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  • Partisan Nation

    The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era

    by Paul Pierson, Eric Schickler ...
    A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch between our Constitution and today's nationalized, partisan politics.The ground beneath American political institutions has moved, with national politics subsuming and transforming the local. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.In this paradigm-shifting book, political scientists Paul Pierson ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Silverado Press Presents: Western Stories by Today's Top Writers

    by Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Rod Miller, Nik James, Mary Fan, Steve Hockensmith, Vonn McKee, Sharon Frame Gay, Del Howison, Cheryl Pierson, Paul Kupperberg, Lisa Majewski, Richard Prosch, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Aaron Rosenberg, James Reasoner, L.J. Washburn, Gord Rollo ...
    Saddle up and ride down the trails of western history with this outstanding new short-story anthology from Silverado Press! Our all-star posse of acclaimed western writers and fresh new voices have each taken a real historical event and built a story around it. From the 1812 earthquake in southern California to the 1856 sinking of the steamboat Arabia to the 1877 Texas Salt War, these tales are ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Let them Eat Tweets

    How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Take Courage

    Essays in Honor of Harold L. Senkbeil

    Edited by Timothy J. Pauls, Mark A. Pierson ...
    Take Courage is a collection of essays, written by pastors and professors, about the care and cure of souls in the 21st century. As spiritual physicians, pastors are called to diagnose and treat all those suffering with the disease of sin. This noble task requires much from these undershepherds who are placed over Christ's flock. Yet the Good Shepherd himself has provided the effective tools of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • European Social Policy

    Between Fragmentation and Integration

    Edited by Stephan Leibfried, Paul Pierson ...
    As the European Union grows and matures, its movement toward a single market has been the primary focus of attention. However, other policy areas have been greatly affected by the process of European integration. This volume deals with the development of social policy in the EU. The authors examine the substance of particular policies, such as industrial relations, immigration, agriculture, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Optic Antics

    The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

    Edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur ...
    Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Optic Antics

    The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

    Edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, Paul Arthur ...
    Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The American Political Economy

    Politics, Markets, and Power

    Edited by Jacob S. Hacker, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Paul Pierson, Kathleen Thelen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in the United States, focusing on three key factors: uniquely fragmented and decentralized political institutions; an interest group landscape ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Transformation of American Politics

    Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism

    Edited by Paul Pierson, Theda Skocpol ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government. Leading young scholars take up these issues in The Transformation of American Politics. Arguing that even conservative ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

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    Winner-Take-All Politics

    How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    Narrated by John Allen Nelson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 42 min

    We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have fallen behind. Why do the "have-it-alls" have so much more? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook