Social science / Political science

Get Opinionated: A Progressive's Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action)

by Amanda Marcotte

For those who like their politics blunt, raw, and uncompromising comes Get Opinionated--a guide to the issues you care about: environmentalism, reproductive rights and access, taxes and public wealth, GLBTQ...

The Right Balance: Canada's Conservative Tradition

by Hugh Segal

In a manner that reflects his long-time academic and practitioner’s association with conservative politics and ideas in Canada, Hugh Segal traces the deep historical roots of Canadian conservatism and the...

Rules for Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and...

Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against...

An Imperfect Offering

by James Orbinski

"This book is a series of stories in which I ask, again and again, 'how to be in relation to the suffering of others.' It is a personal narrative about the political journey I have taken over the last twenty...

God and Country

by Monique El-Faizy

In this important exploration of one of the most misunderstood phenomena of our day, former fundamentalist Christian Monique El-Faizy argues that evangelicals have become the new establishment, constituting...

An American Voter

by Joan Sullivan

When Joan Sullivan was sixteen, her sister got married on their sprawling farm in New Jersey. Bill Bradley, the senator and former NBA player, was among the guests. Suddenly, magically, Joan found herself on...

Black in the White House

by Ron Christie

As a black conservative, Ron Christie takes the road less traveled and often takes heat for it from the liberal black establishment. His insider accounts of his time working for both President George W. Bush...

Omnipotent Government

by Mises, Ludwig Von

OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT- The Rise of the Total State and Total War BY Ludwig von Mises. Preface: IN dealing with the problems of social and economic policies, the social sciences consider only one question whether...

Democratic Governance

by Mark Bevir

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style...

Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture

by John Strausbaugh

A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.

Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration...

Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-Of-Force Decision Making

by Bradley F. Podliska

Acting Alone offers an unprecedented scientifically-based answer to the question of why presidents, regardless of political party, make decisions to use unilateral military force. By using three methods to test...

Social Security Handbook 2010: Overview of Social Security Programs

by Federal Government

The Social Security Handbook: Overview of Social Security Programs, 2010 provides information about Social Security programs and services, and identifies rights and obligations under the Social Security laws....

Culturally Incorrect

by Rod Parsley

Parsley exposes the failure of the current generation of believers to engage the culture, present a relevant gospel, and lead/influence through service - and paints a vivid picture of the cost and implications...

Hoodwinked

by Jack Cashill

For a century, "progressive" writers and filmmakers-multiculturalists like Ward Churchill and Alex Haley, sexual revolutionaries like Kinsey and Margaret Mead, quasi-Marxists like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore,...

Contractor Combatants

by Carter Andress

The enemy is everywhere in war-torn Iraq, and suppliers and construction workers run the same risks as uniformed combatants: guerrilla attacks, suicide bombings, rocket bombardments, and road mines. This is...

Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All

by Craig Shirley

Today's political scene looks nothing like it did thirty years ago, and that is due mostly to Reagan's monumental reshaping of the Republican party. What few people realize, however, is that Reagan's revolution...

Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions

by Michael Savage

Dr. Savage, sage prophet of the airwaves, has been diagnosing liberal mental illness for more than a decade. Now, in his third and most insightful book, he strikes at the root of today's most desperate issues,...

The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

by Andrew Napolitano

What ever happened to our inalienable rights?

The Constitution was once the bedrock of our country, an unpretentious parchment that boldly established the God-given rights and freedoms of America. Today that...

A Jealous God

by Pamela Winnick

The age-old war between religion and science has taken a new twist. Once the dedicated scientist-martyr fought heroically against rigid religionists. But now the tables have turned, and it is established science...