Political Science
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural RevolutionYang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...
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Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's RoleLeading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality. Economic inequality is the defining issue of our time. In the United States, the wealth share of the top 1% has risen from 25% in the late...
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This Land Is My Land: Rebellion in the WestAmong American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all. But in the American West, the federal government owns and oversees vast patches of land, complicating the narrative of...
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The Tiger Tank and Allied Intelligence: Grosstraktor to Tiger 231, 1926-1943THE TIGER TANK was dramatically more powerful than any other tank when deployed in 1942. Why were the Allies taken by surprise? How did the Germans preserve its secrets? After 20 years of research on three continents, across 25 battle maps, 31 tables of...
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Don't Lie to Me: And Stop Trying to Steal Our FreedomJudge Jeanine Pirro, author of two New York Times bestsellers, exposes the lies and distortions of the president's enemies.It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She...
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A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social OrderPutting police power into the centre of the picture of capitalism The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the...
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Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online NetworksWhile social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful political groups. Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Lee look at...
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The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right DiscourseFar-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work?...
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Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and TerrorBlind Trust is the culmination of more than three decades of profound immersion in the most pressing sociopolitical conflicts of our time, by the psychoanalyst with probably the most direct experience with such issues of any in the world. Author Vamik Volkan applies his...
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The PrinceThat Machiavelli's name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince--the world's preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous,...
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The Ground KisserAfter the fall of Saigon, Thanh's family's wealth vanished at the stroke of a pen. Her parents had to make the agonizing decision whether stay together as a family with six children and languish in poverty, or use the little money they had to...
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Ici, Radio-FranceEdition originale non censur e. Un tr s grand nombre d'amis connus et inconnus m'ont exprim le d sir de retrouver imprim es les causeries que je donne chaque semaine la radio. Je me suis d cid r pondre ce voeu, puisque mes correspondants...
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The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of JusticeWINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA! Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate development From state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform...
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Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century AmericaEvery day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the government for those who cannot afford private counsel. Though often taken for granted, the modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that...
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Political Science Is for Everybody: An Introduction to Political Sciencepolitical science is for everybody is the first intersectionality-mainstreamed textbook written for introductory political science courses. While political science and politics are for everybody, political institutions are neither neutral nor unbiased. When we write political science textbooks that obscure the differences in how groups...
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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap LivesFor decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of...
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A Concise History of Imperial RussiaThis book presents a concise history of Imperial Russia from the perspectives of geopolitics, system of government, social structure and military history. While eschewing any explicit grand generaliztions about the causes of that empire's demise in 1917, the author offers a fresh perspecive on...
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Strike for the Common Good: Fighting for the Future of Public EducationIn February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce--followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma...
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The Black Banners (Declassified): How Torture Derailed the War on Terror After 9/11Widely heralded on publication as a must-read (Military Review) and important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda (Washington Post), Ali Soufan's revelatory account of the war on terror as seen from its front lines changed the way we understand al-Qaeda and how the United...
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Home: Social Essays"Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negro--and always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bold. He demands rights--not conditional favors."--The New York Times Book Review In 2007, Akashic Books ushered Amiri Baraka back into the forefront of America's literary consciousness with the short...
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