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New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a ...

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'This is the book Trump fears most.' - Axios

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One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review "A powerful, and in many insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, n...

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The economic operating system keeps crashing. Its time to upgrade to a new one. Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recogn...

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An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now wagedand how to adapt to this new reality This brisk everymans guidestraight-talking and free of jargonis a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . ...

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With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West an alternative, and with it came a new form of po...

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BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST. Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trum...

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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 2022 IPPY AWARDS GOLD MEDALIST SCIENCE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST POLITICAL 2021 WORLD MAGAZINE ACCESSIBLE SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR HONORABLE MENTION "Unsettled is a remarkable bookprobably the be...

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The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today.Paul Kenned...

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This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debate...

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The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a glo...

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President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. 'I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe tha...

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In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frdric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goe...

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The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracia...

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WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Paul Kennedys international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might. Kennedys masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centr...

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An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by th...

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In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics , Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in income and wealth between nations and among groups within nations. A wide range of geographic, demog...

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The way war is waged is evolving quicklyigniting the rise of private military contractors that offer military-style services as part of their core business model. Arduino unpacks the tradeoffs involved when conflict is increasingly waged not by na...

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Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduces and a...

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This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the governments best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce probl...

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A call to arms by a group of French intellectuals that rejects leftist reform and aligns itself with younger, wilder forms of resistance. Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe...

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The case studies in this volume examine the activities of faith-based institutions in a representative sample of African and Latin American countries, including societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and states with different l...

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The United States is undergoing a profound and radical transformation, all features of which point to the fact of its departure at an accelerated rate from its largely self-proclaimed status as a global hegemon. The United States has lost ground i...

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This in...

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A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of...

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A Threshold Editions Book. Threshold Editions has a great book for every reader.

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Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Two decades ago, at th...

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