Political Science:

The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >

The New York Review Abroad
Fifty Years of International Reportage
Edited by Robert B. Silvers
Introduction by Ian Buruma

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $30.00

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness accounts. The New York Review Abroad not only brings together twenty-eight of the most riveting of these pieces but includes... Read more >

The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.00

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >

The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $12.99

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >

The Joy of Hate
How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Written by Greg Gutfeld
Read by Steve Kramer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $20.00

From the irreverent star of Fox News’s Red Eye and The Five, hilarious observations on the manufactured outrage of an oversensitive, wussified culture.

Greg Gutfeld hates artificial tolerance. At the root of every single major political conflict is the annoying coddling Americans must endure of these harebrained liberal hypocrisies. In fact, most... Read more >

Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb
Edited by Janice Gross Stein

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $14.99

Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks.

Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape... Read more >

Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Essays in Honour of Ambassador Allan Gotlieb
Edited by Janice Gross Stein

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $27.95

Edited by Canada's premiere commentator on global affairs, this must-read for political junkies will show the quailty of M&S's new Signal imprint: for everyone who wants to be well informed about international relations and the nature of the diplomacy in the age of Wikileaks.

Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape... Read more >

Beyond Bin Laden
America and the Future of Terror
Written by James A. Baker III, Karen Hughes, Richard N. Haass and Bing West
Edited by Jon Meacham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $3.99

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a... Read more >

Beyond Bin Laden
America and the Future of Terror
Written by James A. Baker III, Karen Hughes, Richard N. Haass and Bing West
Edited by Jon Meacham

Format: eBook, 75 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2011
Price: $1.99

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in American history—an enemy who brought the United States what President George W. Bush called “a day of fire,” and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a... Read more >

You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You

Written by Molly Ivins

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2010
Price: $9.99

In her long-awaited new collection, the Colt Peacekeeper of American political
humor draws a bead on targets that range from the Libido-in-Chief to Newt
Gingrich, campaign funny-money to the legislative lunacy of her native Texas--and
hits a bull's-eye every time.

Whether she's writing about Bill Clinton ("The Rodney Dangerfield of
presidents"), Bob Dole ("Dole contributed perhaps... Read more >

Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home
A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
Written by Kim Chernin

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $14.95

The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtful collection of essays, Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has left... Read more >

Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Written by Gore Vidal

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $17.00

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >

Pugetopolis
A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice
Written by Knute Berger

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $18.95

Knute "Skip" Berger is one of the most recognized commentators on politics, culture, business, and life in the Pacific Northwest. He’s the Mike Royko/Jimmy Breslin of this part of the country. As Timothy Egan describes him in the Foreword to Pugetopolis, he is the region’s "crank with a conscience…a contrarian" thinker... Read more >

Pugetopolis
A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice
Written by Knute Berger

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $18.95

Knute "Skip" Berger is one of the most recognized commentators on politics, culture, business, and life in the Pacific Northwest. He’s the Mike Royko/Jimmy Breslin of this part of the country. As Timothy Egan describes him in the Foreword to Pugetopolis, he is the region’s "crank with a conscience…a contrarian" thinker... Read more >

Hurricane Katrina
Response and Responsibilities, Second Edition
Edited by John Brown Childs

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $10.00

The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They are a second volley following the immediate journalism, and suggest the kind of dialogue, critical analysis and hopeful spirit that will be necessary in the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. All essays were... Read more >

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

Written by Gore Vidal
Edited by Jay Parini

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $13.99

Gore Vidal—novelist, playwright, critic, screenwriter, memoirist, indefatigable political commentator, and controversialist—is America's premier man of letters. No other living writer brings more sparkling wit, vast learning, indelible personality, and provocative mirth to the job of writing an essay.This long-needed volume comprises some twenty-four of his best-loved pieces of criticism, political commentary... Read more >

Virginity or Death!
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Written by Katha Pollitt

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99

“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion

Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has... Read more >

Virginity or Death!
And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
Written by Katha Pollitt

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $13.95

“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion

Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has... Read more >

Light and Liberty
Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Edited by Eric Petersen

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $13.00

Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published works to fashion... Read more >

Abu Ghraib
The Politics of Torture
Contribution by David Levi Strauss, Barbara Ehrenreich and Mark Danner
Compiled by North Atlantic Books

Format: Trade Paperback, 152 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2004
Price: $9.95

Abu Ghraib unveiled a lengthy list of disastrous actions and cover-ups by the Bush administration and the American military. Abu Ghraib examines the problem from many different perspectives, gathering together timely essays on the prison scandal from prominent progressive writers. Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the story through the lens of feminism... Read more >

The Political Emerson
Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by David M. Robinson

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2004
Price: $16.00

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. As a result, political questions grew in importance for him, becoming by the 1860s one of his chief concerns as a public intellectual. In The... Read more >

Light and Liberty
Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Edited by Eric Petersen

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2004
Price: $9.99

Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published works to fashion... Read more >