Political Science:

A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity

Written by Bill O'Reilly

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $26.00

The year was 1957, the month September, and I had just turned eight years old. Dwight Eisenhower was President, but in my life it was the diminutive, intense Sister Mary Lurana who ruled, at least in the third-grade class where I was held captive. For reasons you will soon understand, my...

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Half the Sky
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $27.95

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia... Read more >

In the President's Secret Service
Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
Written by Ronald Kessler

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $26.00

Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, that elite corps of agents who pledge to take a bullet to protect the president and his family. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author... Read more >

Defend the Realm
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew

Format: Hardcover, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British... Read more >

The Predictioneer's Game
Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
Written by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $27.00

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer... Read more >

The Next 100 Years
A Forecast for the 21st Century
Written by George Friedman

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $25.95

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future—offering a lucid, highly...

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Rules for Radicals

Written by Saul Alinsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 23, 1989
Price: $14.00

The father of modern community organization, Saul Alinsky taught a generation of activists and politicians how to effectively construct social change. In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky writes with passion and intelligence, carefully outlining “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Indispensable since its first publication in... Read more >

The Nine
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Written by Jeffrey Toobin

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $15.95

In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important—and secret—legal body in our country, the Supreme Court, revealing the complex dynamic among the nine people who decide the law of the land. An institution at a moment of transition, the Court now stands at... Read more >

We Are Doomed
Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
Written by John Derbyshire

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $26.00

To his fellow conservatives, John Derbyshire makes a plea: Don't be seduced by this nonsense about "the politics of hope." Skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament. And from Hobbes and Burke through Lord Salisbury and Calvin Coolidge, up to Pat Buchanan... Read more >

Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00

From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.

At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >