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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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, TooIn an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and...
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The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to TrumpNot long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party's tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today, as Republicans denounce climate...
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The Politics of Not SpeakingAccording to a common conception, modern politics is based on speaking, on discussion and rational argumentation--on "logos." In contrast, The Politics of Not Speaking argues that politics is based not on speaking but on the suspension of conversation, on the break of rational discourse,...
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The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United StatesThe past twenty years have seen an explosion of state laws focused on bathroom access, including laws that both restrict and expand the ability of people to access basic needs in public. Through an analysis of several distinct state-level policies that regulate bathrooms along...
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The Olavo de Carvalho ReaderThe Olavo de Carvalho Reader, a far-reaching selection of philosophical essays by the celebrated Brazilian philosopher available for the first time in English, presents indispensable writings that have generated an intellectual revival in Brazil and beyond. Following Carvalho's definition of philosophy as the "search...
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The Mongols at China's Edge: History and the Politics of National UnityThis important study explores the multifaceted experience of Mongols in China, past and present, as their identity balances precariously between historical memory and their contemporary position as an ethnic minority. Uradyn E. Bulag assesses the intricate relationship between socialism and nationalism that generates both...
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The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and CapitalismThis short book demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and equips readers with practical tools to dismantle them and build a better world, bit by bit. Our society is constantly made to serve the needs of two systems: technology...
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The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law 1933-1937Definitive study of the NLRB as an administrative agency which became one of the most important political and legal developments in the last century as it influenced the growth of a national labor policy and the use of administrative processes and legal methods in...
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The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second ChancesIn the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.Kevin Fagan's The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco--one of the wealthiest cities in America--takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human...
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The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our WorldFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an "insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating" (Daily Express) book on today's space race--including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means...
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The Federalist Papers (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written to support the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787-88. The essays aimed to persuade a wary public of the...
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The Evolution of Humanitarian-Intervention in International Law: From the Ottoman Empire to the Russia-Ukraine WarThis book assesses whether humanitarian-intervention exists under customary international law. The main question being whether there is a right to humanitarian-intervention, and if so, according to what criteria, using historical analysis to determine its existence. By combining historical and legal methods running from the...
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The Diplomacy of Independence: Benjamin Franklin Documents in the Archives of SpainPresenting more than seventy documents from Spanish archives that provide a rare glimpse into Benjamin Franklin's connection to Spain. Although Benjamin Franklin never set foot in Spain, from 1774 until his death in 1790 he maintained contact and correspondence with a wide range of...
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The Covid Safety Handbook: Staying Safe In An Unsafe WorldCovid is "over," right? If only that were true.Thousands of studies now show in the clearest of terms that Covid's initial infection is just the tip of the iceberg. Yet confusion, misinformation, disinformation, and resistance toward prevention clouds nearly every aspect of this preventable...
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The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital AgeThis book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure.Author: Catherine HapperPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.21h x...
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The Changing Political South: How Minorities and Women Are Transforming the RegionThe phenomenal growth of minority populations in the U.S. South is quickly transforming the region's politics. Most political observers see the Democratic Party rising in the region, with increasingly Democratic-leaning women voters joining emergent populations of Asian and Latino voters and African American voters....
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The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesThe age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they...
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The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's SoulWINNER OF THE MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD FOR HISTORY - LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The "illuminating" (New Yorker) story of the Great Chicago Fire: a raging inferno, a harrowing fight for...
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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the PostcolonyCan ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts? The...
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The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the PostcolonyCan ignorance, mistake, failure shape ways of reading, or do they disrupt its proper practice? What happens when the authority of modern education and culture places canonical western texts in the way of readers who live in worlds remote from their material contexts?The Amateur...
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