Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation.

The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very center. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse.

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.

Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such tradition...

Readers are provided with a practical insight into how to analyze policies and policy-making in the EU. Using case studies to deepen readers' understanding, this book examines the various stages of the policy process - from the moment the issue reaches the agenda through to drafting, implementation and evaluation.

A must-read for anyone who is keen to learn what we should know and do about this highly complex and ever-contested boundary line.

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential singl...

De eerste vrouwelijke minister op het ‘moederdepartement’ van Binnenlandse Zaken is bijna drie decennia na haar dood allerminst vergeten. Haar uitspraak ‘Een beetje integer kan niet’ wordt nog regelmatig geciteerd, twee prijzen dragen haar naam en er is een leerstoel naar Ien Dales vernoemd. De nuchtere, kordate sociaaldemocraat boezemde ontzag in en bekritiseerde regelmatig wat ze beschouwde als ‘volkomen flauwekul’ en ‘echte klets’ in de politiek en de parlementaire journali...

In 'Vreemdelingen in hun eigen land' verlaat de beroemde socioloog Arlie Hochschild Californië, haar progressief linkse, kosmopolitische enclave vol gelijkgestemden, en trekt vijf jaar op met haar rechtse landgenoten in Louisiana, een van de armste en meest conservatieve staten van Amerika. Daar leert ze mensen kennen die een heel ander leven leiden en er ideeën op nahouden die haaks staan op die van haar.

Hochschild raakt bevriend met een automonteur, een aannemer, een telefoonreparateur, ...