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Political Science

1. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

   Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

   “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from HellMore

2. Statistics

   David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves

   Fourth Edition

   Renowned for its clear prose and no-nonsense emphasis on core concepts, Statistics covers fundamentals using real examples to illustrate the techniques.More

3. Strangers on a Hill: Congress and the Court

   Ross K. Baker

   When Ross K. Baker's House and Senate first appeared in 1989, it became an instant favorite among students and instructors for its engaging and highly accessible description of congressional processes.More

4. Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide

   Shanto Iyengar, Jennifer McGrady

   Media Politics encourages students to examine how the media affect American politics and how politicians influence the media in order get elected, stay in power, and achieve policy goals.More

5. Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy

   Stephen M. Walt

   Finalist for the 2006 Gelber Prize: "A brilliant contribution to the American foreign policy debate."—Anatol Lieven, New York Times Book ReviewMore

6. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

   Ira Katznelson

   A groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.More

7. Analyzing Elections

   Rebecca B. Morton

   Analyzing Elections provides students with the analytical tools for understanding the electoral process and uses those tools to explore an abundance of real-world examples.More

8. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

   John Charles Chasteen

   Second Edition

   Adopted at over 450 colleges and universities in its First Edition, Born in Blood and Fire has quickly become the standard survey history of Latin America.
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9. The Selected Political Writings of John Locke

   John Locke, Paul E. Sigmund

   John Locke’s revolutionary writings created a sea change in political theory and, eventually, in liberal democracy in practice.More

10. Playing Politics

    J.Tobin Grant

    Playing Politics, a rational-choice workbook of sixteen games, is designed to help students understand the logic behind political decision-making, from creating a constitution to formulating foreign policy.More

11. Governing China: From Revolution to Reform

    Kenneth Lieberthal

    Second Edition

    Governing China: From Revolution to Reform, the leading text for courses on Chinese politics has been thoroughly revised and updated.More

12. An Essay on the Principle of Population

    Thomas Robert Malthus, Philip Appleman

    Second Edition

    While millions face hunger, malnutrition, and starvation, the world’s population is increasing by over 225,000 people per day, 80 million per year.More

13. Globalization and Its Discontents

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.More

14. Analyzing Interest Groups: Group Influence on People and Policies

    Scott H. Ainsworth

    Analyzing Interest Groups explores the various contexts in which interest groups operate (from each branch of government to electoral and grassroots politics) and offers a wide range of examples (from the experiences of early farm groups, to the modern experiences of groups like the NAACP, Greenpeace, and the NRA), providing knowledge necessary to analyze these groups.More

15. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed

    Scott Douglas Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz

    Second Edition

    In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, professors Waltz and Sagan resume their well-known dialogue concerning nuclear proliferation and the threat of nuclear war.More