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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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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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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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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 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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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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The Climate Majority Project: Setting the Stage for a Mainstream, Urgent Climate Movement

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Climate migration, as an image of people moving due to sea-level rise and increased drought, has been presented as one of the main security risks of global warming. The rationale is that climate change will cause mass movements of climate refugees...

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One of the most dramatic and least studied policy changes of the past twenty years is the increased use of indexing-automatic adjustments for inflation-in federal programs. Currently, programs comprising more than one-third of the federal budget h...

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First published in 1989, The Goals of Social Policy is an invaluable text that will give students an admirable introduction to the central concerns of the study of social policy. It asks what have been the traditional concerns of social policy as ...

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expandin...

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The story of Ed Miliband's attempt to put Labour back into power after just five years in opposition: the challenges he has faced, the difficulties - and the colleagues - he has had to deal with, some of the mistakes he has made, and the successes...

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This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined. Despite professionalised welfare states and strong economies, in many adv...

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In "The Truly Disadvantaged", renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conserv...

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The Best of Thomas Sowell is for fans and foes of Dr. Sowell's remarkable intellectual career; as well as those who have yet to experience his cognitive clarity, rarity, and dexterity. Carefully sorted by topic, over 30 years of unmatched writing ...

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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics. Find out why whatyou know about American income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-being is wrong. A former United States senator, eminent economist, and a former senior lead...

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Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision...

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