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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How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing SystemOne of the "Best Books of the Year" Guardian - Financial Times - Times Higher Education A major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper--from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time....
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Speaking of UniversitiesA devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly...
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Police: A Field GuideIt doesn't take firsthand experience to learn the meaning of "pain compliance" or "rough ride" Police: A Field Guide is an illustrated handbook to the methods, mythologies, and history that animate today's police. It is a survival manual for encounters with cops and police...
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Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism and GlobalizationWhat does it mean to decolonize transnational feminist theory in the context of globalization? As a project concerned with multiple power structures, feminist theory must address the historical legacies of colonialism, postcolonialism, and more recently, decoloniality. This book offers essays organized around a coherent...
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Oil: A Beginner's GuideWorld acclaimed scientist Vaclav Smil reveals everything there is to know about nature's most sought-after resource Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few would recognise....
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Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's StrikeIn 1984, a small group of gay men and lesbian women stepped away from London's vibrant gay scene to support a beleaguered mining community in the remote valleys of South Wales. They did so in the midst of the 1984 miners' strike--the most bitter...
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Not Quite a Diplomat: A MemoirDescribed as Mrs Thatcher's favourite diplomat, Robin Renwick was at the centre of many of the key events in history over the past forty years. His account contains vivid first-hand portraits of Mandela, Mugabe, George Bush Sr, the Clintons and Margaret Thatcher. Not just...
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Grass-Fed Nation: Getting Back the Food We DeserveFor years we've been told that, thanks to their high saturated fat content, the foods for which evolution has adapted us -- grass-fed meat, grass-fed dairy products, eggs from hens running on pasture -- are unhealthy. In their place we eat processed factory foods...
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Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging TrendsThe book begins with a section delving into foresight analysis, strategic foresight, and scenario planning. It then examines the pressing contexts and most wicked problems facing future leaders ranging from population growth and urbanization to climate change and resource competition. How can leaders create...
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PC Worlds: Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of HegemonyThis provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which...
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When Ideas Matter: Speeches for an Ethical RepublicThe President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in office to set out a vision of what he calls "an ethical Republic." In a series...
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The Idea of Communism 3: The Seoul ConferenceAn all-star cast of radical intellectuals discuss the continued importance of communist principles In 2009 Slavoj iek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people. The discussion has...
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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant CityA poignant testament to the city shattered by Syria's civil war.Aleppo lies in ruins, a casualty of Syria's brutal civil war. Its streets are cloaked in darkness, its population scattered, its memories ravaged. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians...
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The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent WarInstitutions do not decide whom to destroy or to kill, whether to make peace or war; those decisions are the responsibility of individuals. This book argues that the most important aspect of conflict resolution is for antagonists to understand their opponents as individuals, their...
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Blue Labour: Forging a New PoliticsFollowing Labour's defeat at the polls in 2015, and at time when the Party is attempting to redefine its meaning, values and even identity, there is an urgent need for fresh thinking. Most people agree that a new start is needed. But in which...
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Aftershock: A Journey Into Eastern Europe's Broken DreamsIn this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain...
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China and the New MaoistsForty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly ambivalent towards him. And while...
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Marxism and the Muslim WorldIn the wake of the uprisings which rocked the Arab world, Maxime Rodinson's work has taken on a new and powerful resonance. Dating from 1958, the time of his expulsion from the French Communist Party, to 1972, the assembled articles, papers and essays which...
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Business and Society: A Critical IntroductionCorporations dominate our societies. They employ us, sell to us and influence how we think and who we vote for, while their economic interests dictate local, national and global agendas. Written in clear and accessible terms, this much-needed textbook provides critical perspectives on all...
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Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Volume II: 1962-2009 (Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies Series)Author: Paul J. Tompkins, U. S. Army Special Operations CommandPublisher: Military BookshopPublished: 10/30/2013Pages: 886Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.09lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 1.81dISBN: 9781782665175This title is not returnable
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