Political science and theory

This political guide helps us understand why the federal government is designed as it is and how it can be fixed.

Playing Politics is a very thought provocative book unusually written with a very unordinary perspective.

The political right is at an inflection point.

Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures?

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births.

Glenn foretells of a united world government led by a world leader who becomes envisioned is the Messiah in Judaism, the second coming or resurrection in Christianity and Islam, and would have a place of reverence in many other religions, and respect among the nonreligious.

The unnecessary wars get declared when US, as a powerful country, supports one country while opposing the other countries, such as the Middle Eastern wars, causing waste of money and countless lives.

Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future.

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "e;crisis of democracy"e;, the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned.

Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Management & Workplace CultureAn expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.

Common Sense and Other Writings, by Thomas Paine, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical and political action in the polis.

This book attacks a poison that for so very long we have called political correctness.

The book shows that from the last two decades of the twentieth century and the end of the Cold War in 1991, a shift occurred in inter-American geopolitics as the United States emerged as the dominant global structural power.

Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.

A devastating catalog of Barack Obama’s numerous evasions, misleading statements and blatant lies, from statements in his national bestseller Dreams from My Father to “You can keep your health plan,” PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year.

Martin Luther King once insisted that 'a riot is the language of the unheard.

Cet ouvrage, qui renoue avec les grands textes amoureux de la civilisation arabo-musulmane, presente l'histoire d'une passion amoureuse foudroyante, et l'etat de devastation dans lequel la narratrice s'est retrouvee a la suite de cette relation.

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that all men are created equal .

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century.

America the beautiful has become America the bizarre.

A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.

Amartya Sen is one of the world s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe.

La justice pénale baigne dans un univers symbolique : frontispices, statues de Dame Justice avec sa balance, son glaive et son bandeau sur les yeux, etc.

Since its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington's chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both political parties and the epicenter of a scandal that brought down a president.

President Obama ran on promises of bipartisanship and centrism, but he's delivered something else: unprecedented government borrowing and spending, unsustainable debt, and audacious attempts to usher in a colossal, overbearing government, the likes of which we've never seen.

Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York.

A state of the union address as the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first-from the New York Times-bestselling author of America, the Last Best Hope.

This book analyzes the way media describe presidential candidates' character and the degree to which this discourse maintains a preference for masculinity in our politics, using content analysis of major print new media outlets.