Political Science

Exploring the politics of housing from 1890-1990, this fascinating study examines the interaction not only of national and local politics but also of local factors such as civic culture, key local players, local discourse and geographical and demographic...

In 2011, as the Arab uprisings spread across the Middle East, Jordan remained more stable than any of its neighbors. Despite strife at its borders and an influx of refugees connected to the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS, as well as its own...

As scholars and citizens, we are predisposed to think of war as a profoundly destructive activity that ideally should be abolished altogether. Yet before the twentieth century, war was widely understood as a productive force in human affairs that should...

GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the...

Tax cuts are such a pervasive feature of the American political landscape that the political establishment rarely questions them. Since 2001, Congress has abolished the tax on inherited wealth and passed a major income tax cut every year, including two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245416Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

"Kitchens" takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to...

The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship"A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A Financial Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398423763Author Lanna BreetzkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

When and why do governments promote women's rights? Through comparative analysis of state action in seventy countries from 1975 to 2005, this book shows how different women's rights issues involve different histories, trigger different conflicts, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679418Author Eric SchutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies of economic reform in the provinces that have now become national policy? What does Zhao Ziyang's...

Despite a recent decline in voter turnout, British general elections are still the centrepiece of Britain's liberal democracy and their results make a real difference to every British citizen. They command strong media interest long before their dates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250777744Author Nathan J RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to...

Based on the theoretical reconstruction of neglected post-WWI writings and political action of W. E. B. Du Bois, this volume offers a normative account of transnational cosmopolitanism. Pointing out the limitations of Kant's cosmopolitanism through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815777731Author Stephen I. SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063142176Author David EnrichFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984854681Author Michael S. SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606459Author A.C. MetaxasFormat HardbackPage Count 596Imprint Maida Vale PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 788gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and...

What is Hamas's history; its key beliefs; and its political agenda? From its' founding, following the First Intifada, to the 2008 Israeli Gaza offensive, Khaled Hroub writes this indispensable introduction to Hamas. The book encompasses all major...

The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity...

A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"In any circumstances Andrzej Walicki's book would be interesting and very useful, for it covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great down to the eve of the 1905...

The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593388Author Dark Star CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 380g

In January 2013, France intervened in its former African colony, Mali, to stop an Al Qa'ida advance on the capital. French special forces, warplanes, and army units struck with rapid and unexpected force. Their intervention quickly repelled the jihadist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815732785Author Hal BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking Czechoslovakia's similarly peaceful overthrow of communism 30...

In less than a quarter century, China has gone from one of the poorest to one of the largest economies in the world. As China grew from a rural economy to the largest industrial powerhouse since the Industrial Revolution, it demanded more and more steel...

Conventional warfare-clashes between large military forces-defined twentieth-century power. But today, facing a dominant American military, principal adversaries Russia, China and Iran, have adopted a new style of competition. Cyber attacks, covert...

This book is a scathing account of George W. Bush's America before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Saul Landau delves into the erosion of civil liberties and the proliferation of empire under the guise of pre-empting the scourge of terrorism. He...

While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still mostly relate to Western democracies. Magyar and Madlovics strongly argue for a vocabulary and grammar...

The standard classifications of health systems don't allow for the complexity and variety that exists around the world. Federico Toth sets out a new framework for understanding the many ways in which health systems can be organized and systematically...

Violence and the Third World in International Relations is intended as a contribution to the decolonization of international relations, and especially of international security studies, much of which is dominated by a self-sustaining Eurocentrism. Rather...

"Michael Yates's passion and respect for the class he came out of delivers a book that is especially accessible without retreating from the complexities and internal contradictions of working class life and organization-a book committed not only to...

This book focuses on the very topical subject of police reform in the UK. Currently, the police service is undergoing a time of significant change and reform as a result of the 'modernisation' agenda. Planned force re-structuring, the performance...

Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Five years ago, these terms were meaningless to the vast majority of people in the world. Today, they and many like them dominate the news and keep policymakers,...

In this much-lauded memoir, acclaimed for its blend of literary elegance and political passion, Rossana Rossanda, a legendary figure on the Italian left, reflects on a life of radical commitment.Active as a communist militant in the Italian Resistance...

Welcome to the Drone Age. Where self-defense has become naked aggression. Where courage has become cowardice. Where black ops have become standard operating procedure. In this remarkable and often shocking book, Laurie Calhoun dissects the moral,...