Political Science
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#WeAreRent Book 2 Rent seeking: the Crime against HumanityWestern civilisation is threatened by the cannibalistic phase of what economists call free riding (or rent seeking), and which the author characterises as the culture of cheating. This culture was the source of the social pathologies that caused the collapse of the civilisations of...
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Bellwether: Virginia's Political Transformation, 2006-2020Throughout the early years of the 20th century, Virginia was viewed as a Republican state. Citizens in the Commonwealth had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. In 2000, the GOP had just won the governor's race, held both U.S. Senate seats,...
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The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - And the Fight for Our FutureIn the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in The Raging 2020s. For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold...
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Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical AnalysisTaking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are...
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Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the PresentHow do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and...
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Police: A Field Guide Revised EditionA radical guide to the language of policing This field guide arms activists--and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse--with critical insights that ultimately redefine the very idea of policing. When we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation...
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Taxpayers in International Law: International Minimum Standards for the Protection of Taxpayers' RightsThis ground-breaking book brings clarity to the dynamically developing field of international tax law. It empowers individuals and corporate taxpayers to navigate their way around and helps tax authorities take taxpayers' rights into account from the beginning. The book is the result of several...
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No Bosses: A New Economy for a Better WorldProviding hope and direction to sustain commitment on the path to change, No Bosses is about winning a new world. Life under capitalism. Rampant debilitating denial for the many next to vile enrichment of the few. Material deprivation, denial, and denigration. Dignity defiled. Michael...
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Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight BackA timely manifesto on freedom from Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, a Nobel Prize nominee Activist Nathan Law experienced firsthand the speed with which our freedom can be taken away. When sovereignty over Hong Kong was handed to China in 1997, Hong...
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Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in PerilCalling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink. For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and...
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Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the EarthAn urgent, resounding call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050--thereby saving millions of its species--and a candid assessment of the health of our planet and our role in conserving it, from the award-winning author of The Experience of Place and...
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The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality CrisisHow parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society. Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little...
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A Wolf in the World?: China from 1950 to the PresentWhat really drives China? Centuries of self-imposed separation from the outside world continue to lead astray Western thinkers, whose mythologies obstruct our understanding. Based on half a century of engagement, starting with three years during the Cultural Revolution - when China was at its...
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The Fifth Horseman and the New Mad: How Massive Attacks of Disruption Became the Looming Existential Danger to a Divided Nation and the World at LargeThe new MAD, Massive Attacks of Disruption--and not China or Russia--are the most immediate and greatest dangers to the nation. But no one has recognized and thus acted to contain and prevent these potentially existential threats that, if left unchecked, will bring ruin to...
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Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST -- SOCIAL/POLITICAL CHANGE - 2022 ASJA ANNUAL WRITING AWARD WINNER -- SERVICE - 2022 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST -- SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE - 2022 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDALIST -- PHILANTHROPY/NONPROFIT/SUSTAINABILITY How do we...
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Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's FreedomAn extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence--the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule. Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for...
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The Secret City: A Spy's Guide to LondonThe world's great powers have waged discreet war in London's streets. This conflict has played out across the city, often in plain sight, in leafy parks, tube stations, office blocks, bars and even chain restaurants. The Secret City charts locations where the course of...
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Devils Hole Pupfish: The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American WestCyprinodon diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada-California border. The rarest fish in the world. As concern for the future of biodiversity mounts, Devils Hole Pupfish asks...
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The ArthashastraWritten around 400 B.C. by Kautilya, the 'Indian Machiavelli', THE ARTHASHASTRA was thought lost for more than a thousand years. It was rediscovered in 1905, when scholar Rudrapatnam Shamashastry was asked to catalogue an unpromising pile of palm leaf manuscripts - and suddenly found...
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular WarfareIn Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals--Russia, Iran, and China--have increasingly adopted irregular...
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