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  • How to Abolish Prisons

    Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment

    An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.Drawing on extensive ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Return of the Primitive

    The Anti-Industrial Revolution

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd.In Return Of The Primitive (originally ... Read more

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  • Tweeting to Power

    The Social Media Revolution in American Politics

    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage in politics. Gainous and Wagner propose that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offer the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Presidential Leadership in Political Time

    Reprise and Reappraisal

    In this expanded third edition, renowned scholar Stephen Skowronek, addresses Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Skowronek’s insights have fundamentally altered our understanding of the American presidency. His “political time” thesis has been particularly influential, revealing how presidents reckon with the work of their predecessors, situate their power within recent political events, and assert ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher EducationIn 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    “From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and moment... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Envy in Politics

    Series Book 5 - Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon contends that if we want to understand these and other forms of puzzling political behavior, we should ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • America's Revolutionary Mind

    A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It

    America's Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Wood's The Creation of the American Republic.The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hope in the Dark

    Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

    “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice).A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Insecurity

    Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

    by Astra Taylor ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Finalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political WritingThese days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going on?In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Who Really Killed Kennedy?

    50 Years Later: Stunning New Revelations About the JFK Assassination

    by Jerome Corsi ...
    Almost nothing gives rise to more national intrigue than the murder of an American president. And on November 22, 2013, the nation remembered the 50th anniversary of one of the most traumatic events in modern American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.From day one, the truth behind JFK’s assassination has been mired in controversy and dispute. The Warren Commission, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wretched of the Earth

    Translated by Richard Philcox ...
    With a new essayFans of Fanon’s work include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine, Cornel West, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Desmond Cole, John Edgar Wideman, Mitchell Jackson, among othersTie-in to 60th anniversary of the publication of Wretched of the Earth and of Frantz Fanon’s death ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On Dupont Circle

    Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World

    by James Srodes ...
    Prize–winning author James Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating portrait of the twelve young men and women who, on the eve of World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.'s tony Dupont Circle neighborhood. They were ambitious for personal and social advancement, and what bound them together was a sheer determination to remake America and the rest of the world in their progressive image.At one ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle

    Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st-Century Left

    by Jonas Ceika ...
    From the creator of the Cuck Philosophy YouTube channel comes this timely and explosive re-evaluation of Marx and Nietzsche for the 21st-century left.Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction.Over the last century, the means which threaten not only life's joy but its very existence have only multiplied. At the same time, as a new wave of nationalism and right-wing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • James Madison

    America's First Politician

    by Jay Cost ...
    **An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it **How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Imagined Communities

    Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

    **This world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations.“One of the greatest.” —London Review of Books“Anderson transformed the study of nationalism.” —The New York Times“Boldly original.” —Guardian**The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Comrade

    An Essay on Political Belonging

    by Jodi Dean ...
    When people say “comrade,” they change the worldIn the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade.” Now, among the left, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies.” In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relationship of political belonging that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • China

    by Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Polity Histories
    China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Western ideas into the country two centuries ago, China's long march to global primacy has been above all an epic fight to renew an ancient country and culture.Leading Sinologist Kerry Brown traces this ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • By One Vote

    The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876

    Series series American Presidential Elections
    With electoral votes disputed in three states, a Democrat winning the popular vote, and the Supreme Court stepping in to overrule Florida court decisions, the presidential election of 1876 was an eerie precursor to that of 2000. Rutherford Hayes’s defeat of Samuel Tilden has been dubbed the “fraud of the century”; now one of America’s preeminent political historians digs deeper to unravel its real ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Blessed Are the Organized

    Grassroots Democracy in America

    by Jeffrey Stout ...
    How ordinary citizens band together to bring about real changeIn an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Working outside the notice of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cameroun, quel avenir ?

    Pourquoi le président Ahmadou Ahidjo quitte-t-il précipitamment le Cameroun le 29 octobre 1982 pour un voyage privé en France ? Pourquoi Germaine, son épouse, l’y rejoint-elle deux jours après ? Comment se déroule le premier conseil des ministres de Paul Biya ? D’où proviennent les rumeurs de « bicéphalisme » à la tête de l’État début 1983 ? Pourquoi le nouveau président choisit-il la France pour ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hugo Grotius and the Modern Theology of Freedom

    Transcending Natural Rights

    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often argue that this secular focus on merely avoiding violations can also enable unfettered individualism and undermine appeals to the common good.This book uncovers in secular rights pioneer Hugo Grotius a rights theory that points toward the enlargement of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Penguin History of the World

    6th edition

    This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World.For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book. Now, for the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD