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 PrinceMachiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting...
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and CommunityAn Invitation to Community and Models for ConnectionAfter almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends,...
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To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban"A book that is as deeply humane and profoundly rendered as any I've read about Afghanistan, or any other war." --Elliot Ackerman, New York Times Book Review From one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential...
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Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our WorldIn this "well-researched guide," two of the world's most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous anti-science movement--and offer "powerful ideas about how to fight back" (Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun) "Science is indeed under siege, and that's not good...
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One Nation Always Under God: Profiles in Christian CourageA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSenator Tim Scott explains that in every state, in every decade, America has been built on faith.From our Founding Fathers to today's heroes of faith, Christianity has been the bedrock of our nation's greatness. In One Nation Always Under God,...
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What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary CrisisA vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris--"a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable" (Vulture). Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale...
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us ApartFrom the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a startlingly different story....
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected WritingsFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America. For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been thinking aloud about America in her much-loved Wall Street Journal column. In...
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismThe bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka...
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of CommunismA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today.Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "bracing" (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from a "public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present" (The New York Times)--now in hardcover for the first time "Timothy Snyder reasons...
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For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led UprisingA moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists "Unlike anything I've read . . . A searing, courageous, and ultimately beautiful book filled with the spirit of the movement that it covers."...
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Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the Cia, and the Tragedy of MkultraThe inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous--even deadly--experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers...
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Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run AgainAn explosive inside reckoning with one of the most fateful conspiracies inAmerican political history--the concerted effort by the President's team to hidehis mental decline. In Greek tragedy, the protagonist's effort to avoid his fate is what seals his fate. 2024 is theyear American politics...
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public...
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Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021The New York Times and USA Today bestsellerFor sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German states--East Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany...
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Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI FutureInstant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller. Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider's perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities. "An essential companion." -- Fei-Fei Li...
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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George OrwellBurnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers.Written in 1941, this is the...
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The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's ResourcesShortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the Year The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to...
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We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth"We Are Not Numbers is not just a book--it's my life, their life, and our shared story ... This is Gaza as it truly is, written by those who live it every day" --MOTAZ AZIZA "This book is a jailbreak and a miracle" --NAOMI...
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