Political Science

Sleepwalking Into Wokeness: How We Got Here

Author: 

O’Sullivan, John

Credentials: 

John O’Sullivan CBE is President and founder of the Danube Institute in Budapest, Hungary; international editor of Quadrant Magazine in Sydney, Australia; associate editor of the Hungarian Review; a fellow of the National Review Institute; and editor at large of National Review. He is a co-founder and director of Twenty-First Century Initiatives as well as the International Reagan Thatcher Society. Mr. O’Sullivan served as a Special Adviser and speechwriter to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He was the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 by former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Lady Thatcher. It played a major role in bringing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into NATO.

America and the West are now in the penultimate stage of a revolution defined by “wokeness.” What we call “partisanship” is essentially the effect of the late but growing realization of the revolution’s opponents that they face a major threat to their interests, convictions, and ways of life. It is not the “wokerati,” but their likely victims who are waking up.

Market: 
Political Science, Social Science, Journalism, Conservatism, Liberalism, Sociology, Politics, Media Studies, Wokeism
Release Date: 
December 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680533293 Hardcover
Price: 
$45
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
423
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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African Migration: Recent Trends, Key Influences, and Implications

Author: 

Ojakorotu, Victor & Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo, Editors

Credentials: 

Editors: Victor Ojakorotu is Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at North-West University (NWU), in South Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa, as well as B.Sc. (first-class honors) and M.Sc. degrees in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Ajayi Crowther University in Oyo, Nigeria. He holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in political science, which he received from the University of Lagos in 2008 and 2017, respectively. His academic specializations include public administration, public policy analysis, development administration, the political sociology of African governance, and environmental politics. From 2018 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at North-West University (NWU). He practiced journalism with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from 2008, rising to the position of Senior Editor/Chief Principal Correspondent, while also reporting/editing on several News Desks subjects including African migration.

The issue of African migration since the Covid-19 pandemic depended on novel influences and determinants. The chapters in this edited volume evaluate recent variables that instigated the migration of Africans and assess implications for Africans, Africans in diaspora, and their global reverberations. The volume unites well-researched and theoretically informed empirical studies constructed on qualitative research methodologies.

Market: 
Social Science, Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Migration, Africa, African Studies, Critical Theory
Release Date: 
November 8, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680535396 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
186
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Enemies of the Innocent: Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age

Author: 

Haug, Nils A.

Credentials: 

Nils A. Haug is a trial lawyer by profession. He is a member of the International Bar Association, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, the National Association of Scholars, and a faculty member of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retired from law to focus on writing and teaching, his particular field of interest is the intersection of Western culture with political theory, philosophy, theology, English Literature, ethics, and law. Dr. Haug’s degrees include an M.A. (cum laude) in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Theology (Apologetics). He is the author of Politics, Law, and Disorder in the Garden of Eden – the Quest for Identity (2023) and Enemies of the Innocent – Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age (2023). His book, Towards the Eternal City – Ancient Jewish Views of Prophecy, will be released in 2024.

“A critical insight into malignant ideals devastating Western civilization”
- Peter Titlestad, Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Pretoria

“A perturbing but necessary exploration of primary human values struggling for survival”
- Henk Stoker, Professor of Apologetics & Ethics, North-West University

“The harmful effects of complex ideological forces threatening the legal and ethical order of society are revealed in this compelling study”
- Hilton Staniland, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University

Market: 
Political Science, Social Science, Religion, Humanism, Sociology, Politics, Critical Theory, Christianity, Judaism, Contemporary Culture
Release Date: 
November 8, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680535419 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
374
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Recollections of Sir James Bacon: Judge and Vice Chancellor, 1798-1895

Author: 

de Marcellus, Juliette, Editor

Credentials: 

Juliette de Marcellus, author and journalist, is a great-great-granddaughter of Sir James Bacon. She has produced this book from his unpublished memoirs. In addition to a lifetime career as journalist and critic, Miss de Marcellus, has edited and overseen the publication of two celebrated anthropological studies, The Atlas of Man and The Atlas of Language, by her father, Count Henri de Marcellus. She is also the author of two satirical works, a novel, The Princess, or the I Love Paris Ball and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Carnegie Hall.

Sir James Bacon’s Recollections paint a portrait of many of the leading characters of the time, cases he judged, and historic events as they took place. Written with warmth and humour, and carefully preserved by his descendants, they throw an intimate, revealing light on the period in which he lived. They have the immediacy of true experience.
– Lord Crathorne, KCVO, KStJ, FRSA, FRS, Co-Chair of the All-Party
Parliamentary Arts and Heritage Group, formerly Patron of the Friends of the
Public Records Office, and author of family histories.

Market: 
History, Political Science, Law, European History, Britain, British History, England, English Legal History, Nineteenth Century Britain, Common Law
Release Date: 
November 29, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680535327 Hardcover
Price: 
$40
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
150
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan: A Comparative Approach to Science, Technology, and Society

Author: 

Amato, Silvia, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Silvia Amato, Ph.D., is an international author. Her research, currently based on independent study projects, includes doctoral dissertation research centered on international Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Studies, and she received her M.A in International Relations in Taiwan. Her main thematic interests focus on comparative development, regionalism, and environmental dynamics intertwined with local planning designs.

Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan compares practical management cases regarding nuclear energy in regional neighbouring partners: Japan and Taiwan. An introductory overview of Japan’s nuclear policy leads to the specification of important factors tangible in everyday life. What we perceive as knowledge transfer innovation and renewed industrial assessments shift to a regional territory that develops its own rules and practices within the dimension of nuclear energy innovation technology and post-crisis regulatory agendas.

Market: 
Science, Political Science, Public Policy, Asia, Asian Studies, Far East, East Asia, Energy, Energy Studies, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Power, Japan, Taiwan
Release Date: 
December 29, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680535501 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
400
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Last Great Banzai: Saipan, 1944

Author: 

Gates, Bradley Mason

Credentials: 

Bradley Mason Gates is a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He holds a B.S. in education from Millersville University, in Pennsylvania, and a MPA in public administration from Golden Gate University, in California. During his career, Brad participated in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada, and later commanded the Marine Corps artillery force in Beirut, Lebanon. In 1985, Brad received the General John A. Lejeune Award for Inspirational Leadership, and in 1987 he received the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. In 1984, Brad attended the 40th Anniversary of survivors of the Saipan suicide attack of 1944, the subject of this book. He subsequently spent almost ten years conducting personal interviews and other research on the attack, including a trip to Saipan in 1992. Brad and his wife Kathy, also a graduate of Millersville University, met while they were students. They have three children and five grandchildren.

On July 7, 1944, all remaining Japanese forces on Saipan conducted a massive suicide attack against the American forces that had landed on the island several weeks earlier. At approximately 3am, the Japanese forces rushed southward on the Tanapag Plain and overwhelmed the soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 27th Infantry Division. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers continued unimpeded for 1,200 yards, where they came upon the U.S. Marine artillerymen of the 3rd Battalion of the 10th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division.

Market: 
History, Political Science, Social Science, Military History, World War II, Pacific War, American History, Japanese History, Pacific Campaign, Saipan, Banzai, Warfare, War Psychology
Release Date: 
October 1, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680533248 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
298
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English

Author: 

Pandey, Sarita, PhD

Credentials: 

Sarita Pandey is Assistant Professor of English at the Jananayak Chandrashekhar University, in Ballia, India. She earned her Ph.D. from University of Allahabad and a degree from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her areas of academic interest include ecofeminism, Indian fiction, gender studies, translation studies, Indic Studies, and theater. She holds a diploma in yoga from Banaras Hindu University.

The theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context. Ecofeminism is an inclusive theory and provides an intersectional study of feminism, ecocriticism, and literature. Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English unearths the sensibility of Indian women writings through the lens of ecofeminism. This book gives all the required details about ecofeminism, major movements and ecofeminist theories, in both the Indian as well as Western perspectives.

Market: 
Political Science, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, South Asian Studies, India, Indian Literature, Feminism, Women’s Literature, Ecology, Ecofeminism
Release Date: 
June 19, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536317 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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The Post-Truth University: Academia in the Age of the Great Awokening, Cancel Culture, and Identity Politics

Author: 

Zaera-Polo, Alejandro

Credentials: 

Alejandro Zaera-Polo received his diploma in architecture with honors from ETSAM Madrid and his master’s with distinction from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam before establishing Foreign Office Architects in London in 1993. He started AZPML as a legacy practice of FOA after its dissolution in 2011. He has completed many buildings across multiple typologies (institutional, residential, commercial, transport, and retail) across a wide geography, with projects completed in the UK, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, China, Austria, and Luxemburg. Besides his professional practice, Zaera-Polo was dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam from 2001 to 2006, and of the Princeton School of Architecture, where he was a professor from 2012 to 2021. He has been Visiting Professor at Yale, Columbia, and UCLA, and was a unit master at the Architectural Association in London. He is the author of The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation X, Imminent Commons. Urban Questions for the Near Future/The Expanded City, and The Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces.

Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s book is a first-person account by the former dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture, an international architect who served as a professor who worked at the school for ten years. The book describes the climate of ideological suppression in an elite American university and the mechanisms involved in the process. After an accusation of plagiarism forced him to step down, Zaera-Polo sued Princeton for defamation, but remained a professor until the ideological impositions over his advisory duties forced him into a public conflict with the institution.

Market: 
Political Science, Social Science, Education, Higher Education, Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, Race, Black Studies, American Politics
Release Date: 
July 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536201 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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Washington, DC 20036
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An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music: A Celebration of Dead White Male Composers

Author: 

Reilly, Robert R., & Jens F. Laurson

Credentials: 

Robert R. Reilly has written about classical music for more than 35 years and is the author of Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music. He was the music critic for Crisis magazine for 16 years, and has written for High Fidelity, Musical America, Schwann/Opus, and the American Record Guide. He reviews concerts and operas in the United States and Europe for Ionarts and Seen and Heard International. In his 25 years in government, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House under President Ronald Reagan, and the United States Information Agency. He was also the director of Voice of America. He has published widely on foreign policy and “war of ideas” issues and is the author of The Closing of the Muslim Mind, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding, and other books. He is the director of the Westminster Institute in Vienna, Virginia.

Jens F. Laurson received his formative musical experiences at the hands of tapes of the Bach Passions his father made for him, a Haydn audio-biography for kids, and singing Rheinberger Masses as a chorister in Regensburg, Germany. He has branched out since, becoming a musical omnivore. A political scientist by training, and critic and translator by trade, he has written about classical music for the Washington Post, Forbes, the Wiener Zeitung, and ClassicsToday, among other publications. He received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He shares his daily listening diet as @ClassicalCritic on Twitter and Instagram

Great composers’ music is to be enjoyed, not fretted about! An Anti-Woke Guide to Classical Music, with chapters on numerous dead white male composers, aims to help. Classical music, like much of Western culture, is increasingly under pressure and criticism. Past evils, or perceived evils, seem to be haunting it, and raise the question of what, if anything, in our cultural canon can be appreciated without a guilty conscience. Was Mozart an apologist for colonialization? Did Beethoven harbor unjustifiable views about the emancipation of women?

Market: 
Fine Arts, Political Science, Music, Classical Music, Identity Politics, Music Criticism, Wokeism
Release Date: 
January 3, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680538489 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
298
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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America’s Future: Major Social Changes

Author: 

Martinez, Jose, Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Jose Martinez, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology (ret.) at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. He is the author of Inequality in American Education: The Entrenchment of a Two-Tiered System; Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education; Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society; and Football in American Society. He has contributed chapters in texts such as Diversity in the Workforce. Dr. Martinez holds degrees in education, history, and psychology, and his doctorate is in sociology. He has taught for over thirty years. The media calls on him regarding social issues, and he was a regular co-host on the PBS program Hispanic Perspectives. He also has held administrative and other positions in agencies at all levels: the federal, state, county, local, and school district.

Large-scale social changes are taking place in American society, often even without technological change. America’s Future examines these transformations. An introduction lays the groundwork for five of the most significant areas where social changes are occurring: population, politics, education, economics, and media. An underlying theme emphasizes what is specifically driving these changes. There are reasons why what is transpiring today is very different than before and what such portends for the future. Our lives are notably changing, though most are unaware how.

Market: 
Sociology, Political Science, American Studies, Economics, Identity Politics, Technology
Release Date: 
July 1, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680538410 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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