Social science / Political science

A Country At War With Itself: South Africa'S Crisis Of Crime

by Antony Altbeker

Crime is tearing South Africa apart. Whether it is hijacking or rape, a home robbery or a husband's explosion of rage, violence is so common that few lives have been left untouched by it. The result is a society...

America and the Imperialism of Ignorance: US Foreign Policy Since 1945

by Andrew Alexander

American incomprehension of the outside world has been the chief problem in international affairs since the end of World War II. In America and the Imperialism of Ignorance, veteran political journalist Andrew...

Making the Difference: Essays in Honour of Shirley Williams

by Andrew Duff

To mark the occasion of Baroness Williams' eightieth birthday in July 2010, Biteback is proud to publish a collection of essays by her peers, contemporaries and proteges on the themes and issues she has campaigned...

The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq

by Bing West

From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around-–and the choice now facing America. 

In the course of 14 extended...

50 Facts That Should Change the World

by Jessica Williams

In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms.  Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s...

A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy

by Martin Bell

The revelations over MPs expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis in confidence unprecedented in modern times. This was a 21st-century Peasants Revolt,...

America, But Better: The Canada Party Manifesto

by Chris Cannon & Brian Calvert

As the American election increasingly resembles a production of CATS performed by actual cats, U.S. citizens are looking for a new leader. That leader is Canada, and they want your vote for president of the...

Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab World and the Christian West

by Milton Viorst

America’s engagement with the Arab world stretches back far beyond the Iraq wars. According to Milton Viorst, the current conflict is simply the latest round in a 1,400-year struggle between Christianity and...

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

by Stokely Carmich Carmichael (Kwame Ture) & Mumia Abu-Jamal

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that...

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

by Lynn Povich

The untold story of an uprising that transformed the Mad Men office culture: its bittersweet impact on the women involved, and what has—and hasn't—changed

A Ditch in Time: The City, the West and Water

by Patricia Nelson Nelson Limerick & Jason Hanson

A study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation.

The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude

by Andrew Nikiforuk

By the winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award

Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century...

Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

Lionel Gelber Prize 2011

by Shelagh D. D. Grant

Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty...

I Know What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs (and Other Scientific, Political, and Religious Theories)

by William Caan & Cara van Miriah

Theories abound. But few people have any; most people have opinions. And not to be confused, theories and opinions are like freedom and liberty, two different animals. Most people know only what they have been...

Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too

by Claire Berlinski

Old Europe’s new crisis.

Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical...

Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship

by Ken Silverstein

“As I have often said, I would represent the devil himself for the right price–it’s not personal, just business.”

–a Washington, D.C., lobbyist

For nearly as long as there have been politicians in the...

Globalization and American Popular Culture

by Lane Crothers

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular products such as movies, music, television programs, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles...

Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics

by Ronald V. Bettig & Jeanne Lynn Hall

Big Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry. With three new chapters on the film industry, the music industry, and “ad creep,” the second edition takes...

A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America

by Jim Webb

“I’m the only person in the history of Virginia elected to statewide office with a Union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos."

Jim Webb—the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S....

In from the Shadow: Integrating Europe's Informal Labor

by Truman G. Packard & Johannes Koettl

What to do about the extent of unregulated informal employment and the size of the shadow economy is a dilemma that has been gaining urgency, particularly in Europe's periphery. The forces that accompany globalization...