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From Voice to Influence
Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How have online protests—like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood—changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather...
by Michael Drake
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
This accessible book addresses one of the twenty-first century's most important issues: the increasing lack of connection between political institutions and the social reality of our everyday lives. A gulf between popular expectations and formal politics has widened continually since the revolts against...
American Government
Political Development and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
How politics in America works today, how it got that way, and how it’s likely to change through reform—these are the themes that pervade every chapter of Cal Jillson’s highly lauded American Government: Political Development and Institutional Change. America’s past is present in all aspects...
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could...
Political Biography
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
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The Morning After
The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's most popular political analysts, Chantal Hébert, and one of Quebec's top political broadcasters, Jean Lapierre.
Only the most fearless of political journalists would dare to open the old wounds of the 1995 Quebec...
Politics at Work
How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought.
Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Politics Book elucidates the theoretical foundations-as well as...
Absolute Power
The Helen Clark Years: the compelling unauthorised biography of a political machine
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The most comprehensive biography of Prime Minister Helen Clark and her nine year Labour administration ever published - and the most entertaining.
This #1 bestseller sold more than 20,000 copies. The political left saw it as "a hatchet job" while the right saw it as hard evidence...
Kind of Blue
A Political Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the very heart of government under three prime ministers. He is a political obsessive with a personal hinterland,...
Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O’Malley
The Story of One of Ireland’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland’s most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O’Malley.
Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O’Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats,...
by Austin Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Shortlisted for the Political Books Awards ‘Best Parliamentary Memoir 2018’
Austin Mitchell is a political maverick. For thirty-eight years he was a fly in the parliamentary ointment, a recurring itch on the body politic.
A maverick may annoy the whips, threaten party discipline...
by Kevin Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
If you're like most people then you live your life with no real understanding of the political game in which you're one of the pieces being played. But have no fear. As with any other game, there are explicit strategic and tactical considerations whose mastery will improve your understanding...
Edmund Burke in America
The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729–1797) is a touchstone for modern conservatism in the United States, and his name and his writings have been invoked by figures ranging from the arch Federalist George Cabot to the twentieth-century political philosopher Leo Strauss. But...