Politics and Current Affairs

• Author(s): Ervin Laszlo • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: PhilosophyWe must establish our world order on the principles of human dignity if we want a credible future for humanity....

• Author(s): John Armitage • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: ArtThis collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine ap...

• Author(s): Norrie Macqueen • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceDoes humanitarian intervention 'work'? Could it work better if approached differently? Or should we jus...

• Author(s): Sarah Marusek • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryExploring the rise of Shi'i activism in Lebanon and the broader Middle East, in Faith and Resistance Sarah Marusek offers a timely analysis of th...

• Author(s): R. J. Madon • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • BISAC: Political ScienceAn all-encompassing Marxist assessment of the economics and politics of the Latin American Left from 1990-2015

• Author(s): Mobo Gao • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceFor years now, China's economic and political rise has provoked fear--even paranoia--around the world. But how do we get our information abo...

• Author(s): Alf Gunvald Nilsen • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceMore than seventy years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of I...

• Author(s): Fiona McCormack • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceAs the era of thriving small-scale fishing communities continues to wane, Fiona McCormack opens a window into contemporary fisheries quo...

• Author(s): Peer Illner • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceReductions in state spending have put significant strain on communities during disasters. When hurricanes, floods and earthquakes hit, the r...

• Author(s): Yasser Munif • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceUnderstanding the Syrian revolution is unthinkable without an in-depth analysis from below. Paying attention to the complex activities o...

• Author(s): Robert Ovetz • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Business And EconomicsRumours of the death of the global labour movement have been greatly exaggerated. Rising from the ashes of the old trade union move...

• Author(s): Lawrence Grossberg • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceAre Donald Trump's irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his inc...

• Author(s): Christian Fuchs • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceFrom 'Covfefe' to #FraudNewsCNN and #FakeNews, Donald Trump's tweets have caused an international frenzy. He is a reality TV and Twitter...

• Author(s): Kate O'Riordan • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: ScienceMore than ever before, scientific and technological innovations are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New products developing t...

• Author(s): Gendzier Irene L. • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryToday, US policies towards newly independent states striving for democracy have evolved in a radically different political environment with s...

• Author(s): Gregory Sholette • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: ArtIn the aftermath of the 2016 US election, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of ...

• Author(s): Christopher Caudwell • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • BISAC: Literary CriticismConsidered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanis...

• Author(s): Luke Sinwell • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceOn August 16, 2012, thirty-four black South African mineworkers were shot by police working under the auspices of the African National C...

• Author(s): Paul Routledge • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Social ScienceUnder conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting ...

• Author(s): Nicolas Pons-Vignon • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Business And EconomicsStruggle in a Time of Crisis brings together essays by an array of distinguished global contributors who are devot...

• Author(s): Marcelle C. Dawson • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryContesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Aparthe...

• Author(s): Martin Cohen • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: PhilosophyA revised and expanded edition of this accessible introduction to political philosophy. Very popular with undergraduates.

• Author(s): Chris Paterson • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceWar Reporters Under Threat describes the threat of violence facing war reporters from the United States government and some of its clo...

• Author(s): James Penney • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryIs queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its cour...

• Author(s): Paul Kennedy • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Political ScienceWhich global issues have the most impact on our lives at the beginning of the 21st century? What's the relationship between de...

• Author(s): David Barsamian • Publisher: Pluto • Publisher Imprint: Pluto • BISAC: Political ScienceIn his latest book of interviews, Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and soc...

• Author(s): David Denver • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceThis volume features key political issues for 1990s Britain: the reform of the Labour party; the use of opinion polls; the impact of the med...

• Author(s): Stephan Haggard • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Business And EconomicsIn the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rul...

• Author(s): Sumantra Bose • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThe search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues of inte...

• Author(s): Hanspeter Kriesi • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceDespite Switzerland's small size, its political system is one of the most complex and fascinating amon...

• Author(s): Kieran Williams • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThe Prague Spring of 1968 was among the most important episodes in postwar European politics--one of th...

• Author(s): G. Philip Rightmire • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ScienceThis book provides a wealth of information about individual crania, jaws and postcranial remains of Homo erec...

• Author(s): Zoltan Barany • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Social ScienceThis book is the first attempt by a social scientist to explain the age-old predicament of Gypsies (or Roma)...

• Author(s): Severino (Severino Baraldi) Baraldi • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • BISAC: PhilosophyThis is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies. The essays span and connect topics in the philosop...

• Author(s): Richard Sisson • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: HistoryA decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so ...

• Author(s): Martha A. Ackelsberg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceCombining her own field work and interviews with cutting edge research and theory on democracy and act...

• Author(s): Steven Hill • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceFixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. Steve...

• Author(s): Gary K. Bertsch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceRecent nuclear tests in India and Pakistan make it clear that the US can no longer continue a policy of ben...

• Author(s): Paul R. Brass • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceNow available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of...

• Author(s): Jef Huysmans • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Social ScienceThe act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. W...

• Author(s): Ronald J. Daniels • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy and explores the effec...

• Author(s): Kristina Jonsson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book examines how various globalizing forces have affected Asian societies, discussng the relationshi...

• Author(s): Martin Jones | Rhys Jones | Michael Woods • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceAn Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts wi...

• Author(s): Martin Heidegger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PhilosophyThis revised and expanded edition of Martin Heidegger's Basic Writings includes ten key essays and the Introduction to Being and Time. Basic Wr...

• Author(s): Henriette Walter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Literary CriticismIn this comprehensive introduction, Henriette Walter provides the reader with a panoramic view of the dev...

• Author(s): Elaine Aston • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Performing ArtsAt last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. In ...

• Author(s): John Marenbon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PhilosophyAn introduction to philosophy in the Latin West (1150-1350) combines an historical approach with philosophical analysis of thirteenth and fourteen...

• Author(s): Robert E. Looney • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceInternational trade has, for decades, been central to economic growth and improved standards of living for...

• Author(s): Rich Marino • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThere's no question, compared to the advanced economies China's economic growth rates have been spectacula...

• Author(s): Richard D. Alba • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Social ScienceEthnicity is a central theme of the American experience. In this book, Richard D. Alba examines the changing role of...