Politics category: 19839 books
High-Risers
Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic...
Fast Future
How the Millennial Generation Is Shaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A millennial examines how his generation is profoundly impacting politics, business, media, and activism
They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history, and even the dumbest generation. But, argues David Burstein, the millennial generation’s unique...
by Robert E. England, John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Managing Urban America guides students through the challenges, politics, and practice of urban management—including managing conflict through politics, adapting to demographic and social changes, balancing budgets, and delivering a myriad of goods and services to citizens in an efficient, equitable,...
Austerity Ireland
The Failure of Irish Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the countrys ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen challenges this official image and argues that the Irish state's...
Power Trip
A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon...
Debtors' Prison
The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic crisis like ours or Europe’s, now in its fifth year.
Since...
Man for All Seasons
The Life and Times of Ken Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
**A major biography of Ken Douglas, the most powerful union leader in modern New Zealand history.**Ken Douglas was raised in a hardworking, tough-talking, union-focussed Wellington family and got into union politics as a very young working man. Hard-nosed, pragmatic and never scared of a scrap, he...
Power Trip
The Epilogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
*The Explosive New Chapters* The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters...
Compassionate Conservatism
What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government. No author...
by Hermene Hartman, David Smallwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years.
Until Julius Comes
Adventures in the Political Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
"Until Julius Comes" is a boisterous, unprecedented journey through the wilds of South African politics in an election year. With his sharp wit and perceptive observations, Richard Poplak exposes the tricks of the political trade and the skulduggery that comes with it. Writing under the...
The Year of Voting Dangerously
The Derangement of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history.
Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking...
The Politics of the Piazza
The History and Meaning of the Italian Square
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas and situates these...
by Anthony King
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformation lies at the heart of British politics today. Imagining - or pretending - that the British political...