Politics / Current Events
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Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
$17.95 Read moreA gripping in-depth look at the presidential election that stunned the world
Donald Trump’s election victory resulted in one of the most unexpected presidencies in history. Identity Crisis provides th- Author: Sides, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 13, 2019
- ISBN10: 0691196435
- Language: English
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The ABC of Anarchism
$24.95 Add to cartA gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assas… [more below]
- Author: Berkman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 297
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0486433692
- Language: English
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue- Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423195
- Language: English
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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age
$25.00 Add to cartIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-ri
- Series: Contending Modernities
- Author: Ritchie, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0268105782
- Language: English
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Governance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe word “governance” is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on “good governance.” Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of “global governance… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevir, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0199606412
- Language: English
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Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism
$16.99 Add to cartThe first volume of Arendt’s celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 20 1968
- ISBN10: 0156078104
- Language: English
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
$19.99 Add to cartKnown as “the Leopard,” the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake — seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his p
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0060934433
- Language: English
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?: a politician explains
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1977, Jeremy Akerman, then the leader of the New Democratic Party in Nova Scotia and a member of the legislature, painted a word picture of the politician’s life. From getting elected to staying el
- Author: Akerman, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1990187293
- Language: English
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Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America
$18.99 Read moreWith a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.
Putin’s Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vla- Author: Koffler, Rebekah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 168451374X
- Language: English
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The Defender’s Dilemma: Identifying and Dettering Gray-Zone Aggression
$45.00 Add to cartNational security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. Turning away from the military as an omnibus tool of aggression, hostile governments are instead frequently using tools-including … [more below]
- Author: Braw, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0844750409
- Language: English
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Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored
$24.95 Add to cartAfter the attacks of September Eleventh, the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission lobbied for a credible account of what happened without preconceptions about its ultimate fin
- Author: McGinnis, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: September 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1773740806
- Language: English
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Agents of Repression: The Fbi’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
$24.95 Add to cartFor those wondering how Bill Clinton could pardon white-collar fugitive Marc Rich but not Native American leader Leonard Peltier, important clues can be found in this classic study of the FBI’s COINTE… [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1574782177
- Language: English
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Globalizing Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless War
$29.95 Add to cartLanguage is never just a means of communication. It terrorizes. And, especially in times of war, it has the ability to target civilians and generate fear as a means of producing specific political out
- Series: Studies in Security and International Affairs #33
- Author: Sen, Somdeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 082036052X
- Language: English
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War by Other Means: A General in the Trump White House
$28.99 Read moreGeneral Keith Kellogg saw it all. The only national security advisor to work side by side with both President Trump and Vice President Pence, he was their confidant as they made their most momentous d… [more below]
- Author: Kellogg, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684512468
- Language: English
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Whose Holy Land?: The Roots of the Conflict Between Jews and Arabs
$37.99 Add to cartHoly Land? Israel? Palestine?.- RELIGIOSITY AND POLITICS.- The Pious, the Zealous and a “Dead” God.- Fundamentalism – A Shield for the Culture?.- Is Zionism Blasphemy?.- Zionism in the Quran?.- THE HO… [more below]
- Author: Wolffsohn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 16 2021
- ISBN10: 3030742857
- Language: English
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Way Things Ought to Be
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and #1 radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh offered a way of life for millions of avid and devoted listeners. Every day this comic conservative of the airwaves with … [more below]
- Author: Limbaugh, Rush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982188464
- Language: English
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Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
$29.99 Add to cartDefying the Dragon tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC’s authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi’s China as unshake… [more below]
- Author: Vines, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1787384551
- Language: English
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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartA contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.
Over the past three deca- Author: Nichols, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0197518877
- Language: English
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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
$49.92 Read moreHow the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, per- Author: Dickson, Bruce J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0691186642
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
