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Hormegeddon: How Too Much of a Good Thing Leads to Disaster
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"Hormegeddon" is the term coined by entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author Bill Bonner to describe what happens when you get too much of a good thing in the...
Genocide Perspectives VI: The Process and the Personal Cost of
Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American
A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words- 'The world is split between those...
The Prince
Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today...
Trade Unions and Politics
The relationship between the British trade union movement and political organizations and activity, notably the Labour Party, is a subject of continuing controversy and interest. New legislation, based on the...
Modern Romania: The End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic
Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic...
The President of Good and Evil: Taking George W. Bush Seriously
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Peter Singer's examination of Bush's ethics asks whether they are anything more than self-serving - an important question, since the actions which follow the rhetoric affect the lives of everyone...
Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have...
Generating Socialism: Recollections of Life in the Labour Party
A study of the Labour Party from its founding up to the present day based on information gathered from Labour activists around Britain as part of the Labour Oral History...
Power and Personality
This book concerns the wanting, getting, and giving of power. Recent advances in medicine, sociology, and psychology have deepened our understanding of the motives, skills, and experience that operate between...
Herbert Hoover: A Life
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"At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full... [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated the arc of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century."-David...
Revolution And Transition In East-central Europe: Second Edition
Eastern and Western Europe continue to change in their relationship to one another and in their ongoing dynamic with the post-Soviet states. Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian crisis...
The End of the Republican Era
In The End of the Republican Era , Theodore J. Lowi predicts not only a collapse of the Republican coalition but also the potential collapse of the United States' republican...
Who Rules America? Power and Politics
Drawing from a power elite perspective and the latest empirical data, Domhoff's classic text is an invaluable tool for teaching students about how power operates in U.S. society.
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
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An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five
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"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.
Leadership
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects-from politics to business. Leadership , Burns's pioneering study, introduces the highly...
Red White and Liberal
As one of the foremost liberal voices in television and talk radio today, Alan Colmes has long been braving the wilds of controversial issues and conservative slander. Already a talk...
Beautiful Things: A Memoir
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love," Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and "unflinchingly honest" (...
Beyond Belief - Rethinking the Voice to Parliament
In Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament, twelve distinguished Australians set out their reasons why we need to question the wisdom of enshrining a Voice to parliament by amending...
Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in Contemporary South
In March 1998, India broke a quarter-century's silence when it detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert. Having announced it possessed the requisite credentials for membership in...
The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England
Contents: 'The Communist Manifesto; The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844'; 'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific' With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe...
No Filters: a mother and teenage daughter love story
Honest, funny, moving conversations about mental health, identity and contemporary issues between bestselling author and her teenage daughter 'Fascinating... a much needed conversation between generations' THE TIMES How can we...
Growing the Productivity of Government Services
Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization's outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in...
In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative Christians Are the
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Political consultant and commentator Patrick Hynes dispels common stereotypes and misapprehensions about the most powerful political constituency in the country while undertaking the most exhaustive effort yet to define what...
Was Jefferson Davis Right?
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Jefferson Davis, captured, imprisoned, and charged with 1) conspiracy and culpability in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 2) conspiracy to cause the deaths of Northern P.O.W.'s at Andersonville, Georgia, a...
The Phantom Public
In an era disgusted with politicians and the various instruments of "direct democracy," Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever. It reveals Lippmann at a time when...
Our Times in Rhymes: Being a Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age
Our Times in Rhymes is a waspish, affectionate and very funny look at the state of our beloved nation. A parliament of fools, or a confederacy of dunces? Blethering celebrities...
Feminasty: Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy, the
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From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and...
What Trump's Second Term Means for Australia: The shocking
Leading expert and US and Australian politics insider Bruce Wolpe reveals the many ways in which Australia has already been damaged by Donald Trump. Seeping into Australia from above and...
Poison Tea
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" Poison Tea shines a spotlight on the shadowy Koch brother network and reveals hidden connections between the tobacco industry, the reclusive billionaire brothers, and the Tea Party movement. It's...
A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian
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The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist...
Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America's Greatest Leader
This title provides personal reflections on Lincoln's life and legacy. In "Lincoln Lessons", seventeen of today's most respected academics, historians, lawyers, and politicians provide candid reflections on the importance of...
Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made
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The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded. A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a...
The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy
The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin...
From Salisbury to Major
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This history examines the Conservative Party's ability to dominate British politics. It takes as its key themes the party's relationship with mass democracy and its willingness to adapt, often at...