Politics / Current Events
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A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95 Add to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition
$19.00 Add to cartOne of America’s most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation’s racial s
- Author: Baldwin, James a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0805039392
- Language: English
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Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography
$18.00 Read moreChristopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great has been called a Tom Paine for our times, and in this addition to the Books that Changed the World Series, he vivid… [more below]
- Series: Books That Changed the World
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0802143830
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$46.58 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2008
- ISBN10: 801474450
- Language: English
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Everyone Counts: Could Participatory Budgeting Change Democracy?
$4.99 Add to cartThe Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the
- Series: Brown Democracy Medal
- Author: Lerner, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0801456657
- Language: English
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Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
$49.58 Add to cartCompetitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed stu… [more below]
- Series: Problems of International Politics
- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0521709156
- Language: English
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Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
$16.99 Add to cartA handbook for effective activism, advocacy, and social justice for people of all ages and backgrounds.
Are you ready to take action and make your voice heard, but don’t know how to go about it? This- Author: Camahort Page, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0399581642
- Language: English
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Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
$30.00 Add to cart“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and ove
- Author: Scully, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0312319738
- Language: English
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International Security: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartInternational security is never out of the headlines. War and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but concerns such … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Browning, Christopher S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199668531
- Language: English
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African Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAfrica is a continent of 54 countries and over a billion people. However, despite the rich diversity of the African experience, it is striking that continuations and themes seem to be reflected across… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198806574
- Language: English
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American Politics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAmerican politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. Amidst all this roiling partisan argument and confusing claims … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Valelly, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0195373855
- Language: English
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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
$20.99 Add to cartA former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become th
- Author: Watts, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062795996
- Language: English
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Decolonize Multiculturalism
$19.95 Add to cartFor those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word “multiculturalism” can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a muck of buzzwords, br
- Series: Decolonize That!
- Author: Alessandrini, Anthony C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193535
- Language: English
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The George Floyd Uprising
$22.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 2020, America experienced one of the biggest uprisings in half a century. Waves of enraged citizens took to the streets to streets in Minneapolis to decry the murder of George Floyd a
- Author: Group, Vortex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639664
- Language: English
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Civil Rights Baby (2021 New Edition): My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism
$18.99 Add to cart* New Edition *
THIS IS THE ONLY VALID, AUTHOR-APPROVED VERSION OF THIS MEMOIR.
Award-winning black TV journalist Nita Wiggins reflects on the civil rights climate in the U.S. and offers an honest acc
- Author: Wiggins, Nita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1737580500
- Language: English
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The Party Is Over: The New Louisiana Politics
$39.95 Add to cartFor decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental chall
- Author: Maloyed, Christie L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 16, 2022
- ISBN10: 0807176583
- Language: English
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Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics between Left and Right
$19.95 Add to cartIn an age of climate crisis and political confusion, ecology seems to offer clear answers to urgent questions about the current global predicament. Yet ecology has always been politically ambivalent.
- Author: Staudenmaier, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8293064579
- Language: English
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Critique of the Gotha Program
$15.95 Add to cartMarx’s Critique of the Gotha Program is a revelation. It offers the fullest elaboration of his vision for a communist future, free from the shackles of capital, but also the state. Neglected by the st
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639168
- Language: English
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Buses Are a Comin’: Memoir of a Freedom Rider
$22.00 Add to cartA firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the origin- Author: Person, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 125083676X
- Language: English
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The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an
- Author: Weiner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 125081622X
- Language: English
