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.
-
Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic, Third EditionIn this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six, Deng Xiaoping and the Origins of Chinese Capitalism: 1976-1998, analyzes...
- CHF 66.45
- CHF 66.45
- Unit price
- per
-
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel Hierarchical ModelsData Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models is a comprehensive manual for the applied researcher who wants to perform data analysis using linear and nonlinear regression and multilevel models. The book introduces a wide variety of models, whilst at the same time instructing the...
- CHF 120.37
- CHF 120.37
- Unit price
- per
-
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation Volume 29Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges...
- CHF 36.35
- CHF 36.35
- Unit price
- per
-
Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary WritingsOne of the few members of the Russian aristocracy to become a revolutionary, Prince Peter Kropotkin (1842‒1921) renounced his title at the age of 12. He later became one of the leading theorists of anarchism. Forced to flee his homeland in the 1870s to...
- CHF 22.86
- CHF 22.86
- Unit price
- per
-
Two Treatises of GovernmentJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority except by the consent of the people. When rulers became tyrants and act...
- CHF 13.42
- CHF 13.42
- Unit price
- per
-
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class WarYears before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor -- and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowledged class war. By turns tender, incendiary, and seriously funny,...
- CHF 22.93
- CHF 22.93
- Unit price
- per
-
The Forever WarNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs--an instant classic of war reporting from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins,...
- CHF 28.34
- CHF 28.34
- Unit price
- per
-
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 39.27
- CHF 39.27
- 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 21.52
- CHF 21.52
- 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 74.20
- CHF 74.20
- 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 56.58
- CHF 56.58
- 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 16.11
- CHF 16.11
- 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 16.11
- CHF 16.11
- 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 22.86
- CHF 22.86
- 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 26.91
- CHF 26.91
- 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 14.82
- CHF 14.82
- 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 56.61
- CHF 56.61
- 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 66.67
- CHF 66.67
- 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 59.02
- CHF 59.02
- 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 35.47
- CHF 35.47
- Unit price
- per