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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A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern DemocracyA leading historian reveals the radical origins of humanity's most cherished secular values Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in...
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Karl Marx's Theory of History: A DefenceFirst published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship...
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The Political Ideas of St. Thomas AquinasOriginally published in The Hafner Library of Classics in 1953, The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas provides important insights into the human side of one of the most influential medieval philosophers. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1226-1274) is recognized for having synthesized Christian theology...
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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook CatastropheOne of the Financial Times' Best Business Books of 2019 The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society--and sets out...
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Hegel: Elements of the Philosophy of RightThis book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel's last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory, and the sociology...
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Augustine: The City of God Against the PagansThis is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God, the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilization. Robert Dyson has produced a complete, accurate, authoritative and fluent translation of De...
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Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in CaliforniaThis book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field--together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck--dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants...
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Facing the Heat Barrier: A History of HypersonicsThis volume from The NASA History Series presents an overview of the science of hypersonics, the study of flight at speeds at which the physics of flows is dominated by aerodynamic heating. The survey begins during the years immediately following World War II, with...
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The Fall of the Berlin WallEloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism.--The Baltimore SunBuckley's lucid account celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the will to achieve freedom.--Publishers WeeklyThis...
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Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against HitlerThe heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled Hitler's Pope -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies...
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July 1914: Countdown to WarWhen a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, It is God's will. Certainly, there was nothing...
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New UtopiaFrom Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology--sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast airports and green spaces--to address the basic challenges faced by massive, interconnected metropolitan centers. In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the...
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy AnalysisAuthor: Richard R. NelsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 01/01/1977Pages: 164Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9780393091731About the AuthorNelson, Richard R.: - Richard R. Nelson is a professor of economics and leading figure in the field of evolutionary economics.
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The Working Poor: Invisible in AmericaNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now."...
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung: The Little Red BookThese quotations from the writings and speeches of Mao Tse-tung, the father of Chinese communism, offer a rare and penetrating insight into the political and philosophic thought of one of the most hated and revered men to ever have lived. This is a classic...
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Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's...
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Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane JacobsThe first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice,...
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Defying Hitler: A MemoirWritten in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country...
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went TabloidNow a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh Jackman An NPR Best Book of the Year In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart--a dashing, reform-minded Democrat--seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits...
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Five Days in London, May 1940Washington Post Book World Bestseller "Customers are raving about Five Days in London."--Amazon.com "Gripping. . . . Lucaks's story is not new . . . but he] has transformed it into a memorable drama."--M.F. Perutz, New York Review of Books The days from May...
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