Social science

Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the Heart of Governance

by Barry Knight & Rajesh Tandon

The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This has enormous importance...

Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

by Nabeel Hamdi

What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument...

Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges

by Herbert Girardet

'The combined analysis presented here of why current arrangements are failing the future and clear insights of the way to go, offer us hope.' Mary Robinson, President of Realising Rights, Ethical Globalisation...

The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe

by Colin Mason

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization....

The New Accountability: Environmental Responsibility Across Borders

by Michael Mason

The growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to...

The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century

by George Martine, Gordon McGranahan & Mark Montgomery

The world?s developing countries will be experiencing massive increases in their urban populations over the 21st century. If managed intelligently and humanely, this growth can pave the way to sustainable development;...

Steven Petrow's Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners

by Steven Petrow & Sally Chew

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

by Robert David Steele & Howard Bloom

What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence...

Storming the State House: The Campaign That Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule

by Mike Hubbard

Storming the State House provides a revealing, behind-the-scenes look into the campaign that elected Alabama's first Republican legislature in modern history and liberated the state from 136 years of Democrat...

I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives

by Yuval Taylor & Charles Johnson

Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most...

California: A History

by Kevin Starr

California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the Golden State’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweep of California’s...

Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush

by Thomas E. Jr Woods & Kevin R. C. Gutzman

“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

—Thomas Jefferson

The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation...

Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

by Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill & Robert M. Danin

Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading experts-CFR's...

The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power

by James Mann

The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policy—with a new afterword for his second term

When Barack Obama first took office, he brought...

Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History

by Glen Browder

America seems to have little sense of how the Civil Rights Movement actually played into southern politics over the remainder of the twentieth Century. The common vision is a monolithic struggle between heroes...

The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History

by Glen Browder

The South's New Racial Politics presents an original thesis about how blacks and whites in today's South engage in a politics that is qualitatively different from the past. Glen Browder-as practitioner and scholar-argues...

Going Public

by Michael Gecan

A New York city neighborhood once called “the beginning of the end of civilization” is where Michael Gecan starts. Hired by residents to help them save their community, he and local leaders spend more than...

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

by Antjie Krog

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the...

The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy

by William J. Dobson

In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible...

A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith

by M. Zuhdi Jasser

Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every...