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(Dys-)Functionalities of Corruption - Comparative Perspectives and Methodological Pluralism.

Corruption is usually understood as hampering political development, economic growth and democratic participation of citizens, but compar...

150 Jahre Nationalstaatlichkeit in Deutschland - Essays, Reflexionen, Kontroversen

Nationalstaatlichkeit ist für Historiker und Politologen gemeinsam keine selbstverständliche Forschungslandschaft. Das Jahr 1871, vor 150...

1984 and After

21st Century Monetary Policy - The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

In response to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks worldwide have deployed tools tha...

24/7 - Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

An eye-opening examination of the thing we never seem to get enough of - sleep - and its relationship to work and capitalism, arguing tha...

8 Billion and Counting - How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World

As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies...

A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield

A Black Man in the White House - Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis

In this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama's presidential election team, presents st...

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking...

Accessing the Future - Children's Conceptions and Practices of Access Rights in Environmental Matters

How do children perceive access and participation rights in environmental matters? The study presented in this book aims to broaden the d...

Accessory to War - The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and "the worl...

Accidental Conflict - America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives

Stephen Roach examines how the current tensions between America and China are largely a reflection of fearmongering and denial, rather th...

Across the Aisle - Why Bipartisanship Works for America

Bipartisanship has been essential to America's success throughout its history. Today, however, there seems waning interest by politicians...

Active and Passive Citizens - A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy

A powerful case for why majority rule-not representation-is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governanc...

Active Borders in Europe - Identity and Collective Memory in the Cross-Border Space

This book explores how identities, public spheres and collective memories are being transformed in cross-border areas, contributing to th...

Adam Smith's Sociability and the American Dream

Adam Smith's sociable market has been contorted into a free market; Christian love has become selfish individualism; John Adams' fear tha...

Adriatic - A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age

“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”—The Wall Street Journal “A lovely, per...

Afghanistan - Long War, Forgotten Peace

Afghanistan has been in the headlines for many years - but tragically for all the wrong reasons. First invaded by the Soviets in 1979, th...

Afghanistan and Canada - Is There an Alternative to the War?

Traces Canada's military involvement in Afghanistan in the hope of finding an alternative to continuing war.

Africa¿s Quest for Modernity - Lessons from Japan and China

This monograph addresses the complexity of China-Africa and Japan-Africa relations from a comparative perspective. The volume is divided ...

Africa and the World - Bilateral and Multilateral International Diplomacy

This book probes key issues pertaining to Africäs relations with global actors. It provides a comprehensive trajectory of Africäs relatio...

Africa Is Not for Sale

The African continent is for sale and on its way to being owned by the superpowers. Quincy S Jones makes that bold assertion in this book...

African-On-African Colonization - The Ill-Fated Ambazonia-Cameroun Political Partnership

Using Ambazonia as a case study, this book examines the phenomenon of African-on-African colonialism in postcolonial Africa, provides a d...

After Border Externalization - Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania

In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers a much-needed conversation starter around the colonial legacies involved in the Europ...

After the Fall - The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of...

Against Racial Capitalism - Selected Writings

A collection of writings from one of the anti-Apartheid struggle's major revolutionary public intellectuals

Against the Death Penalty

Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? In Against the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Breyer argues that it does; that it is car...

Agency for Internal Corrpution - How the Swamp Sabotaged the Trump Presidency

This book tells a remarkable true story of bureaucratic assassination during the Trump presidency, revealing in vivid detail how career f...

A Greek Tragedy - Twenty-Four Hours, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis

A cross between Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial and Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea, the gripping and harrowing true story of the l...

A Hacker's Mind - How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas...

AI Needs You - How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

"An electrifying vision of how we can safeguard AI's future for the public goodArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative tec...

A Leader-Centered Theory of Foreign Policy Change - Us Foreign Policy Towards Cuba Under Obama

This innovative account challenges traditional views in International Relations by theorising the influence of individual leaders on fore...

Algeria - History, People and Political Struggle

This book provides a comprehensive, concise and up to date presentation and analysis of Algeria's social, economic and political conditio...

Alienation and Freedom

Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and...

All the Kremlin's Men - Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin since his ascent to the Russian presidency in 2000, and the ma...

All the Worst Humans - How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

"A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls ...

Alternative Approaches in Conflict Resolution

This edited volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution. With traditional military intervention r...

America's Deadliest Export

'A fireball of terse information.' Oliver Stone 'A remarkable collection. Blum concentrates on matters of great current significance, and...

America's Future - Biden and the Progressives

This book is about a choice President Biden must make that will determine the future of America. His choice is between being a partisan p...

America's Path Back to Moral Leadership

Government institutions have betrayed the trust of the American people for too long. Instead of serving a democracy that is of, by, and f...

American Apocalypse - The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy

" A thorough analysis of the right-wing interests contributing to the downfall of American democracy. The war on American democracy is at...

American Patriots Presents Ron DeSantis - Ron DeSantis

Looking for some inspiration? Look no further than Governor Ron DeSantis! This colorful, well-designed quote book contains some of the be...

American Prometheus - The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic...

America the Vulnerable - How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

In this powerful and urgently needed call to action, national security expert Stephen Flynn offers a startling portrait of the radical sh...

An Afghan Prince in Victorian England - Race, Class, and Gender in an Afghan-Anglo Imperial Encounter

In 1894 Great Britain invited 'Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imper...

Analytics, Operations, and Strategic Decision Making in the Public Sector

Analytics for the public sector involves the application of operations research and statistical techniques to solve various problems exis...

Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists hav...

Anarchism and Ecology

Anarchism Volume Three - A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume Three - The New Anarchism

Explores the concept of anarchy as a politics of freedom.

Anarchist Papers

Anarchist Papers

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Translated into 100 languages, winner of the National Book Award, and named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II by t...

A New Dawn for Politics

What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion ...

A New Understanding of Terrorism - Case Studies, Trajectories and Lessons Learned

Terrorism is a complex phenomenon that cannot be understood through reading of a number of unrelated academic articles or a dry overview ...

Another Brick in the Barricade: The Gezi Resistance and Its Aftermath

¿After more than two years, what has remained of the Gezi Park protests?¿ ¿Is Gezi`s critique of political power still valid?¿ ¿What has ...

A Party with Socialists in It - A History of the Labour Left

A smart and succinct history of the Labour left

Apocalypse Never - Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

Now a National Bestseller! Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental proble...

A Quick Ting On: British Black Power

From Notting Hill Carnival to the Mangrove Nine, Chanté Joseph chronicles a compelling, hard-hitting, and neglected history of Black poli...

Arabella - How George Soros and Other Billionaires Use a 'Dark Money' Empire to Transform America

While billionaires like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett are well known as left-wing megadonors transforming the countryâ ¿s ...

A Republican's Lament - Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives

A political writer's compelling mix of history, political analysis, and personal angst