Politics / Current Events
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What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics
$41.58 Add to cartPrescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United States
Richard Rorty, one of the most influential int- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691217521
- Language: English
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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- Language: English
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Designing Creative Communities: Your Town Is Your Canvas. Learn How To Make Your Mark
$19.99 Add to cartWe all want to be a part of a thriving community. But few of us know how to meaningfully contribute to the places where we live, work, learn and play.
Whether you dream of launching a community innova
- Author: Marshall, Spud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1737638908
- Language: English
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For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.
We must, as For Antifascist Futures urges, take antifascism as a major i
- Author: Goldstein, Alyosha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173563
- Language: English
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Quest for the Presidency: The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America
$36.95 Add to cartQuest for the Presidency gathers in a single volume the compelling stories behind every presidential campaign in American history, from 1789 through 2020. Bob Riel takes us inside the 1800 clash betwe… [more below]
- Author: Riel, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640122303
- Language: English
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Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War
$35.00 Add to cartFuture Peace urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and is an impassioned plea for peace from an individual who spent decades preparing for war.
Today’s militaries are increasi
- Author: Latiff, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0268201897
- Language: English
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Reclaiming We: Twenty Everyday Acts to Strengthen the Common Good and Defend Democracy
$10.00 Add to cartOur country is at a crossroads: One path, fixated on the me, inevitably benefits the powerful and well-connected. But the other path leads to we – a reinvigoration of community, mutual responsibility,
- Author: Nebraska, Civic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1736766309
- Language: English
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19
$13.00 Read moreA concise history of how American law has shaped–and been shaped by–the experience of contagion, “taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arriv… [more below]
- Author: Witt, John Fabian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261519
- Language: English
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The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in main
- Author: Wehner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 006282080X
- Language: English
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Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
$16.95 Read more“This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways!” –Bill McKibben, author of Falter
Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take an activ- Author: Lende, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751409
- Language: English
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The Candidate’s 7 Deadly Sins: Using Emotional Optics to Turn Political Vices into Virtues
$27.99 Add to cartIf you ask candidates and campaign strategists for the keys to a successful campaign, they say logistics like fundraising, poll numbers, and grassroots.
These answers aren’t wrong, but they overlook
- Author: Wish, Peter A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1544507291
- Language: English
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union
$30.00 Read moreFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a “powerful revisionist account”of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The n- Author: Kreitner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18, 2020
- ISBN10: 0316510602
- Language: English
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Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
$24.95 Read moreHow climate change will affect our political theory–for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon- Author: Wainwright, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1786634457
- Language: English
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Maher, Geo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1784782238
- Language: English
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In It for the Long Haul: Overcoming Burnout and Passion Fatigue as Social Justice Change Agents
$16.95 Add to cartIn It for the Long Haul helps social justice change agents stop burning out and reclaim their energy to create meaningful change.
- Author: Obear, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1683508173
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire
$39.95 Add to cartThe ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of
- Author: Marcus, Raphael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1626166110
- Language: English
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True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
$21.99 Add to cartWhy has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are d… [more below]
- Author: Manjoo, Farhad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: March 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1620458403
- Language: English
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
$47.50 Read moreA prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Part- Author: Rodden, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644271
- Language: English
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
$19.99 Add to cartThe harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.
13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11,- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1455538442
- Language: English
