New Political Science Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | March 7 2024 | General

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Political Science courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

Means of Control
How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
978-0-593-44322-4

A sweeping exposé of the U.S. government’s alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it.

$32.00 US
Feb 27, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Crown

The Politics of Fear
The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
978-0-593-46706-0

From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans.

$19.00 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage

Soldiers and Kings
Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
978-0-593-29858-9

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access.

$32.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Viking

The New Fire
War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
978-0-262-54848-9

As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent—or more fascinating—than how we harness this technology and for what purpose.

$27.95 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
344 Pages
The MIT Press

Solidarity
The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
978-0-593-70124-9

From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity—not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change.

$30.00 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
432 Pages
Pantheon

The Return of Great Powers
Russia, China, and the Next World War
978-0-593-47413-6

The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe.

$30.00 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
368 Pages
Dutton

Exurbia Now
The Battleground of American Democracy
978-1-68589-089-6

Combining interviews, research, and anecdote—and anchored in personal experience—Exurbia Now  delivers a powerful ballad on the state of small-town America, and  provides a sense of the fight for democracy, on the ground, in the heartland.

$28.99 US
Apr 02, 2024
Hardcover
288 Pages
Melville House

The Price is Wrong
Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
978-1-80429-230-3

We cannot expect markets and the private sector to solve the climate crisis while the profits that are their lifeblood remain unappetizing. But there is an alternative to providing surrogate green profits through subsidies: to take energy out of the private sector’s hands.

$29.95 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
432 Pages
Verso