Political Science

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by Ezra Klein (Author)ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates's "5 books to read this summer," this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In this "superbly researched" (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us--and how we are polarizing it--with disastrous results. "The American political s...

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America - Paperback

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by Joseph A. McCartin (Author)In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers' inability to n...

Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care - Paperback

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by Mimi E. Kim (Editor), Cameron Rasmussen (Editor), Durrell M. Washington (Editor)A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.Within social work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state--abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organiz...

How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment - Paperback

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by Rachel Herzing (Author), Justin Piché (Author), Mariame Kaba (Foreword by)An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive interviews with abo...

Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future - Paperback

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by Alice Cappelle (Author)Analyses how conservative and anti-feminist ideas are filtered through social media, and how we can collectively fight back against them to reclaim our future online. Analysing a wide range of online communities and subcultures, Alice Capelle shows how an unprecedented backlash against women is being orchestrated online. Covering everything from the reactionary politics of the "manosphere" to hookup culture, traditional feminity, the politics of sexual liberation and...

Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States - Paperback

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by Zoe Baker (Author)An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice. Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their views on direct action, revolution, organization, state socialism, reforms, and trade unions. Throughout, she demonstrates that the ...

You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 - Hardcover

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by Tariq Ali (Author)A new memoir from renowned political activist and author of Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties The revolutionary upsurge of 1968-1975 jump-hopped continents with ease but finally petered out. What happened after is the subject of You Can't Please All. Tariq Ali recounts a life committed to writing and cultural interventions. An eyewitness in Moscow to the fall of the Soviet Union, he was caught up in the intellectual excitement that had gripped the cou...

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth - Hardcover

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by Catherine Pakaluk (Author)A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women. In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah's Children is a compelling portrait of these overlooked but fascinating mothers who, like the biblical Hannah, see their children as their purpose, their contribution, and their greatest blessing. The social scientist Catherine Pakaluk, herself ...

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787 - Paperback

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by Catherine Drinker Bowen (Author)"Remarkable...If you read only one book on the Constitution in your life, this could be it" (Los Angeles Times): the classic history of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia in 1787, the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents, the Constitution of the United States. From Catherine Drinker Bowen, noted American biographer and National Book Award winner, comes the canonical account of the Constitutional Convention recom...

At the Lost and Found: Personal & Political Dispatches of Resistance and Hope - Paperback

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by Edward Curtin (Author)At the Lost and Found is a dazzling exploration of the most important issues of our time, written in a style that defies categorization. Open it at any chapter and you will be hooked by themes and sentences that are a moveable feast for head, heart, and spirit. Each chapter is like a river journey that will twist and turn your mind down unexpected tributaries that you never thought to follow. And when you reach the end, you will realize you have been traveling one mig...

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by Thomas Paine (Author)Thomas Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies ...

Ideology and Meaning-Making Under the Putin Regime - Hardcover

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by Marlene Laruelle (Author)Much has been written to try to understand the ideological characteristics of the current Russian government, as well as what is happening inside the mind of Vladimir Putin. Refusing pundits' clichés that depict the Russian regime as either a cynical kleptocracy or the product of Putin's grand Machiavellian designs, Ideology and Meaning-Making under the Putin Regime offers a critical genealogy of ideology in Russia today. Marlene Laruelle provides an innovative, mu...

To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power - Hardcover

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by Sergey Radchenko (Author)What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of global revolution....

U.S. Alliance and Partner Networks: A Network Analysis of Their Health and Strength - Paperback

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by King Mallory (Author), Luke J. Matthews (Author), Michael J. McNerney (Author)To determine how much the United States can rely on its network of allies and partners, researchers constructed global networks representing diplomatic, military, and economic elements of national power in 1989, 2000, and 2017 and compared the connections, centrality, interdependence, vulnerability to disruption, risk of conflict contagion, network depth, and U.S. access to network depth per dollar of U.S. assist...

Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 - Paperback

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by Franze Neumann (Author), Peter Hayes (Introduction by)Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the ...

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America - Paperback

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by Rick Perlstein (Author)"Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling." --Los Angeles Times "Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics." --Jon Meacham "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know--American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 1964 and 1972--into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative." --Jef...

America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice - Paperback

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by Treva B. Lindsey (Author)One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."--Publishers Weekly A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogy...

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - Paperback

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by Haruki Murakami (Author)In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world. On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led ...

Watergate's Unexpected Hero: The Life of Peter W. Rodino Jr. - Hardcover

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by Lawrence Spinelli (Author)In today's sharply divided political culture, finding a deliberative leader with an enduring commitment to bipartisanship feels hopeless.Half a century ago, in one of the United States' most trying hours, a relatively unknown congressman from New Jersey rose to the occasion as chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which established the gold standard for presidential impeachment in holding President Richard M. Nixon accountable for his crimes.Watergate's Unexpect...

The Jack Smith Report: Final Report on Efforts to Interfere with the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by Donald Trump - Paperback

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by Jack Smith (Author)The full, unexpurgated final report of special prosecutor Jack Smith, regarding his two-year investigation of Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The evidence from the investigation includes grand jury testimony from 55 witnesses, interviews by Smith's criminal investigators with over 250 people, photographs, information from electronic devices and online records--including Trump's social media account--and more. "Our wo...

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel - Paperback

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by Shahnaz Habib (Author)Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals of Excellence This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change? The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complic...

When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail - Paperback

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by Eric Jay Dolin (Author)Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs, opium, and beche-...

Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era - Hardcover

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by Clarence Taylor (Author)Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in New York City were contestedin many ways, beginning long before the 1960s, and across many groups with a surprisingly wide range of political perspectives. Civil Rights i...

Ancient Maya Political Dynamics - Paperback

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by Antonia E. Foias (Author)"An impressive overview of recent scholarship coupled with the results of a long-term research project at the site and region of Motul de San José. It contributes significantly to the anthropological literature on politics and power." --Daniela Triadan, coeditor of Burned Palaces and Elite Residences of Aguateca "A long overdue and particularly welcome piece of scholarly work. It synthesizes, digests, and makes available the results of the tremendous boom in politi...

Living Lives in Quiet Desperation: ...the pain of homelessness - Paperback

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by Marilyn Reitz-Pustejovsky (Author) Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Amlo: El pacto silencioso con los pueblos originarios - Paperback

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by Acic Oklahoma (Author)CRECIMIENTO ECONÓMICO, PROYECTOS MÚLTIPLES DE INFRAESTRUCTURA, PARIDAD PESO DÓLAR A LA BAJA, EQUILIBRIO MACROECONÓMICO, CERO DEUDA, POPULARIDAD POLÍTICA SOSTENIDA... Qué inspira a AMLO? Cuál es la clave de su éxito político? Cuál es el origen de la mística de su lucha?Desde hace muchos años se barajea la idea de un posible despertar del México Profundo. Despertar los verdaderos valores de la antigua sabiduría, de aquella filosofía que antaño diera fama y gloria al ...

Stealing Our Democracy: How the Political Assassination of a Governor Threatens Our Nation - Hardcover

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by Don Siegelman (Author)In a searing political memoir, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman explodes the myth of an impartial U.S. justice system. He should know. Arguably the most successful and promising politician in modern Alabama history, his three-decade career in public service ran afoul of Republican opponents who used the federal judicial system to take him out of contention in Alabama and nationally. Siegelman ultimately was sentenced to 88 months in federal prison and served five...

Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts - Paperback

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by Mark Bowden (Author)Mark Bowden, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, brings readers into the heat of a story in a way few writers can. Road Work offers a selection of the best of his award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer to his trenchant pieces in the Atlantic on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Whether traveling to a small town in Rhode Island to penetrate one of the largest cocaine rings in history, or to the Luang...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Paperback

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by Malcolm X (Author), Alex Haley (With)ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citize...

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy - Hardcover

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by Katherine Stewart (Author)"An indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America."-Congressman Jamie Raskin "Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."-Kristin Kobes Du Mez The acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers exposes the inner workings of the "engine of unreason" roiling American culture and politics. Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspir...

21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19 - Paperback

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by Ben S. Bernanke (Author) Number of Pages: 528 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.25 x 5.56 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2023

Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation - Hardcover

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by Sune Engel Rasmussen (Author)An intimate history of the Afghan war--and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed. No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning--and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen draws on more than a d...