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.
-
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern LibertyIt is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications....
- €93,24 EUR
- €93,24 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Transcritique: On Kant and MarxKojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani's transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of...
- €81,59 EUR
- €81,59 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Human Rights at the UN: The Political History of Universal JusticeHuman rights activists Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi provide a broad political history of the emergence and development of the human rights movement in the 20th century through the crucible of the United Nations, focusing on the hopes and expectations, concrete power struggles, national...
- €57,12 EUR
- €57,12 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Confronting Injustice and Oppression: Concepts and Strategies for Social WorkersMore urgent than ever, David G. Gil's guiding text gives social workers the knowledge and confidence they need to change unjust realities. Clarifying the meaning, sources, and dynamics of injustice, exploitation, and oppression and certifying the place of the social worker in combating these...
- €93,24 EUR
- €93,24 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain SightThis unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar...
- €39,09 EUR
- €39,09 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Comparative Political Theory: An IntroductionPolitical theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in a global age. This text focuses on Islamic, Indian and Far Eastern civilizations, offering readings of classical teachings and contemporary...
- €230,75 EUR
- €230,75 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Differentiated Integration: Explaining Variation in the European Union"This innovative new text provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the study of European integration, focusing centrally on explaining the differentiated character of the European Union in terms of policy areas, institutional development and geographical span."--Publisher's website.Author: Dirk Leuffen, Berthold Rittberger, Frank SchimmelfennigPublisher: PalgravePublished: 10/03/2012Pages:...
- €103,02 EUR
- €103,02 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Media at WarNews media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be...
- €123,43 EUR
- €123,43 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Machiavelli's VirtueUniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately...
- €27,97 EUR
- €27,97 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
State of ExceptionTwo months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian...
- €53,62 EUR
- €53,62 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir SquareThe recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectual life, Egypt is a lynchpin of the US's Middle East strategy, receiving more aid than any nation except Israel....
- €26,51 EUR
- €26,51 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of EmpireAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism...
- €66,81 EUR
- €66,81 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal RightsZoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate...
- €79,62 EUR
- €79,62 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The English ConstitutionWalter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1867) is the best account of the history and workings of the British political system ever written. As arguments raged in mid-Victorian Britain about giving the working man the vote, and democracies overseas were pitched into despotism and civil...
- €19,51 EUR
- €19,51 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Eighteenth Century in Sikh History: Political Resurgence, Religious and Social Life, and Cultural ArticulationThe eighteenth century in Sikh history stands for a political revolution in which the erstwhile peasants and artisans who had joined the Khalsa order instituted by Guru Gobind Singh replaced first the Mughal and then the Afghan authority in the province of Lahore (Punjab)....
- €166,10 EUR
- €166,10 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Gypsy 'Menace': Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy PoliticsAcross Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community or nation, finds in the Roma a suitable target population to which...
- €121,80 EUR
- €121,80 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and MathematiciansThe Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Guide for Scientists, Engineers, and Mathematicians shows college and university faculty members how to draw on their disciplinary knowledge and teaching experience to investigate questions about student learning. It takes readers all the way through the inquiry...
- €177,16 EUR
- €177,16 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Karl Marx: Selected WritingsThis second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical, and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of Marx's life, allowing readers to trace the development...
- €256,39 EUR
- €256,39 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured WorldToday between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international...
- €23,70 EUR
- €23,70 EUR
- Unit price
- per
-
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929.Author: Stephen F. CohenPublisher: Oxford University...
- €65,15 EUR
- €65,15 EUR
- Unit price
- per
