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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Through the India-China BorderThrough the India-China Border mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Focused on the Himalayan border town of Kalimpong from the 1920s to 1962, it unearths...
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Three Years Our Mayor: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San FranciscoThose who recognize Mayor George Moscone's name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there was much more to this influential and fascinating man's story. He was a trailblazing progressive and powerful state legislator who...
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The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War IIA history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets "A great book."--Michael Goodman, BBC History Magazine "An astonishing story of wartime espionage."--Robert Hutton, author of Agent Jack At...
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The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American FoundingIn time for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, a bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real--from a formidable new voice in political journalism. Frustrated with our political dysfunction, wearied by the thinness of contemporary political discourse, and...
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The Rebel's Playbook: A How-To Guide for ResistanceThe Rebel's Playbook: A How-To Guide for Resistance is your no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners manual for standing up to authoritarianism and keeping freedom alive. Forget doomscrolling and despair-this guide is packed with inspiring stories of badass women throughout history who stared fascism in the face and...
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The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Ecology Can Change the WorldA comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order--which values our collective future over immediate economic gains The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature--for joy, for...
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The Other Public Lands: Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States' Natural Resource LandsFor most Americans, state lands are the most readily accessible type of public land; however, despite their ubiquity, they remain largely terra incognita. The Other Public Lands is a primer on state public lands and the political dynamics that underlie their management. Offering a...
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The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselvesNearly 80 years ago, Karl Popper gave a spirited philosophical defence of the Open Society in his two-volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies. In this book, J. McKenzie Alexander argues that a new defence is urgently needed because, in the decades since...
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The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and DemandRadical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very quickly. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change as quickly. Vicente Valentim argues that the role of social norms as drivers of political behavior is crucial for understanding these...
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The Mission: The CIA in the 21st CenturyThe epic successor to Tim Weiner's National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century, reaching from 9/11 through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to today's battles with Russia and China--and with the...
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The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi ArabiaBased on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher,...
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The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian ViolenceGroundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention The notion of a humanitarian "lesser evil" has become instrumental in justifying the West's military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible in conflict. It determines the minimum requirements of...
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The LawDiscover the timeless wisdom of Frederic Bastiat in The Law, a powerful treatise on justice, liberty, and the role of government. Written in 1850, this influential work explores the fundamental principles of legal systems and the protection of individual rights against the overreach of...
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The Jefferson BibleAkashic Books announces a provocative series of books with early writings from United States presidents, starting with George Washington and moving chronologically forward in time. Each book will present an introduction by a talented and highly acclaimed contemporary writer. This series will be unlike...
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The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of RageA "timely and brilliant original" (Michael B. Mukasey, former US attorney general) look at freedom of speech--our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Free speech is a human right, and the free expression of thought is at the very...
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The Housing Monster, Second EditionA house is more than four walls and a roof. From its design and production to the way it is sold, used, resold, and eventually demolished, it is crisscrossed by conflict.The Housing Monster is a scathing graphic guide that takes one seemingly simple, everyday...
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The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary MemorialsInterrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continents--Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America--this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested...
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our TimeIn this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social...
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The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930sBetween the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is...
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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special ForcesA groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America's largest military base, and what the crimes reveal about drug-trafficking and impunity among elite special operations soldiers Two dead bodies were discovered in a forested area of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2020....
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