Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

Political Science eBooks

If you like Political Science eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 112208 Results
Skip side bar filters
  • America's Great Debate

    Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a “gripping, vigorous [history] featuring a large cast of unforgettable characters with fierce beliefs” (Publishers Weekly, starred Review).When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the US Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

    The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Banned Book Club

    Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko ...
    A Junior Library Guild Selection"Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review"Sure to inspire today’s youthful generation of tenacious changemakers." — BOOKLIST, Starred Review"The messages of hope are universal." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review"A timely read about friendship amid chaos." — NPR<... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Seat at the Table

    Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters

    The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mitch, Please!

    How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky (and America, Too)

    The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller about how Mitch McConnell has been bad for Kentucky—and why he needs to be voted out of office from the founder of Kentucky Sports Radio and attorney Matt Jones.They say all politics is local. In 2020, Mitch McConnell will have served five full terms as a US Senator. Thirty years. The Senate Majority leader’s power is as undeniable as it is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Blowing up Russia

    The Book that Got Litvinenko Murdered

    Alexander Litvinenko wrote Blowing up Russia to reveal in gripping detail how his FSB colleagues in the Russian secret service started an unprecedented 'Islamist' bombing campaign of apartment buildings in Moscow as part the first election campaign of Vladimir Putin. MI6 judged this whistleblowing book to be the reason for his assassination with Polonium-210 in London in 2006. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resistance

    A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

    by Tori Amos ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Epic Mexico

    A History from Its Earliest Times

    Spanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engaging. The book’s story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of its perhaps more dangerous modern counterpart, the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec and the Aztec ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Spies

    The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

    “This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kim Philby

    A story of friendship and betrayal

    by Tim Milne ...
    Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence. Philby joined Britain's secret service MI6 during the war and went on to head the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies before becoming the service's chief liaison officer with the CIA. He betrayed hundreds of British and US agents to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Illuminati Paradigm Shift

    The Illuminati Series, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Illuminati Series
    What is the nature of the New Order proposed by the Pythagorean Illuminati, the world's most controversial secret society?The Illuminati advocate the replacement of democracy by meritocracy, the abolition of all monarchies, dynastic families and privileged elites.How can the corrupt reign of the Old World Order finally be brought to an end? The Illuminati have proposed the most radical and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Presidential Leadership in Political Time

    Reprise and Reappraisal

    In this expanded third edition, renowned scholar Stephen Skowronek, addresses Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Skowronek’s insights have fundamentally altered our understanding of the American presidency. His “political time” thesis has been particularly influential, revealing how presidents reckon with the work of their predecessors, situate their power within recent political events, and assert ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    • Best seller history: 250+ weeks on New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list, including as recently as December 2018.• New 10th anniversary preface: covering events of the past decade; we expect to serialize this.• New York Times columnist: Alexander is now a regular op-ed columnist, writing for the daily paper and the Sunday Review. • Tie-in with YA edition.• New cover· New 10th ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

    The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live.Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Thousand Days

    John F. Kennedy in the White House

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —TimeArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert F. Kennedy

    And the 1968 Indiana Primary

    This account of a dramatic moment, and a classic speech, is “a must-read for anyone interested in presidential politics” (Indiana Magazine of History).On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the state’s Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy prepared to fly from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    “From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly.” —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and moment... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America

    How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders’ oligarchy in the Civil War.This is a story about a dangerous idea—one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Let This Radicalize You

    Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

    What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes examine some of the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Parties?

    A Second Look

    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John H. Aldrich goes beyond the clamor of arguments over whether American political parties are in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Bananas

    How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

    by Peter Chapman ...
    A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.In this compelling history of the United Fruit Company, Financial Times writer Peter Chapman weaves a dramatic tale of big business, deceit, and violence, exploring the origins of arguably one of the most controversial global ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher EducationIn 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Country of Ghosts

    Series series Black Dawn Series
    Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • World War in Syria

    A Global Conflict Waged on Middle Eastern Battlefields

    by A.B. Abrams ...
    World War in Syria answers questions that will have continued relevance beyond the country’s borders for years to come. "Impressive in its scholarship, pondered in its judgements, above all searing in its dissection of Western powers' war on Syria waged over many decades, the book is a must-have on the bookshelves of any serious fair-minded student of Syria." --Peter Ford, British Ambassador to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD