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  • The Shaming State

    How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need

    by Sara Salman ...
    WINNER, 2024 Jock Young Criminological Imagination Book Award, given by the Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice of American Society of CriminologyA riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, andhumanityThe Shaming State argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Being Sociological

    by Sara Salman, Daniel R. Smith, Suzanne Woodward, Adrian Franklin, Kate Huppatz, Mary Holmes, Raelene Wilding, Farzana Shain, Chamsy el-Ojeili, Dylan Taylor, David Bartram, Luke Goode, Chris Rojek, Stephanie Baker, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Tracey McIntosh, Dr Lucy Mayblin ...
    Being Sociological considers the lived experience of sociology, stressing the active nature of social life and highlighting the role that students can play in enacting social change. Fully reworked in this third edition, with five brand new chapter topics and a diverse roster of new contributors, this textbook presents a fresh take on society today.The book encourages readers to examine both ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Good Economics for Hard Times

    by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo ...
    "A treasure trove of insight" (The Economist) from the winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is ... Read more

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  • State Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq.The formation of proper public institutions, such as an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What the U.S. Can Learn from China

    An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher

    by Ann Lee ...
    The author examines what China can teach the U.S. in education, economic policy, foreign policy, strategic planning, and politics.While America reeled from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China's economy was the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States'. President Obama called China's rise "a Sputnik moment ... Read more

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  • This Changes Everything

    Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement

    by Sarah van Gelder ...
    We Are the 99% The Occupy Wall Street movement named the core issue of our time: the overwhelming power of Wall Street and large corporations— something the political establishment and most media have long ignored. But the movement goes far beyond this critique. This Changes Everything shows how the movement is shifting the way people view themselves and the world, the kind of society they believe ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

    by Fredrik deBoer ...
    An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, “one of the sharpest and funniest writers on the internet” (The New York Times).In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fixing Failed States

    A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

    by Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart ...
    Today between forty and sixty nations, home to more than one billion people, have either collapsed or are teetering on the brink of failure. The world's worst problems--terrorism, drugs and human trafficking, absolute poverty, ethnic conflict, disease, genocide--originate in such states, and the international community has devoted billions of dollars to solving the problem. Yet by and large the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision

    A Progressive's Handbook

    by George Lakoff ...
    Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don't Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:* What is the progressive vision of America;* Why progressive values are America's values;* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;* Why ... Read more

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  • Who Really Cares

    The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism -- America's Charity Divide -- Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters

    by Arthur C. Brooks ...
    We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Doing Bad by Doing Good

    Why Humanitarian Action Fails

    by Christopher J. Coyne ...
    In 2010, Haiti was ravaged by a brutal earthquake that affected the lives of millions. The call to assist those in need was heard around the globe. Yet two years later humanitarian efforts led by governments and NGOs have largely failed. Resources are not reaching the needy due to bureaucratic red tape, and many assets have been squandered. How can efforts intended to help the suffering fail so ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Foreign Affairs Strategy

    Logic for American Statecraft

    by Terry L. Deibel ...
    This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on American foreign policy, this book discusses the national interest as a concept in strategic logic and describes how to select objectives that will take advantage of opportunities to promote interests, while protecting them against threats. It also discusses national power and influence, as well as the political, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD