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Political Science Books
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The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 464 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 376,457 ratings — published 1513
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,773 ratings — published 1848
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,591 ratings — published -400
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.70 — 52,023 ratings — published 1651
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 95,122 ratings — published 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,778 ratings — published 2012
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,274 ratings — published 1951
Democracy in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 26,795 ratings — published 1835
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,269 ratings — published 2018
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 171 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,766 ratings — published 1788
The Social Contract (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,604 ratings — published 1762
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,290 ratings — published 2011
Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,319 ratings — published -350
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 42,421 ratings — published 1859
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,909 ratings — published 1996
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,084 ratings — published 1983
Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 127 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.78 — 23,841 ratings — published 1689
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 558,954 ratings — published -500
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,672 ratings — published 1988
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,863 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,715 ratings — published 2007
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,433,213 ratings — published 1945
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,019 ratings — published 2011
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,911 ratings — published 1776
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,321,025 ratings — published 1949
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,487 ratings — published 2012
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 25,639 ratings — published 1944
The End of History and the Last Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.61 — 7,728 ratings — published 1992
World Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,714 ratings — published 2014
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,628 ratings — published 1998
Diplomacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,298 ratings — published 1994
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 113,153 ratings — published 2015
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,617 ratings — published 1776
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,206 ratings — published 2020
Two Treatises of Government (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,490 ratings — published 1689
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,656 ratings — published 2001
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 19,032 ratings — published 2020
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.55 — 81,626 ratings — published 1516
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,084 ratings — published 2018
A Theory of Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,471 ratings — published 1971
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,104 ratings — published 2004
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 66 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,839 ratings — published 2018
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,095 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,989 ratings — published 2010
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,927 ratings — published 2016
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
by (shelved 60 times as political-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,107 ratings — published 2016
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,176 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 262,262 ratings — published 1980
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,504 ratings — published 2018
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as political-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,733 ratings — published 2019
“Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a campus cocktail party (or even to an unsympathetic adminitrator) exactly what it is he or she studies.
"Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth."
"Right, like geologists."
"Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle..."
"So, it's like oceanography or hydrology."
"And the atmosphere."
"Meteorology, climatology..."
"It's broader than just physical geography. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet."
"How is that different from ecology or environmental science?"
"Well, it encompasses them. Aspects of them. But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of--"
"Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci."
"Some geographers specialize in different world regions."
"Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. But I didn't know they were part of the geography department."
"They're not."
(Long pause.)
"So, uh, what is it that do study then?”
―
"Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth."
"Right, like geologists."
"Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle..."
"So, it's like oceanography or hydrology."
"And the atmosphere."
"Meteorology, climatology..."
"It's broader than just physical geography. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet."
"How is that different from ecology or environmental science?"
"Well, it encompasses them. Aspects of them. But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of--"
"Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci."
"Some geographers specialize in different world regions."
"Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. But I didn't know they were part of the geography department."
"They're not."
(Long pause.)
"So, uh, what is it that do study then?”
―
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