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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White Lawyer, Black Power: A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep SouthInspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years.In White Lawyer,...
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The Use of History in Putin's RussiaHistory is not just a study of past events, but a product and an idea for the modernisation and consolidation of the nation. 'The Use of History in Putin's Russia' examines how the past is perceived in contemporary Russia and analyses the ways in...
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Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration*L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist* *New York Times Book Review Paperback Row**New York Times Books to Watch for in July**Time Best New Books July 2020* Galvanized by her work in our nation's jails, psychiatrist Christine Montross illuminates the human cost of mass incarceration and...
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Selected Writings on MarxismThroughout his career Stuart Hall engaged with Marxism in varying ways, actively rethinking it to address the political and cultural exigencies of the moment. This collection of Hall's key writings on Marxism surveys the questions central to his interpretations of and investments in Marxist...
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The Great Smog of China: A Short Event History of Air PollutionThe Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the authors' fieldwork, interviews and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons...
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The American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural DissidentsRestricted to the shorthand of "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues...
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Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health: A Practical GuidePerformance management can be an uncomfortable topic within the discipline of public health. Written by leaders in public health performance management and quality improvement, this book carefully explains what public health performance management is - and makes a strong case for why it is...
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Exercising Control of the Sea: Theory and PracticeThis book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control...
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Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European UnionRussia's use of its vast energy resources for leverage against post-Soviet states such as Ukraine is widely recognized as a threat. Yet we cannot understand this danger without also understanding the opportunity that Russian energy represents. From corruption-related profits to transportation-fee income to subsidized...
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Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs PsychoanalysisDoes critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by contemporary critical theorists such as J rgen Habermas and...
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The Sustainable CityLiving sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. Economic, technological, and cultural forces are moving people out of rural areas and into urban areas. If we are to avert climate...
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Histories of Racial CapitalismThe relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism--since...
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The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a CatastropheWHAT JUST HAPPENED? The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That's the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars--a biologist, a statistician, and a philosopher-- in this comprehensive assessment of the worst panic-induced disaster in history. As...
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Dragged Off: Refusing to Give Up My Seat on the Way to the American Dream (Social Injustice and Racism in America)A Vietnamese Refugee, a Viral Video, and the United Airlines Scandal That Started It All"His refusal to give up his seat on a United Airlines flight, and the ensuing assault he suffered, is emblematic of how far we, the people, still have to travel...
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Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal IdentitySteve Ditko (1927-2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New...
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Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized RegimesHow do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns of regime institutionalization, this book studies the emergence of constitutional term limits and succession...
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Achieving Person-Centred Health Systems: Evidence, Strategies and ChallengesThe idea of person-centred health systems is widely advocated in political and policy declarations to better address health system challenges. A person-centred approach is advocated on political, ethical and instrumental grounds and believed to benefit service users, health professionals and the health system more...
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Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing FieldA bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large. Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports...
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The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal StateIn political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic...
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To the Desert: Pages from My DiaryChild memoir and eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide, 1915. This account the deportation of the Dadrian family from Chorum (central Turkey) to Jeresh (Jordan). During the deportation process, Vahram's records individual scenes of horror, as well as the general condition of decimated convoys...
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