Politics & Government

Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and prac...

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recogn...

A ... Personal Detective Story, An Uncovering Of Secret Pasts, And A Book That Explores The Creation And Development Of World-changing Legal Concepts That C...

Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a 'systematic effort to give a theoretical foundat...

Economics Is Too Important To Be Left To The Economists. This Concise And Readable Book Provides Non-specialist Readers With All The Information They Need T...

This volume explores the issues associated with the complex subject of water quality protection in an assessment of the successes and failures of the Clean...

Corporate America increasingly relies on environmentally unsustainable forms of production, and not all Americans bear their costs equally. People of color ...

When The U.s. Public Health Service Endorsed Water Fluoridation In 1950, There Was Little Evidence Of Its Safety. Now, Six Decades Later And After Most Coun...

Mike Pompeo Recounts His Political Career-- Mike Pompeo Is The Only Person Ever To Have Served As Both America's Most Senior Diplomat And The Head Of Its Pr...

Reformulates Immigrant Rights Movements Within A Transnational Analysis Of Capitalism, Labor Exploitation, Settler Colonialism, State Building, And Racializ...

Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given ...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

Paul Hellyer's Amazing Book Reveals How A Small Group Of Greedy Men Usurped The People's Power, And Used Politicians To Transfer That Power To A Cabal Dedic...

The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system....

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S....

In the Age of Terrorism, the United States has become a much more dangerous place-for activists and dissenters, whose First Amendment rights are all too fr...

An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship betwee...

Part 1. Introduction -- Introduction: Navigating The Perfect Moral Storm In Light Of A Thirty-five Year Debate -- Thirty-five Year Climate Change Policy Deb...

They call it 'collateral damage', but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention', i...

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this question, William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S....

Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite dete...

Sacrifice Zones Is The Compelling Companion Work To Diamond, Steve Lerner's Landmark Study Of A Small Louisiana Town Coping With The Ravages Of Pollution Fr...

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, a...

Merchants Of Doubt Tells The Story Of How A Loose-knit Group Of High-level Scientists And Scientific Advisers, With Deep Connections In Politics And Indust...

in 1983, The U.n. General Assembly Created The World Commission On Environment And Development, An Independent Committee Of Twenty-two Members, Headed By ...

A powerful exposé that calls into question Edward Snowden's hero status and uncovers how vulenerable our national security systems have become.Edward Snow...

John Taylor Gatto ; Foreword By Zachary Slayback.Categories: Parenting & RelationshipsReference

USA Today bestseller!\Do recent changes in the Middle East signal peace? One Arab country after another is signing historic, game-changing peace, trade, inv...

Building On The Success Of Its Second Edition, The Third Edition Of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader Provide A Generous Selection Of Classic And Con...

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked t...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

The Garcías—Dr. Carlos (Papi), his wife Laura (Mami), and their four daughters, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—belong to the uppermost echelon of Spani...

Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful ...

The First Book In The Women's Suffrage And The Struggle For Democracy Series Provides A Nuanced View Of Women's Fight For The Vote At A Federal Level. Accla...

All revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold, become constituent parts of the social fabric,...

America is on the road to tyranny and socialism, and only a national return to transcendent values and proven traditions will bring us back to freedom and ...

From The Bestselling Author Of Lawrence In Arabia, A Gripping History Of The Early Years Of The Cold War, The Cia's Covert Battles Against Communism, And Th...

Hailed For Her “fearless Indictment Of The Most Powerful Man In Russia” (the Wall Street Journal), Award-winning Journalist Masha Gessen Is Unparalleled...

From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred exposé of the people and institutions who are letting Amer...

In this new edition of Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations, Brigadier General (Retired)...

Chantal Hébert’s first book is both a post-mortem of the Canadian federation that died on January 23, 2006, the night of the last federal election, as wel...

Burning To Death Is A Hellish Way To Die. Yet Every Year Men And Women Across The Country Risk Their Lives For Low Pay To Fight Forest Fires. Living In Remo...

A Wall Street Journal Business Reporter Unveils The Story Of How Math Genius Tom Hayes, His Associates, And A Deeply Corrupt Banking System Ignited One Of T...

With Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl Wudunn As Our Guides, We Undertake An Odyssey Through Africa And Asia To Meet The Extraordinary W...

Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent a...

American Constitutional Law, Volume I Provides A Comprehensive Account Of The Nation's Defining Document, Examining How Its Provisions Were Originally Under...

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but h...

why, For Two Hundred Years, Have Some American Citizens Seen This Country As An Endangered Eden, To Be Purged Of Corrupting Peoples Or Ideas By Any Means Ne...