriculture in the 21st Century: Change and ChallengeThe Canadian Farming Community is facing numerous ongoing challenges, including rapidly changing technologies, the gradual erosion of the rural lifestyle, growing consumer concerns about the healthiness of food, and growing environmental concerns (including climate change).This book begins with an historic overview of agriculture in...
- CHF 66.41
- CHF 66.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone BadA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century. We think we know the story of Africa's Great...
- CHF 42.51
- CHF 42.51
- Unit price
- per
-
The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political HeresiesFrom public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, "a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage" (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal...
- CHF 26.35
- CHF 26.35
- Unit price
- per