NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States "Like those who...
Political science
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Author:Walter, Barbara F.Summary: - Author:Kendi, Ibram X.Summary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” ( Time ) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. “...
- Author:Wyatt, ValerieSummary:
Want to build your very own country from scratch? It's easy in 3 easy steps. Step 1: Stake Out Your Identity, with a flag, money and a national anthem. Step 2: Run the Country, with a government, constitution, laws and an economy....
- Author:Lindsay, James, Boghossian, Peter G.Summary:
In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a civil conversation with someone of a different opinion. Here, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide listeners through techniques necessary for every successful...
- Author:Tinlin, Marijo N.Summary:
In recent years, it has become fashionable to bash the United States, to discuss how destructive we have been as a nation and to deny this country of its founding principles. Most Americans simply do not agree with that. They believe we...
- Author:Pollak, JoelSummary:
From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the White House until very late on Election Night 2016, media and pollsters kept insisting Trump wouldn't--couldn't--be president. But for Larry Schweikart-one of a...
- Author:Rushford, GregSummary:
Get the inside scoop on the most powerful city on Earth Washington, D.C.: Capital of the Free World; the most powerful city on Earth. No other country, company, or international organization can compare with the reach and wealth of the...
- Author:Streeck, Wolfgang, Birch, AdelynSummary:
The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical...
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In all civilized nations, attempts are made to define and buttress human rights. The core of the concept is the same everywhere: Human rights are the rights that one has simply because one is human. They are universal and equal. The...
- Author:Clément, DominiqueSummary:
This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history—one...
- Author:Pils, Eva.Summary:
How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system' Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of...
- Author:Lautensach, Alexander, Lautensach, SabinaSummary:
This first and only university textbook of human security is intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up includes chapters by 24 authors,from BC, Canada, and around the globe, that encompass the full spectrum of...
- Author:Penikett, TonySummary:
Canadian politicians, like many of their circumpolar counterparts, brag about their country’s “Arctic identity” or “northern character,” but what do they mean, exactly? Stereotypes abound, from Dudley Do-Right to Northern Exposure, but...
- Author:Leonnig, Carol, Rucker, PhilipSummary:
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What...
- Author:Akunyili-Parr, ChidiogoSummary:
Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu — the importance of community over the individual — and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A...
- Author:Yousafzai, MalalaSummary:
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took...
- Author:Horowitz, DavidSummary:
Despite its claim to be an "inclusive and spacious movement," David Horowitz argues that Black Lives Matter divides Americans by race, class, and party in pursuit of a radical agenda that would impoverish and degrade everyone...
- Author:Holland, Sarah StewartSummary:
Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems...
- Author:Bernauer, Warren, Hicks, Jack, Scottie, JoanSummary:
Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community...
- Author:Gretton, DanSummary:
Dan Gretton presents an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the "desk killers" who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
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