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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Debating African Issues: Conversations Under the Palaver TreeThis debate style textbook allows students to explore diverse, well-founded views on controversial African issues, pushing them to go beyond superficial interpretations and complicate and ground their understanding of the continent. From the positive images in the film Black Panther, to the derogatory remarks...
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The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, Ai, and the False Promise of Bodies and NumbersAn investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency. Today, conspiracy theories run rampant, attacks on facts have become commonplace, and systemic inequities are on the rise as individual and collective agency unravels. The Alienation of...
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Global Visions of Violence: Agency and Persecution in World ChristianityIn Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the...
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Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New ZealandAn undergraduate textbook situating environmental politics and policy in the unique institutional, cultural, and resource context of Aotearoa.Author: Julie L. MacArthurPublisher: Auckland University PressPublished: 09/08/2022Pages: 408Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781869409524
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Nuclear JapanThese observations are based upon the premise that, with war having been a constant feature of humankind's evolution, a nation's security and prosperity are inextricably linked with its military strength. To illustrate the point, the author compares the revered historical cities of Venice and...
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Cheers, MR Churchill!: Winston in ScotlandIn 1922 Winston Churchill prepared to defend his parliamentary seat of Dundee in the General Election. He had represented the city since 1908, enjoyed a majority of more than 15,000 and, after five previous victories, confidently described it as a 'life seat'. But one...
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Rebooting Local Economies: How to Build Prosperous CommunitiesA prosperous future for your community is in your hands!Make your community a better place to live, work and play!Why do some communities thrive and grow while others struggle and decline? Smart communities know how to attract and nurture the kinds of businesses and...
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Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy: Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and Necropolitics in Bolsonaro's BrazilIn this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021,...
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The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649-1653English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era, The Political Thought...
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The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of BetrayalHoward Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.--New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case--and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career--in this compulsive...
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Gonzo Wall Street: Riots, Radicals, Racism and Revolution: How the Go-Go Bankers of the 1960s Crashed the Financial System and BamboozledThe long-hidden history of how the corrupt Wall Street investment banks of the 1960s held Congress over a barrel and got an outrageous taxpayer-funded bailout of what they owed their customers--and how little Congress and the SEC got from Wall Street in return. This...
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Communism's Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East GermanyCommunism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discussions shifted to spaces of art: theaters, galleries, concert halls, and youth clubs. Kyrill Kunakhovich shows how these venues turned into sites...
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The YMCA in Late Colonial India: Modernization, Philanthropy and American Soft Power in South AsiaThis book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia. Focusing on interactions between American 'Y' workers and the local population, representatives of the British colonial state, and a host of international actors, it...
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Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and BeyondA #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the Taliban began terrorizing Afghan security forces, civilians and the government in Kabul. By August 2021, the group had seized control...
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Just War and Christian TraditionsThis much-needed anthology contains historically informed insights and analysis about Christian just war thinking and its application to contemporary conflicts.Recent Christian reflection on war has largely ignored questions of whether and how war can be just. The contributors to Just War and Christian Traditions...
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Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal SocialismHow workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for today. For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At...
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Contesting Masculinities and Women's Agency in KashmirWhat is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the non-state actors in the Kashmir...
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Pawtucket Red Sox: How Rhode Island Lost Its Home TeamThe Pawtucket Red Sox were one of the country's premier AAA baseball teams, and for forty-five years they called Rhode Island home. In February 2015, a group of investors purchased the team from the widow of beloved owner Ben Mondor and longtime executives Mike...
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Seven Ways to Fix Policing NOW: Building Trust, Authentic Partnerships, and Safe CommunitiesThis practical guide to policing reform presents a call to action to address a threefold crisis in policing - a catastrophic loss of trust between police and the communities they serve; a sharp increase in violent crime after decades of decline; and a serious...
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The Human Rights Imperative in Teacher Education: Developing Compassion, Understanding, and AdvocacyHuman rights education (HRE) is a worldwide movement designed to place human rights at the center of K-university educational theory and practice, providing a critical foundation for global citizenship education, social justice and diversity education, and equity-based schooling reforms. Readers will learn how: (1)...
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