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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Youth Participatory Action Research in Your Classroom: Teaching and Learning for Active CitizenshipYouth participatory action research can turn your classroom into a site of meaningful, relevant civic learning, in which young people gain a sense of civic empowerment as they discuss, investigate, analyze, and speak with authority on issues that directly affect them and their communities....
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You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a SongIn You Are My Sunshine, Robert Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II, and the American civil rights movement to produce a compelling biography of one of the world's most popular musical compositions. This is the story...
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Year Zero: The Five-Year PresidencyDesigning and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency--and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a strong and successful presidency. An astute and...
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Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of ConflictIn Words of War, Eric Min pulls back the curtain on when, why, and how belligerents negotiate while fighting. Of all interstate conflicts across the last two centuries, two-thirds have ended through negotiated agreement. Wartime diplomacy is thus commonly seen as a costless and...
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Women Voters: Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American ElectionsWomen Voters documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. The Element contributes to a better understanding of partisan candidate choice in US presidential elections. First, women are diverse and politically heterogenous, where white women are more likely to vote Republican...
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Women in Policing: A History Through Personal StoriesAlthough there is still work to do, especially in senior ranks and the later stages of service, today's police workforce is the most gender balanced it has been in its history. However, getting to this stage has taken often significant personal struggle on the...
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Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century*This book is in the Cambria Rapid Communications in Conflict and Security Series (General Editor: Thomas G. Mahnken; Founding Editor: Geoffrey R.H. Burn)Winning Without Fighting: Irregular Warfare and Strategic Competition in the 21st Century provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving landscape of irregular...
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Why Trump? Why Some People Support Him- How the Rest of Us Can Respond: Why Some People Support Him- How the Rest of Us Can RespondWhy do some people support Trump? Why has the subject of Trump become the dominant subject of US politics? Why Trump? considers those questions and connected questions by exploring American history to show that the MAGA movement really isn't about Trump. Trump is a...
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WhistlestopFrom Face the Nation moderator and contributing editor for The Atlantic John Dickerson come the stories behind the stories of the most memorable moments in American presidential campaign history. The stakes are high. The characters full of striving and ego. Presidential campaigns are a...
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from WithinThe struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet...
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What Would Reagan Do?: Life Lessons from the Last Great PresidentWith the nation badly divided and the two major parties on a bitter collision course, what can we learn from America's last great president? A lot, says New York Times bestselling author and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In What Would Reagan Do?,...
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Welfare, Happiness, and EthicsMoral philosophers agree that welfare matters. But they disagree about what it is, or how much it matters. Wayne Sumner presents an original theory of welfare, investigating its nature and discussing its importance. He considers and rejects all notable theories of welfare, both objective...
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Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and RevolutionariesThe untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold WarIn the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries. They arrived here to seek refuge,...
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden AgeA must-have hardcover edition of the watershed book on 18th-century pirates and the amazingly democratic and egalitarian communities they created Part of the Beacon Classics series Villains of All Nations explores the "Golden Age" of Atlantic piracy (1716-1726) and the infamous generation whose images...
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Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for EqualityThe question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. Here, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal,...
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Unfree Lives: Slaves at the Najahid and Rasulid Courts of YemenUnfree Lives illuminates Yemen's forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss reconstructs the lives of women and men who...
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Understanding Colonial NigeriaIn this landmark new history, Toyin Falola analyses the impact of Britain's colonization of Nigeria from the late nineteenth century to 1960, when the country regained independence. Falola covers major events in depth, from the initial conquest and denial of Indigenous sovereignty, to the...
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Transmedia Geographies: Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media ConvergenceLooking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders...
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Towards the Great CivilizationThe first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy.In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi...
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To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805A new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that helped plant the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower.After the American Revolution, maritime traders of the United States lost the protection of Britain's navy, leading privateers from the Barbary...
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