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International Security and Peace - Definitions from A-Z

The reference work contains definitions of concepts of international security and peace. It is oriented towards the current state of rese...

Why Empires Fall - Rome, America and the Future of the West

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their fiel...

Thailand - Crisis Nation

Spirals of Revolt - Study and Struggle to Abolish the Present

We study revolutionary change not simply to understand it. We study revolution to make it.

The Social Safety Net - Canada in Decline Book I

Canada's social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing? Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollow...

Multiculturalism

Transnationalist Cecil Foster explores the origins, legacy, and potential of Canadian multicultural policy. From the beginning of colonia...

Growing Up Biden - A Memoir

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden's younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong camp...

Militant Media - CRA #2

Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2015 hat das Centre for Research Architecture (CRA) Goldsmiths, Uni- versity of London, eine bunt gemischte ...

But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It

'Everything a manifesto should be: heartfelt, hectoring, impassioned, rousing.' The i __________________________________________________ ...

The Cross and the Flag - Papal Diplomacy and John Paul II's Struggle Against the Tyranny of the Possible

What is papal diplomacy and what role does it play on the larger geopolitical stage? Why does it matter what popes say to a global audien...

Animal Spirits - The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street

"[A] master class in American cultural and intellectual history." -Sarah E. Igo, The New York Times Book Review "Jackson Lears is the pre...

Shattered Nation - Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State

Britain is broken, but how did it become so divided?

Book of Famous Speeches - Inspiring Orations That Changed the World (Book of Historical Speeches)

What were the most important and influential speeches of our time? Discover the answers in this book of speeches that changed our world.

Inhuman Resources

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics. Inhuman Resources centers on what g...

The Good Die Young - The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

Kissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy endures

Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads

This is a fascinating collection of essays about Israeli society and its institutions. It is written by practitioners who have experience...

Governing After War - Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding

Governing after War examines how civilians' and rebels' wartime relations affect post-war state-building, development, and violence. When...

Worthy and Unworthy - How the Media Reports on Friends and Foes

An increased understanding of media biases can help to reduce them.

Warriors, Rebels and Saints - The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X

Do leaders make history, or does history make leaders? What should we do when the wrong people are in power? And how can we harness the a...

The Commune Form - The Transformation of Everyday Life

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of libe...

Foreigners' Rights in Japan - Boundaries Between Stayers and Deportees

Do foreigners really have ' human rights' in Japan? This book sheds light on the way Japan views foreigners by examining court cases init...

The Challenges of the New Social Democracy - Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle?

In this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant ...

Technofeudalism - What Killed Capitalism

'What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scar...

We Need To Talk About Xi - What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader

Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basi...

Misbelief - What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve ...

Tyranny of the Minority - How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election 'Tyranny...

Elections: A Very Short Introduction

Elections occur in all democracies and many non-democratic regimes as well. They determine who will hold public office and who will have ...

Fixing Social Security - The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age

How Social Security has shaped American politicsâ ¿and why it faces insolvencySince its establishment, Social Security has become the fin...

Death Penalty in Decline? - The Fight Against Capital Punishment in the Decades Since Furman V. Georgia

"This volume presents essays evaluating the similarities and differences between the legal, political, ethical, and practical landscapes ...

The Canadian Constitution

The Canadian Constitution makes Canada's Constitution readily accessible to readers. This fully updated edition is a great primer for tho...

The Civil Disobedience Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Brief History and Practical Advice for the Politically Disenchanted

As this work shows, non-violent civil disobedience is an American tradition, an essential element of a working democracy.

Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice - Everyday Experiences of Reparation and Reintegration in Colombia

Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global

An exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics--and their connections ...

Meme Wars - How the Fringe Conquered the Mainstream

A groundbreaking investigation into the digital underworld, where far-right operatives wage wars against mainstream America, from a maste...

America's Final War

Warfare is a geopolitical tool of the first order; only wars of scale can measure the real strength of nations. For decades American clai...

Foreign Policy - Theories, Actors, Cases

The only introduction to foreign policy to combine theories, actors, and cases in one volume.

Great Power Competition and Overseas Military Bases - Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the 21st Century

This book reveals the varied motivations for overseas military bases and base access among great powers and offers a valuable window into...

The Dragons and the Snakes - How the Rest Learned to Fight the West

"Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower--a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire ...

The Kindness Fix - How and Why We Must Build a More Compassionate Society

If a measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable, our report card is bleak. Our politics is divided, people in need are t...

Inside Parties - How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness

While extensive research examines electoral systems and institutions at the country-level, few studies investigate rules within parties. ...

Mission to Mao - US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II

"In the midst of World War II, the United States sent a liaison mission to the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines ...

War in Ukraine

In this new edition of their bestselling book, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies bring their account of the war in Ukraine up-to-date, to...

The Picnic - A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picn...

Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle

The Identity Trap - A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Brought to you by Penguin. The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the...

Silencing Citizens - How Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice

Criminal groups, like mafias and gangs, often get away with murder. States are responsible for providing justice but struggle to end this...

Three Faces of Sun Tzu - Analyzing Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' - A Manual on Strategy

Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military & strategic classic of all time. Through 'reverse engineering' o...

Change Everything - Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition

One of the century 's most brilliant activist-scholars explains why the criminal justice system must be dismantled.

The Power of Nothing to Lose - The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War, and Business

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L. Silber explores the Hail Mary effect, from its o...

The Petroleum Papers - Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "An essential read."—The Washington Post "Essential… This book belongs on the shelf next to Merch...

Killing America - Turning the Tide on the Tsunami of Darkness

One Nation Under God? America the beautiful, founded on the God-given rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," is being s...

Governance and Politics of China

The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also those of the world. China is widely recogniz...

Partisan Hostility and American Democracy - Explaining Political Divisions and When They Matter

"An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics n...

What's Killing America - Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities

"Jason Rantz is a radio host, journalist and frequent Fox News guest. In 'What's Killing America', Rantz offers his opinion on the story ...

Practicing Liberation - Transformative Strategies for Collective Healing & Systems Change: Reflections on Burnout, Trauma & Building Communities of Care in Social Justice Work

"Reflections on burnout, trauma & building communities of care in social justice work-for readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haine...

The Brass Check - The Seminal Expose on News Media Censorship and Propaganda

Upton Sinclair's scathing exposé of early 1900's mainstream media and journalism.

End Times - Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A great collected narrative of human hope and human failure' Observe...

Can Academics Change the World? - An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, w...

Transatlantic Radicalism - Socialist and Anarchist Exchanges in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Radical individuals, like anarchists and socialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were quite active when it came to crossing ...

Algeria - History, People and Political Struggle

This book starts by covering the birth of Algerian nation (a community connected by a homeland, the Arabic language, and Islam), gives an...