Politics and Government

Emerging Africa> describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countrie...

In Challenging Pregnancy, Genevieve Grabman recounts being pregnant with identical twins whose circulatory systems were connected in a rare conditi...

'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. The words fire off the page with humour, anger and eloquence' GuardianA power...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former congressman and prosecutor Trey Gowdy teaches you how to effectively communicate and persuade on the issues th...

Its capitalisms fault. Thats the usual answer, whether its climate change, environmental degradation, rising inequalities, poverty, greed, war, or ...

A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysisLet us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspirationgood...

Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management ...

How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adop...

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revol...

How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revol...

A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at th...

James ''Dongaree'' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff''s shipyard, was one of hundreds of ''rotten Prods'', and thousands of Catholics, driv...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is among the most enigmatic, charismatic, deeply revered and equally reviled figures of the twentieth century. His Autob...

David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations a...

Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activ...

If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possib...