Political Science
TEN LESSONS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Written by Zakaria, Fareed
Lenin once said, There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic consequences that may take years to unfold.
TYRANNY OF MERIT: WHAT'S BECOME OF THE COMMON GOOD?
Written by Sandel, Michael J
A Times Literary Supplement's Book of the Year 2020A New Statesman's Best Book of 2020A Bloomberg's Best Book of 2020A Guardian Best Book About Ideas of 2020
DONALD TRUMP V. THE UNITED STATES: INSIDE THE STRUGGLE TO STOP A PRESIDENT
Written by Schmidt, Michael S
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him. "A meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author's extraordinary access . . .
HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
Written by Odell, Jenny
** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public Library - The Brooklyn Public Library
IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE: THOMAS JEFFERSON ON EQUALITY, FAITH, FREEDOM, COMPROMISE, AND THE ART OF CITIZENSHIP
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country's founding principles are still so important today. Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people
AMERICAN CRISIS: LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Written by Cuomo, Andrew
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward.
MEDIOCRE: THE DANGEROUS LEGACY OF WHITE MALE AMERICA
Written by Oluo, Ijeoma
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an "illuminating" (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power?
ECONOMISTS' HOUR: FALSE PROPHETS, FREE MARKETS, AND THE FRACTURE OF SOCIETY
Written by Appelbaum, Binyamin
In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s, American politicians paid little attention to economists.
NIGHT THOUGHTS
Written by Shawn, Wallace
In a gloomy hotel room, after reading compulsively about murders, Shawn tries to sleep but is troubled by meandering thoughts and memories that follow one another in an apparently random chain. Ultimately a point of view begins to emerge. In a world dominated by privileged killers, how should we live? What world do we want?
CONSEQUENCES OF CAPITALISM: MANUFACTURING DISCONTENT AND RESISTANCE
Written by Waterstone, Marv
Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.'
New Arrivals
