Social science / Political science / Cultural Policy

Is the Good Book Good Enough?: Evangelical Perspectives on Public Policy

by David K. Ryden

The book analyzes evangelical Christianity as a comprehensive perspective for understanding the range of contemporary policy issues in America. It finds that evangelicalism can be understood as a distinctive...

Crime Control, Politics and Policy (1st edition title: What's Wrong with the Criminal Justice System: Ideology, Politics and the Media): What's Wrong

by Peter K. Benekos & Alida V. Merlo

This book reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapters summarize developments in public policy and crime control,...

The Next Big Story: My Journey Through the Land of Possibilities

by Soledad O'Brien & Rose Marie Arce

From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastating Haiti earthquake,...

His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in The U.S.

by Geraldo Rivera

An account of the Hispanic population?s growth and the changing face of America from world-renowned journalist Geraldo Rivera?now updated with a new Foreword.

Since his infamous confrontation with Bill O?Reilly...

Conventional Idiocy: Why the New America is Sick of Old Politics

by Rick Sanchez

CNN anchor and TV news social media pioneer Rick Sanchez cuts through the bull to fearlessly share what Americans are really thinking.

It's time for the conventional idiots to wake up—because Americans have...

Latino in America

by Soledad O'Brien

The definitive tie-in to one of the most heavily anticipated CNN documentaries ever, Latino in America, from top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien. Top CNN anchor and special correspondent...

The Great Progression: How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity

by Geraldo Rivera

In this prophetic and profoundly hopeful book, Peabody and Emmy(r) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera details the myriad ways Hispanics will help revitalize our declining economy, energize our distressed...

Right to DREAM: Immigration Reform and America's Future

by William A. Schwab

Right to DREAM makes a compelling argument for the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform.

Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture

by John M. Parrish, Margaret S. Hrezo & Paul Cantor

These essays showcase the value of the narrative arts in investigating complex conflicts of value in moral and political life, and explore the philosophical problem of moral dilemmas as expressed in ancient...

Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America: Promise and Resistance

by Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti-Crocker & Shawn Schulenberg

This volume sheds light on regional, national, and individual-level factors that have led to major developments for same-sex relationship equality in Latin America and explores institutional, political, and...

The Post-Racial Society is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation State

by Wilbur C. Rich

In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich's The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this...

From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process: How NGOs Cleaned Up the Global Diamond Industry

by Franziska Bieri

Despite its importance in international affairs, the Kimberley Process remains understudied in academia. Franziska Bieri's book provides the first comprehensive account of the Kimberley Process and is the first...

Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance

by Melissa Haussman & Marian Sawer

Until recently, few gender scholars took notice of the impact of state architecture on women's representation, political opportunities, and policy achievements. Likewise scholars of federalism, devolution and...

Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution

by Jeb Bush & Clint Bolick

The immigration debate has challenged our nation since its founding. But today, it divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Here at last is...

Meditations of a Militant Moderate: Cool Views on Hot Topics

by Peter H. Schuck

Vital center. Radical middle. Amid the red state/blue state divide, is there now space for an iconoclastic militant moderate? In this unusual and remarkably readable collection of short essays on a wide variety...

Chavez's Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America

by Manuel Anselmi

The aim of this book is to reconstruct and understand the revolutionary Bolivarian ideology in Chavez's movement through a historical analysis of its ideological principles and revolutionary scholastic institutions....

Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy

by John Wood

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books

What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask...

Politics of Memory: Military Commemoralization and National Identity in Israel

by Udi Lebel

This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to 'hug,' honor and commemorate 'Her Fallen' and 'Her Bereaved Families,' whilst simultaneously...

In Other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western...

New Makers of Modern Culture

by Wintle Justin

New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely...