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An original account of contemporary US-Latin American relations, this book utilises neo-Gramscian and historical materialist approaches to build a novel conceptual framework for analysing US hegemony, extending critical theory in new and exciting...

Jihadist movements have claimed that they are merely vehicles for the application of God's word, distancing themselves from politics, which they call dirty and manmade. Yet on closer examination, jihadist movements are immersed in politics, negotiating...

Between Pizzagate, QAnon, and the now ubiquitous cries of "fake news," it's tempting to think that we're living in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion-and the delusional...

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government...

From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful women in New York State government history shares her gripping and candid story for the first...

American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679758693Author Dorothy RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484831Author Malcolm NanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225479Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 77g

A major history of America's political parties from the Founding to our embittered presentAmerica’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565846753Author Adolph L. Reed, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 269g

New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214642Author Alexis De TocquevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

How race shapes expectations about whose losses matterIn democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up...

The Conservative Establishment's consensus of the past two generations has almost totally broken down. Conservatism was unable to stop or even slow the Left's rolling revolutions in nearly every sector of American society-from classrooms to boardrooms,...

This book is the first history of UK economic intelligence and offers a new perspective on the evolution of Britain's national intelligence machinery and how it worked during the Cold War.British economic intelligence has a longer pedigree than the Joint...

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that...

This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in...

'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274074Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster

Radical partisanship among ordinary Americans is rising, and it poses grave risks for the prospects of American democracy. Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356991217Author Aakash Singh-RathoreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118107Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 188mm * 109mm...

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician's Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914123Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The major social problems of the United States-deteriorating education, lawlessness and crime, homelessness, the collapse of family values, the crisis in medical care-have been produced by well-intended actions of government. That is easy to document...

New York Times bestselling journalist John Stossel shows how the expansion of government control is destructive for American society.Politicians-and we voters-can dream of guaranteed incomes or green energy. But the mature response to cries of "Yes, we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437117Author John AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 397g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060746889Author Robert F. KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

This book reviews the history of British general elections since 1964, charting the changes in voters and parties at every step. In parallel, it shows how electoral analysts have responded to these developments. This fully revised and updated edition...

America has always been a constitutionally classless society, yet an American aristocracy emerged anyway-a private club whose members run in the same circles and observe the same unwritten rules. Renowned social historian Stephen Birmingham reveals the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460998Author Rachel MaddowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and...

The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s,...

Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses. We rarely think of fascism as...

In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of...

For two decades now, experiences in decentralization and federalization have been in progress in many countries, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. How can these processes be understood and improved? Focusing on four Sub-Saharan countries (Burkina Faso,...

Winner of the STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"This book seems prophetic in the wake of Donald Trump and the current controversy over 'fake news'" Daily Telegraph"One can't help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous,...

This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of...