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 City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban AmericaThe first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers--and why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming...
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CitizenshipThe story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov,...
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A Short History of Western Political ThoughtThis brief narrative survey of political thought over the past two millennia explores key ideas that have shaped Western political traditions. Beginning with the Ancient Greeks' classical emphasis on politics as an independent sphere of activity, the book goes on to consider the medieval...
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Haiti: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken Nation: The Tumultuous History - From Pearl of the Caribbean to Broken NationWhy has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism and slavery have left a legacy of racial tension, both...
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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the WorldThe Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing...
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard RustinOne of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness....
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I Write What I Like: Selected WritingsThe most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's...
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Comparative Politics: Classic and Contemporary ReadingsComparative Politics: Classic and Contemporary Readings brings together major articles and book chapters from the field of comparative politics, including both classic pieces and more recent contributions that have significantly advanced research in the field. The selections represent major theoretical schools of thought for...
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War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan FrontierIf you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the frontline. These small places are the heart of the war. Modeled on the classic Vietnam War...
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From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityA monumental investigation of the Supreme Court's rulings on race, From Jim Crow To Civil Rights spells out in compelling detail the political and social context within which the Supreme Court Justices operate and the consequences of their decisions for American race relations. In...
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The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial ReviewIn this groundbreaking interpretation of America's founding and of its entire system of judicial review, Larry Kramer reveals that the colonists fought for and created a very different system--and held a very different understanding of citizenship--than Americans believe to be the norm today. "Popular...
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The Federalist PapersThe Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and...
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Approaches to PeaceApproaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies, Fourth Edition, provides a unique and interdisciplinary sampling of key articles focusing on the diverse facets of peace and conflict studies. Featuring both classic and contemporary work, it enables students to read highly influential articles while...
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Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe V. WadeOn April 16, 1972, ten thousand people gathered in Central Park to protest New York's liberal abortion law. Emotions ran high, reflecting the nation's extreme polarization over abortion. Yet the divisions did not fall neatly along partisan or religious lines-the assembled protesters were far...
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the Fbi, 1933-34In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story--for the first time--of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover...
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Yugoslavia: Death of a NationThe most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began.--The Washington Post Book World. An essential resource for anyone of the conflict.--The New York Times Book Review.Author: Laura Silber, Allan LittlePublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 02/01/1997Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.70h...
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Four Hours in My LaiUncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war.--Chicago Tribune.Author: Michael Bilton, Kevin SimPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 03/01/1993Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 7.79h...
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and RevolutionIn a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been...
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a LifetimeThe gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country."It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." --The Financial...
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Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of ViennaFollowing Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia--along with a host of lesser nations--gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival,...
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