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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The South: Jim Crow and Its AfterlivesA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a...
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Delusion and Mass Delusion2021 Reprint of the 1949 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Meerloo's best-known book is Rape of the Mind, published in 1956. The book received wide attention in part because it dealt with totalitarian applications of...
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It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other storiesIn It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime. Make no mistake...
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy FutureA revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must be completely reimagined for our fast-approaching energy future. America's electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for...
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Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to ModernSettlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an...
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Justice on the Brink: A Requiem for the Supreme CourtThe gripping story of the Supreme Court's transformation from a measured institution of law and justice into a highly politicized body dominated by a right-wing supermajority, told through the dramatic lens of its most transformative year, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning law columnist for The...
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-EsteemWorld-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day.Why do so many African-Americans--whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young...
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Human Rights: A Very Short IntroductionToday it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This...
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Relentless: A Gold Star Father's Pursuit of TruthRelentless: A Gold Star Father's Pursuit of Truth of Extortion 17 Charles's son, Michael Strange, was a top cryptologist and SEAL Team 6 member on the Osama Bin Laden raid in 2011. Three months later on August 6, 2011, Michael was killed in Afghanistan...
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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic DisasterThe inside story, told with "insight, perspective, and stellar reporting," of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved the American economy from a second Great Depression (Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair...
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Karl Marxâ (Tm)S Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political EconomyReveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx's writings Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world's most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a "Promethean." According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief...
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The Last Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Sunset of an American Ruling ClassThe Book of Record Regarding the WASP Aristocracy and its Legacy ...From the Medieval chivalric code of the gentleman to the Ivy-covered quads of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale. "In a style that echoes the great John McFee, Hutter clearly explains the under-appreciated importance of...
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale" (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who created the world's greatest empire--and then lost it all. "An essential addition...
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A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and SurvivalThis extraordinary memoir shares an insight into the lives of the Uyghurs, a people and culture being systematically destroyed by China--and a woman who gave up everything to help her people. In February 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja's family disappeared overnight. Her crime...
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World Order"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." --Walter Isaacson, TimeAn astute analysis that illuminates many of today's critical international issues. --Kirkus Reviews Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing...
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From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern AsiaWhy some of Asia's authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer--and why others haven't Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization--a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world's poorest regions...
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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix ItA groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE - "Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is...
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In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague YearIN TRUMP TIME, tells the story of a President who worked night and day for the American people, who built the strongest economy in modern history, and fought the Covid pandemic by working with the private sector to deliver PPE, therapeutics and vaccines at...
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American DreamAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story...
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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted AideIn time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life...
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