Political Science
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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What MattersIn a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's Counting promises to transform how we think about numbers. Contrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are...
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An Especially Good View: Watching History HappenIn more than five decades as a reporter, editor and publisher, Peter Osnos has had an especially good view of momentous events and relationships with some of the most influential personalities of our time. As a young journalist for I.F. Stone's Weekly, one of...
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Manifeste pour briser les chaînes de l'usure: Nouvelle éditionGottfried Feder crivit en 1919 ce livre proph tique parce qu'il voulait alerter l'opinion allemande sur le risque d'hyperinflation. En 1923, lorsque la valeur du mark s'effondra, tout le monde put v rifier qu'il avait eu enti rement raison. Et 1929 aussi devait donner...
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Alberta: A Health System ProfileAlberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta's health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Drawing on significant wealth from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop...
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Extremist Mindsets and StrategiesPresenting an analysis of modern-day extremism, this book explores how any group of people or participants in a movement--political, ideological, racial, ethnonational, religious, or issue-driven--can adopt extremist mindsets if they believe their existence or interests are threatened. Looking beyond fringe resistance groups already labeled...
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The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court Is Reshaping AmericaWhat is a conservative Supreme Court doing with its power?From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the...
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Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal AusterityWhenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the...
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Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for JusticeMichel Paradis's Last Mission to Tokyo, a "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) and "engrossing...richly researched" (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreported moment in World War II: The Doolittle Raids and the international war crimes trial in 1945 that...
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The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War IIA bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War II The Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew--the roots of the Second World War--and upends our assumptions with a...
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Weapons of Our WarfarePutting on the armor of God has become a battle cry in the Church, but most Christians have no clue how to put it on in a way that unleashes its supernatural, Holy Spirit power. You might have the armor memorized, but what good...
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China's Economic Challenge: Unconventional SuccessThis book analyzes economic strategies responsible for China's 40 years of 40-fold growth, suggesting how such strategies might be applied elsewhere. It combines a seven-chapter chronological analysis of China's growth with three additional chapters on the government's leadership role, success in poverty reduction, and...
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Separated: Inside an American TragedyTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The seminal book on the child-separation policy." --Rachel MaddowNow in paperback, featuring updated reporting and a new afterword: The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind America's systematic separation of families at the US-Mexico border.Los Angeles Times...
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Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest DictatorshipDefying the Dragon tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC's authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi's China as unshakeable as it seems? What are its real interests in...
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Local Politics Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Making a DifferenceA political scientist's handy, entertaining guide to influencing and being effective in local and state politics, where vital decisions are made and it's easier to make a difference. It feels like politics counts more today than it ever has. At the same time, people...
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Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist PoliticsThe postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricatured...
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The King in Orange: The Magical and Occult Roots of Political PowerExplores the role of magic and the occult in the rise of the ultra-conservative right - Details the magical war that took place behind the scenes of the 2016 election - Examines in detail the failed magical actions of Trump's opponents, with insights on...
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Hong Kong Without Us: A People's PoetryHong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, the poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials--and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated...
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Victimology: The EssentialsVictimology: The Essentials, Third Edition, concisely explores the effects of victimization in the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations. Drawing from the most up-to-date research, this accessible, student-friendly text provides an overview of the field with a focus on the...
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The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American PoliticsNATIONAL BESTSELLER now in paperback, updated with a new afterword "This is the definitive account of what has gone wrong in our two-party system, and how our democracy has to adapt to survive it. I can't say it in strong enough terms: Read. This....
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EthicsSpinoza's God is totally bound by His own immutable laws, which are the laws of Nature."Ethics spells out the essence of Spinoza's philosophical system. It is doctrine that everything in the universe - Nature writ large - inheres in a single, perfect "Substance." This...
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