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 Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World EconomyIn recent years, China has become a major actor in the global economy, making a remarkable switch from a planned and egalitarian socialism to a simultaneously wide-open and tightly controlled market economy. Against the establishment wisdom, Minqi Li argues in this provocative and startling...
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China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class StruggleChina is the fastest-growing economy in the world today. For many on the left, the Chinese economy seems to provide an alternative model of development to that of neoliberal globalization. Although it is a disputed question whether the Chinese economy can be still described...
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Understanding Police CulturePolice culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture--including its tragedies and celebrations--and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense,...
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A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000The conquest of the Americas inaugurated the slow accumulation of resources and the imperceptible structural transformations that culminated in the Industrial Revolution. From that moment on, capitalism grew and expanded with a dynamism and adaptability that are now all too familiar, profiting from wars...
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Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the PlanetFor years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life? No one ever says yes.Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible...
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Public Power in the Age of EmpireIn her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, Public Power in the Age of Empire, broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the...
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Geist and ZeitgeistHermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human experience, from the biological to the metaphysical. Concerned with the problem of ethical responsibility in a world with no unified system of values, he...
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Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the FamilyTaken into Custody' exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people's children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of...
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Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors, and Spectacles in Contemporary CitiesHow and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and policymakers learn in order to engage in more successful citymaking?In recent years, media and critical attention has been lavished on famous architects,...
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The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First CenturyAn update of Machiavelli's The Prince, written by New York Times bestselling author and political thinker Dick Morris.Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince has been one of the most widely read and quoted book about politics during the past five centuries. But in the democracies of...
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Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas VenclovaInterweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer. Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European tradition of works such as Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz and Aleksander Wat's...
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The Other Abyssinians: The Northern Oromo and the Creation of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society. Although the Oromo are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, their history has been distorted in order...
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The Philosopher's English King: Shakespeare's Henriad as Political PhilosophyThe Philosopher's English King offers a close reading of the Henriad, presenting Shakespeare's teaching on political authority and contributing to the burgeoning scholarship on Shakespeare as a political thinker. This book on Shakespeare's Henriad studies the tetralogy as a work of political thought. Leon...
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Nationalism and African IntellectualsAn examination of the attempt by Western-educated African intellectuals to create a 'better Africa' through connecting nationalism to knowledge, from the anti-colonial movement to the present-day. This book is about how African intellectuals, influenced primarily by nationalism, have addressed the inter-related issues of power,...
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What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?: Conversations about Women, Leadership and Power"I would love for my younger fans to read What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? by Marianne Schnall. It's a collection of interviews and essays by great women, including Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, and Melissa Etheridge. They will inspire you to...
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Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless HomelandFor much of her life like many Westerners most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the realities of Palestinian...
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Including the Executive SummaryThe Commission's Final Report provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.Author: National Commission on...
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Red Scare in the Green Mountains: The McCarthy Era in Vermont 1946-1960IPPY Award for Best Regional HistoryReader's Favorite AwardWhat happened in Vermont when the anti-Communist fear known as the "Red Scare" swept the country? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Rick Winston explores some forgotten history as we see how a small, rural "rock-ribbed...
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The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections WorkA practical, accessible, engaging, and comprehensive guide to how American democracy works (and how it sometimes doesn't work). The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington actually understand how our government...
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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do about ItMillions of working Americans talk, act, and vote as if their economic interests match those of the megawealthy, the multinational corporations, and the politicians who do their bidding. How did this happen? According to Air America radio host Thom Hartmann, the apologists of the...
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