Politics and Current Events Sale

Encounters with Syrian Refugees

Olivier Kugler

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“A kaleidoscopic odyssey for the era of displaced persons and disintegrating nations, this collection of dispatches from the Syrian refugee community is a fine example of humanistic journalism.”
—Publishers Weekly

How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)

Sharon E. Jarvis, and Soo-Hye Han

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“Why are reporters constantly tempted to predict—or even to declare—election results before people even vote? In this fascinating book, Jarvis and Han identify a growing attitude of dismissiveness that echoes academic research on easily manipulated citizens and reinforces the public’s cynicism about democracy. They show that this condescension has serious consequences. The authors’ analytical rigor is matched by their respect and concern for everyday people: a rare and worthy combination.”
—Peter Levine, author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

Technological and Rhetorical Paradox

Ian E. J. Hill

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“This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits ‘technological rhetoric’ as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne’s Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as science and technology studies, his longitudinal study of ‘machine rhetoric’ warrants attention both for the cases examined—from Malthus to the Unabomber—and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields.”
—David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action

Thomas W. Benson

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“Thomas Benson has rediscovered and shared a treasure of poster art, along with some history, brilliantly told.” —Tom Hayden

An Oral History

Edited by Brian Lockman and Francine Schertzer, Introduction by G. Terry Madonna, and Shanin Specter

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“A remarkable book about an incredible public figure whose work benefited Pennsylvanians more than anyone other than Ben Franklin. From Kansas to Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., [the editors] chronicle the triumphs and failures of Arlen Specter in a way that gives the reader insight into who he was.”
—Edward G. Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia and governor of Pennsylvania

Robert Asen

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“Asen gets into the public debate on education down at the level where real decisions are made about local curricula, funding formulas, and more. We learn how the politics of ‘holding schools accountable’ plays out in local politics and how that relates to, but also distinguishes itself from, national policy debates.” —John W. Gastil, Pennsylvania State University

Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere

Damien Smith Pfister

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“Pfister’s book offers important lessons for scholars in rhetoric, deliberation, and technology studies, as well as anyone interested in learning how the blogosphere has produced a powerful connection between deliberation in public squares and personal computer keyboards.” —Robert Asen, University of Wisconsin–Madison

FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign

Mary E. Stuckey

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“Stuckey brings important perspective to the first reelection campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt and persuasively argues for 1936 as the point at which the nation transitioned from the electoral politics born of Martin Van Buren’s genius to the modern campaigns of today. . . . Beyond the interesting story of the campaign itself, this is an important book for understanding the evolution of modern presidential politics.”
—Andrew H. Sidman, Political Science Quarterly

Identity, Community, Otherness

Edited by E. Johanna Hartelius

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“A scholarly work that is as fresh and relevant as today’s headlines, The Rhetorics of US Immigration helps us understand the depths, implications, and nuances of the immigration debate. It will be valuable for scholars and policy makers alike.”—Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin

Shanksville, America, and Flight 93

J. William Thompson

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“Thompson describes how heroic columns and figures for the final Memorial Plaza were rejected in favor of abstract minimalism, providing insight into human psychology, public controversy, theory of memory, the role of media, and national politics. Should be widely read by the public, scholars, and professionals for its scholarship and sensitive insights into a current issue. Summing Up: Essential.”
—B. Osborne, Choice

Budget Policy and American Politics; Revised and Updated Edition

Dennis S. Ippolito

$34.95 $24.47 (30% off!)

“Ippolito’s analysis of the budget process is an important contribution to the literature on the American budget process. It is unquestionably one of the best books on the subject, similar in scope to Aaron Wildavsky’s classic The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1988). Overall, Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics is an excellent historical account of the federal budget process, and it is intended for a general adult reading audience.”
—Patrick Fisher, Perspectives on Political Science, on the first edition

Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror

Louis Betty

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“A superb book that shows how Houellebecq—like Nietzsche before him—is the best diagnostician and therapist for the deepest ills that beset our culture. Another ‘canary in the mineshaft’, he ‘sees the end in everything’, and drags us—kicking and screaming—to face intelligently the social priorities we have been induced to commit to.”
—Patrick Madigan, Heythrop Journal

A Genealogy

Jeremy Engels

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“Provocative in its understanding of democracy, compelling in its case studies of Richard Nixon and Sarah Palin, and challenging in its call for reinvigorated rhetorical criticism, this is a book that makes us think.”—David Zarefsky, former president of the National Communication Association and of the Rhetoric Society of America

The Russian Radical

Chris Matthew Sciabarra

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“Brilliant and pathbreaking. . . . Much more could be written in praise and in critique of Russian Radical because it is one of those rare books from which a reader raises her head every few pages and wonders, “Do I agree?” These are the books in life that make a wonderful intellectual difference because they inspire thought on a fundamental level.”
—Wendy McElroy, The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion

Kathleen R. Arnold

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“Kathleen Arnold has written a fascinating account of the ‘undecidable’ status of Mexican immigrants in the United States, as well as factory workers (the ‘maquiladoras’) who work along the U.S./Mexico border.”—James Martel, San Francisco State University

Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age

Kathleen R. Arnold

$30.95 $21.67 (30% off!)

“Arnold gives a compelling account of the contradictions and strange paradoxes of contemporary politics and unmasks the brutal forms of power concealed by the modern state that have intensified poverty, exploitation, dehumanization, racism, and sexism.”—William W. Sokoloff, Theory and Event

Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism

Chris Matthew Sciabarra

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“Total Freedom offers a convincing demonstration of how crucial a role dialectics has played in the work of many of our greatest philosophers. No one interested in dialectics—or in the problems of change and interaction on which it centers—can afford to miss Sciabarra’s scholarly and surprisingly lucid history of dialectical thinking.”
—Bertell Ollman, Author of Alienation and Dialectical Investigations