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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Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global CrisisTsawalk, or "one," expresses the Nuu-chah-nulth view that all living things - human, plant, and animal - form part of an integrated whole brought into harmony through constant negotiation and mutual respect. In this book, Umeek argues that contemporary environmental and political crises and...
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Neoliberalism and Everyday LifeIlluminating the ways in which neoliberal policies - such as the deregulation of economies and the transfer of governmental responsibilities to the private sector - have been implemented on a global scale, the contributors show how neoliberalism has seeped into our social and political...
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight PlaguesA sweeping examination of how germs have played a starring role in the most significant transformations in history, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the creation of world religions and the birth of capitalism. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have...
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End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global CorporationIn September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor chips, companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard...
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The Stasi Files Unveiled: Guilt and Compliance in a Unified GermanyIn 1992 the massive files of East Germany's infamous Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, were made publicly available and thousands of former East Germans began to confront their contents. Finally it was possible for ordinary citizens to ascertain who had worked for the...
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The Good SocietyThe Good Society is a critical text in the history of liberalism. Initially a series of articles published in a variety of Lippmann's favorite magazines, as the whole evolved, it became a frontal assault against totalitarian tendencies within American society. Lippmann took to task...
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Peace & War: A Theory of International RelationsPeace and War by Raymond Aron is one of the greatest books ever written on international relations. Aron's starting point is the state of nature that exists between nations, a condition that differs essentially from the civil state that holds within political communities. Ever...
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Race and Social Equity: A Nervous Area of GovernmentIn this compelling book the author contends that social equity--specifically racial equity--is a nervous area of government. Over the course of history, this nervousness has stifled many individuals and organizations, thus leading to an inability to seriously advance the reduction of racial inequities in...
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Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service LeadershipThis book shows students entering the public service as well as professionals in the field how to become ethically competent to provide the leadership needed to advance the public interest. The book doesn't just talk about ethics. The contributors describe how ethical competence should...
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WarriorThe press called him a real-life James Bond. Fidel Castro called him the most dangerous CIA agent. History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission. Frank Sturgis--using more than thirty aliases and code names--trained guerilla armies...
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Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World's ConscienceA powerful way to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, this book reminds us of its impact and each of its 30 principles, using intriguing art quilts. Sometimes taking us by surprise, the 75 textile artists visualize the global...
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The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras: 1945-1995This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a history that could only have been written by the veteran KGB technical intelligence officers who created and used the cameras in secret...
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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: The Illustrated History of America's Legendary Mach 3 Spy PlaneThe legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was, and still is, the world's only operational Mach 3 aircraft, and was designed, built, and tested by Lockheed's famed "Skunk Works." This new book covers all fifty Blackbirds built, from the first flight in 1962, to the...
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Flags of the WorldThe flag is a country's national symbol and is far more than a mere banner. It reflects that country's independence, the citizens, and their social views. As such, a flag is treated with respect, defended, and given a military salute. As so much is...
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Public Information Technology and E-Governance: Managing the Virtual State: Managing the Virtual StateWritten by a leading scholar of public information systems, Public Information Technology and E-Governance is a comprehensive, well-balanced and up-to-date resource on public information technology and e-government. Based on thousands of academic and practitioner studies and reports, this book provides policy information on e-democracy,...
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Media Relations for Public Safety ProfessionalsAs most public safety professionals are aware, the events that require emergency response personnel also frequently attract members of the news media. Covering such essential topics as press releases, the types of media, and interviewing techniques, this book provides public safety professionals with the...
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Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist ExtremismMaajid Nawaz spent his teenage years listening to American hip-hop and learning about the radical Islamist movement spreading throughout Europe and Asia in the 1980s and 90s. At 16, he was already a ranking member in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Islamist group. He quickly...
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Jailed for Freedom: A First-Person Account of the Militant Fight for Women's RightsThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the militant suffragists who...
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Defending Latina/O Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and BeyondA collection of short essays and stories, Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Using his rigorous academic training, public policy knowledge, and...
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A Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not EnoughA Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between...
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