Politics / Current Events
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Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order
$17.99 Add to cartThe United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institution… [more below]
- Author: Piereson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1594038953
- Language: English
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The American Campaign, Second Edition: U.S. Presidential Campaigns and the National Vote
$19.95 Add to cartReporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this classroom-tested volume offers again James E. Campbell’s “theory of the predictable campaign,” incorporating the fundamental condit
- Series: Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presi
- Author: Campbell, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 14 2008
- ISBN10: 1585446289
- Language: English
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The Open Conspiracy: What Are We To Do With Our Lives?
$14.95 Add to cartThis is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the “Open Conspiracy”. This conspiracy is ful
- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 1585092754
- Language: English
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Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
$19.99 Add to cartAmerican military bases encircle the globe. More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States still stations its troops at nearly a thousand locations in foreign lands. These base… [more below]
- Author: Vine David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1510728813
- Language: English
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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon
$19.99 Add to cart“A dynamic work of reportage” (The New York Times) written “with clarity and…wit” (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when the ancient boundary between war and peace is erased.Once, … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 147677787X
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$42.00 Add to cartFrom renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world — and increased Russia’s status on the global stage.
How did Russia manage to em… [more below]- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1455533025
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served–From JFK to George W. Bush
$24.99 Add to cartThe most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation’s security. But the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the past half century, presidents have relied on their nati… [more below]
- Author: Daalder, Ivo H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416553207
- Language: English
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The Road to Ukraine: How the West Lost Its Way
$32.99 Add to cartRussia’s invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential questions that emerged before and during this conflict stil… [more below]
- Series: de Gruyter Disruptions #2
- Author: Furedi, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 3110996944
- Language: English
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China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One
$28.00 Read moreIs the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chines
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1350267244
- Language: English
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Layers of Truth: A Novel Set During the Turbulent 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
$24.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is recruiting white college students to teach in Freedom Schools and encourage Blacks to register to vote in the racial hotb
- Author: Turner, Rosalie T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1632935376
- Language: English
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
$29.95 Add to cart“Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”
Why the market will never solve the
–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292303
- Language: English
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Avoiding the Fall
$19.95 Add to cartThe days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructu… [more below]
- Author: Pettis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: September 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0870034073
- Language: English
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God’s Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
$24.99 Add to cartDuring decades of turmoil, war, and regime change in Iraq, one influential figure has loomed above all others: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
As the revered senior Shia cleric in a Shia-majority count
- Author: Jiyad, Sajad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0870785664
- Language: English
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How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think
$16.99 Read moreHow do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple–and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integr
- Author: Andrews, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0849948355
- Language: English
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
$15.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America’s real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists–a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Offic… [more below]
- Author: Suskind, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0743271106
- Language: English
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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought – Expanded Edition
$24.95 Read morePolitics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon
- Series: Princeton Classics #23
- Author: Wolin, Sheldon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: September 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0691174059
- Language: English
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Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
$19.00 Add to cartIn her controversial, no-holds-barred exposé Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid op
- Author: Polman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610580
- Language: English
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Sex and World Peace
$24.95 Add to cartSex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of
- Author: Hudson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0231131836
- Language: English
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Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edit… [more below]
- Author: Gaddis, John Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 23 2005
- ISBN10: 019517447X
- Language: English
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Secret Empires
$19.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption–and winning–for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of t
- Author: Schweizer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0062569376
- Language: English
