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. 

How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
9780593443224

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 Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
9780593467060

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

Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
9780593298589

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

War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
9780262548489

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

The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
9780593701249

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

Russia, China, and the Next World War
9780593474136

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

The Battleground of American Democracy
9781685890896

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

Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
9781804292303

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