Random House New Releases - Political Science - Public Policy

Newton's Football by Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's Game
Written by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

Hardcover, 256 pages | Ballantine Books | Sports & Recreation - Football; Science - Physics; Political Science - Public Policy | $26.00 | 978-0-345-54514-5 (0-345-54514-1)

Newton's Football by Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's Game
Written by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

eBook, 256 pages | Ballantine Books | Sports & Recreation - Football; Science - Physics; Political Science - Public Policy | $12.99 | 978-0-345-54515-2 (0-345-54515-X)

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Seven Stories Press | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Comics & Graphic Novels - Nonfiction; Comics & Graphic Novels | $16.95 | 978-1-60980-511-1 (1-60980-511-9)

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

2013-09-17T00:30:00-05:00

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

eBook, 160 pages | Seven Stories Press | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Comics & Graphic Novels - Anthologies; Comics & Graphic Novels | $16.95 | 978-1-60980-512-8 (1-60980-512-7)

The Oil Road by Mika Minio-Paluello

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

The Oil Road Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
Written by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

Trade Paperback, 380 pages | Verso | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Travel - Europe | $19.95 | 978-1-78168-128-2 (1-78168-128-7)

From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics, profit and humanity. From the revolutionary futurism of 1920s Baku to the unblinking capitalism of modern London, this book reveals the relentless drive to control fossil fuels. Harrowing, powerful and insightful, The Oil Road maps the true cost of oil.

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

Trade Paperback, 176 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $12.00 | 978-0-345-80647-5 (0-345-80647-6)

A VINTAGE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Just 10,000 years ago, there were only one million humans on Earth.
By 1800, just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion of us.
By 1960, there were three billion.

There are now over seven billion of us.

By 2050, there will be at least nine billion other people—and, sometime near the end of this century, there will be at least ten billion of us.

There is simply no known way to provide this many people with clothes, food, and fresh water. And any action we take to address these issues will turn up the thermostat on global warming.

Stephen Emmott has dedicated his career to researching the effects of humans on the Earth’s natural systems. This is his call to arms, an urgent plea to re-imagine the interconnected web of our global problems in a new light.

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

2013-09-10T00:30:00-05:00

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

eBook, 128 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science - Global Warming & Climate Change | $9.99 | 978-0-345-80646-8 (0-345-80646-8)

For Discrimination by Randall Kennedy

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Written by Randall Kennedy

Hardcover, 304 pages | Pantheon | Political Science - Public Policy; Political Science - Social Policy; Social Science - African-American Studies | $25.95 | 978-0-307-90737-0 (0-307-90737-6)

By the author of the New York Times best seller Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word and, more recently, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency ("Provocative and richly insightful." —Brent Staples, The New York Times Book Review; "Excellent."—David Remnick, The New Yorker)

The definitive reckoning with one of the most explosively contentious and sharply divisive issues in American society, a book extraordinary for its cool reason and genuine fairness—at once a recollection of the little-known history of affirmative action and an anatomy of its pros and cons.

For Discrimination by Randall Kennedy

2013-09-03T00:30:00-05:00

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Written by Randall Kennedy

eBook, 304 pages | Pantheon | Political Science - Public Policy; Political Science - Social Policy; Social Science - African-American Studies | $13.99 | 978-0-307-90738-7 (0-307-90738-4)

Integrated Activism by Alexis Zeigler

2013-08-13T00:30:00-05:00

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and and Social Progress
Written by Alexis Zeigler

Trade Paperback, 280 pages | EVOLVER EDITIONS | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Political Science - Public Policy - Cultural Policy | $18.95 | 978-1-58394-604-6 (1-58394-604-7)

How do peak oil, climate change, and the limits of growth affect abortion rights, income equality, and civil liberty? In this impassioned treatise, author and activist Alexis Zeigler reveals the hidden connections between ecology, economics, politics, and social justice—and shows us how to use these connections to effect real, long-lasting change.

Most activist movements, says Zeigler, suffer from a kind of tunnel vision in which the true causes and resulting side effects of the desired change are left unexamined—rendering the movements shortsighted and unaware of their own long-term fallout. We cannot effectively address our problems in isolation or with ecological blinders on. Instead we must integrate our activism and ensure that all strategies and actions take into account the historically demonstrated fact that a society’s environmental resources ultimately define its level of freedom, fairness, and financial equity.

Packed with surprising facts and eye-opening arguments, Integrated Activism is a must-read not only for every serious activist, but also for anyone looking for a solid, creditable philosophy and approach to building a fairer, freer, more sustainable future.

Integrated Activism by Alexis Zeigler

2013-08-13T00:30:00-05:00

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Social Progress
Written by Alexis Zeigler

eBook, 280 pages | North Atlantic Books | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy; Business & Economics - Environmental Economics; Political Science - Public Policy - Cultural Policy | $14.95 | 978-1-58394-619-0 (1-58394-619-5)

Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell

2013-07-09T00:30:00-05:00

Carbon Democracy Political Power in the Age of Oil
Written by Timothy Mitchell

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Verso | Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $19.95 | 978-1-78168-116-9 (1-78168-116-3)

Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell targets conventional wisdom regarding energy and governance. Emphasizing how oil and democracy have intermixed, he argues that while coal provided the impetus for mass democracy, the shift to oil drastically limited democratic possibility; above all, the ability to confront contemporary ecological crises.

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Laray Polk

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Seven Stories Press | History - Military - Nuclear Warfare; Science - Environmental Science; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $13.95 | 978-1-60980-454-1 (1-60980-454-6)

“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.

While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration.

On the subject of current nuclear tensions, Chomsky revisits the long-established option of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East, a proposal set in motion through a joint Egyptian Iranian General Assembly resolution in 1974.

Intended as a warning, Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is also a reminder that talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit.

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Laray Polk

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

eBook | Seven Stories Press | History - Military - Nuclear Warfare; Science - Environmental Science; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $13.95 | 978-1-60980-455-8 (1-60980-455-4)

A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Jefferson Chase

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

Hardcover, 256 pages | Melville House | History - Military - Nuclear Warfare; Political Science - International Relations; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $26.00 | 978-1-61219-173-7 (1-61219-173-8)

In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe

Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating account of history’s most irresponsible uses of nuclear technology. From the rarely-discussed nightmare of “Broken Arrows” (40 nuclear weapons lost during the Cold War) to “Operation Plowshare” (a proposal to use nuclear bombs for large engineering projects, such as a the construction of a second Panama Canal using 300 H-Bombs), Herzog focuses in on long-forgotten nuclear projects that nearly led to disaster.

In an unprecedented people’s history, Herzog digs deep into archives, interviews nuclear scientists, and collects dozens of rare photos. He explores the “accidental” drop of a Nagasaki-type bomb on a train conductor’s home, the implanting of plutonium into patients’ hearts, and the invention of wild tactical nukes, including weapons designed to kill enemy astronauts.

Told in a riveting narrative voice, Herzog—the son of filmmaker Werner Herzog—also draws on childhood memories of the final period of the Cold War in Germany, the country once seen as the nuclear battleground for NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries, and discusses evidence that Nazi scientists knew how to make atomic weaponry . . . and chose not to.

A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Jefferson Chase

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

eBook | Melville House | History - Military - Nuclear Warfare; Political Science - International Relations; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $26.00 | 978-1-61219-174-4 (1-61219-174-6)

The Approaching Great Transformation by Helena Norberg-Hodge

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Seven Stories Press | Technology & Engineering - Power Resources - Fossil Fuels; Technology & Engineering - Power Resources - Alternative & Renewable; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $18.95 | 978-1-60980-480-0 (1-60980-480-5)

"A brave book by a smart person with a masterful command of economic theory."—Publisher's Weekly

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities already at work on the transition: energy descent pioneers in the UK and the US educating their communities about the road ahead, small enterprises defying traditional “profit” in favor of permanence and sustainability, and cities preparing for a post carbon future.

Highlighting the work of thinkers like John Ruskin and E. F. Schumacher, Magnuson here builds on his previous book, Mindful Economics.

The Approaching Great Transformation by Helena Norberg-Hodge

2013-04-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

eBook, 256 pages | Seven Stories Press | Technology & Engineering - Power Resources - Fossil Fuels; Technology & Engineering - Power Resources - Alternative & Renewable; Political Science - Public Policy - Environmental Policy | $18.95 | 978-1-60980-481-7 (1-60980-481-3)

How should we act and think economically in the world as the era of cheap oil comes to an end? The Approaching Great Transformation begins to answer this massive question, focusing on the people and communities already at work on the transition: energy descent pioneers in the UK and the US educating their communities about the road ahead, small enterprises defying traditional “profit” in favor of permanence and sustainability, and cities preparing for a post carbon future.

Highlighting the work of thinkers like John Ruskin and E. F. Schumacher, Magnuson here builds on his previous book, Mindful Economics.

Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett

2012-09-04T00:30:00-05:00

Blue Revolution Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Written by Cynthia Barnett

Trade Paperback, 296 pages | Beacon Press | Nature - Natural Resources; Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection; Political Science - Public Policy | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-0328-2 (0-8070-0328-X)

Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don’t realize these freshwater sources are in deep trouble.

Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis—driven not as much by lawn sprinklers as by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. But the book also offers much reason for hope. Award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett argues that the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. Just as the green movement helped build awareness about energy and sustainability, so a blue movement will reconnect Americans to their water, helping us value and conserve our most life-giving resource. Avoiding past mistakes, living within our water means, and turning to “local water” as we do local foods are all part of this new, blue revolution.

Reporting from across the country and around the globe, Barnett shows how people, businesses, and governments have come together to dramatically reduce water use and reverse the water crisis. Entire metro areas, such as San Antonio, Texas, have halved per capita water use. Singapore’s “closed water loop” recycles every drop. New technologies can slash agricultural irrigation in half: businesses can save a lot of water—and a lot of money—with designs as simple as recycling air-conditioning condensate.

The first book to call for a national water ethic, Blue Revolution is also a powerful meditation on water and community in America.

Better Than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson

2012-08-15T00:30:00-05:00

Better Than Sex
Written by Hunter S. Thompson

eBook, 272 pages | Ballantine Books | Political Science - Public Policy; Political Science - State & Local Government; Political Science - Political Parties | $12.99 | 978-0-307-82663-3 (0-307-82663-5)

"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in his truly inimitable, just-short-of-libel style. In Better than Sex, Thompson hits the dusty trail again--without leaving home--yet manages to deliver a mind-bending view of the 1992 presidential campaign--in all of its horror, sacrifice, lust, and dubious glory. Complete with faxes sent to and received by candidate Clinton's top aides, and 100 percent pure gonzo screeds on Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Oliver North, here is the most true-blue campaign tell-all ever penned by man or beast.
"[Thompson] delivers yet another of his trademark cocktail mixes of unbelievable tales and dark observations about the sausage grind that is the U.S. presidential sweepstakes. Packed with egocentric anecdotes, musings and reprints of memos, faxes and scrawled handwritten notes (Memorable."
--Los Angeles Daily News
"What endears Hunter Thompson to anyone who reads him is that he will say what others are afraid to (.[He] is a master at the unlikely but invariably telling line that sums up a political figure (.In a year when all politics is--to much of the public--a tendentious and pompous bore, it is time to read Hunter Thompson."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"While Tom Wolfe mastered the technique of being a fly on the wall, Thompson mastered the art of being a fly in the ointment. He made himself a part of every story, made no apologies for it and thus produced far more honest reporting than any crusading member of the Fourth Estate (. Thompson isn't afraid to take the hard medicine, nor is he bashful about dishing it out (.He is still king of beasts, and his apocalyptic prophecies seldom miss their target."
--Tulsa World
"This is a very, very funny book. No one can ever match Thompson in the vitriol department, and virtually nobody escapes his wrath."
--The Flint Journal

Random House New Releases - Political Science - Public Policy

Newton's Football by Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's GameWritten by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

Newton's Football by Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's GameWritten by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to EcocideWritten by Stephanie McMillan

The Minimum Security Chronicles by Stephanie McMillan

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to EcocideWritten by Stephanie McMillan

The Oil Road by Mika Minio-Paluello

The Oil Road Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of LondonWritten by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion Written by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion Written by Stephen Emmott

For Discrimination by Randall Kennedy

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the LawWritten by Randall Kennedy

For Discrimination by Randall Kennedy

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the LawWritten by Randall Kennedy

Integrated Activism by Alexis Zeigler

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and and Social ProgressWritten by Alexis Zeigler

Integrated Activism by Alexis Zeigler

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Social ProgressWritten by Alexis Zeigler

Carbon Democracy by Timothy Mitchell

Carbon Democracy Political Power in the Age of OilWritten by Timothy Mitchell

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Laray Polk

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Laray Polk

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Jefferson Chase

A Short History of Nuclear Folly Written by Rudolph Herzog Translated by Jefferson Chase

A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Jefferson Chase

A Short History of Nuclear Folly Written by Rudolph Herzog Translated by Jefferson Chase

The Approaching Great Transformation by Helena Norberg-Hodge

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon EconomyWritten by Joel Magnuson Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

The Approaching Great Transformation by Helena Norberg-Hodge

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon EconomyWritten by Joel Magnuson Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Blue Revolution by Cynthia Barnett

Blue Revolution Unmaking America's Water CrisisWritten by Cynthia Barnett

Better Than Sex by Hunter S. Thompson

Better Than Sex Written by Hunter S. Thompson

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's Game
Written by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

Newton's Football The Science Behind America's Game
Written by Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez, PH.D.

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

The Minimum Security Chronicles Resistance to Ecocide
Written by Stephanie McMillan

The Oil Road Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
Written by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

Ten Billion
Written by Stephen Emmott

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Written by Randall Kennedy

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Written by Randall Kennedy

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and and Social Progress
Written by Alexis Zeigler

Integrated Activism Applying the Hidden Connections between Ecology, Economics, Politics, and Social Progress
Written by Alexis Zeigler

Carbon Democracy Political Power in the Age of Oil
Written by Timothy Mitchell

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
Written by Noam Chomksy and Laray Polk

A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Written by Rudolph Herzog
Translated by Jefferson Chase

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

The Approaching Great Transformation Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy
Written by Joel Magnuson
Foreword by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Blue Revolution Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Written by Cynthia Barnett

Better Than Sex
Written by Hunter S. Thompson