Political Science
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Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning Through Covid-19A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics. --Tyler Cowen, coauthor of the blog Marginal RevolutionHave you ever stopped to wonder why hand sanitizer was missing from your...
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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America ApartAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right....
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The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of WarExploring how the U.S. military can move beyond Iraq and AfghanistanSince the September 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. military has been fighting incessantly in conflicts around the globe, often with inconclusive results. The legacies of these conflicts have serious implications for how the United...
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the EliteA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic...
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The Communism of Love: An Inquiry Into the Poverty of Exchange ValueA reminder of the most powerful and sustaining force in our lives. And that it's under constant threat. Exploring the meanings and powers of love from ancient Greece to the present day, Richard Gilman-Opalsky argues that what is called "love" by the best thinkers...
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Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American StatesIn 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in...
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Thomas Paine -- Collected Writings Common Sense; The Crisis; Rights of Man; The Age of Reason; Agrarian JusticeAuthor: Thomas PainePublisher: Must Have BooksPublished: 10/21/2019Pages: 696Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.53dISBN: 9781773236094This title is not returnable
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Periods Gone Public: Taking a Stand for Menstrual EquityThe first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape, feminist icon Gloria Steinem said Periods Gone Public, maybe the beginning of liberation for us all. From eliminating the tampon tax, to enacting new laws ensuring access to affordable, safe products,...
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The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End OppressionSociety is broken. We can design our way to a better one. In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and...
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Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from CapitalismFormer insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why and how we must reclaim technology's potential for the public good. Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry,...
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Direct Action: An EthnographyAnthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years--against...
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Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth JusticeWild Law fuses politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating story. It has been seminal in informing and inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature - a movement destined to shape the twenty-first century as significantly as the...
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The Romance of American CommunismWriter and critic Vivian Gornick's long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life "Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration...
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Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global WarmingA sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power--and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up...
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Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in SyriaFollowing the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history....
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Bending the Future: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United StatesThe year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the National Register of Historic Places, a national system of state preservation offices and local commissions,...
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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to ConservatismThe modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk's groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change*Updated to include new section on the Green New Deal * "The climate scare ends with this book." --SEAN HANNITY "This book arms every citizen with a comprehensive dossier on just how science, economics, and politics have been distorted and corrupted in the name...
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The Communist Manifesto [Manifesto of the Communist Party]2012 Reprint of 1910 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Communist Manifesto," originally titled "Manifesto of the Communist Party" is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has...
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined VenezuelaBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude--the world's largest reserves--an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support, ultimately wreaking economic...
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