Political Science
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United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and What We Can Do about It)A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism...
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and inequalities, social movements, the criminal justice system, and African American history. An excellent companion to Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow and Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th.--Library Journal, Starred review I was fortunate to grow up...
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Russian Nationalisms Since 1856: Ideology and the Making of Foreign PolicyMany scholars and analysts see Russian nationalism as a dangerous force, but is widespread concern about the malevolent effects of Russian nationalism-especially on foreign policy-justified? What is the record of nation-building in Russia, and how did nationalism evolve in the multiethnic, Russian empire? What...
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Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for the Ethics of Peace and WarThis book is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually for six years to specify the 10 practical steps and develop the undergirding principles of this critical approach: 1) support nonviolent direct action; 2) take independent initiatives to reduce...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and EssaysMore than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands--along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony--as the major icon of the struggle for women's suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton's intellectual contributions have been largely overshadowed by the focus...
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The Public Administration Theory PrimerThe Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a broad range of theories and analytical approaches--from public institutional theory to theories of governance--and consider which are the most promising,...
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Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillan, praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), brings her extraordinary gifts to one of the most important subjects today-the relationship between the United States and China-and one of the most significant moments in modern history....
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Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics2018 Texas State Historical Association's Al Lowman Memorial Prize, Best Book on Texas county and local historyThe notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver...
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The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Centuryvolume 4Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The...
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Antisemitism: Here and Now***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER--Jewish Education and Identity Award*** The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on...
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A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese NationalismThis is the first historically comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a modern nation-state and find its place in the modern world.Author: Suisheng ZhaoPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 09/08/2004Pages:...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the HistoryCharlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan freedom fighters who...
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To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's SlavesBoys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into bondage in Mauritania, and migrants imprisoned at gunpoint in the United States are just a few of the many forms slavery takes in the twenty-first century. There...
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Xunzi: The Complete TextThis is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi presents a more systematic vision of the...
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The China Questions: Critical Insights Into a Rising Power"Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions... Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower."--Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of...
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Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth!In October 2017 Stephen Kotkin, professor of history at Princeton University, published "Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929 - 1941." In it, Kotkin accuses Soviet leader Joseph Stalin of dozens of terrible crimes and atrocities.The appearance of Kotkin's scholarship is daunting: 909 pages of text,...
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The Three Dimensions of FreedomMusician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ordinary...
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and FutureOne of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about our divided land. "In this sprightly and enthralling...
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Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the AtheniansThucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself:...
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The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and WarWithin a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the...
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