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From Dictatorship to Democracy A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a thought-provoking essay that tackles the urgent challenge of dismantling dictatorships and safeguarding against the emergence of new ones. Authored in 1993 by Gene Sharp, a distinguished political science professor at the University of Massachusetts, this influential work has resonated globally, being translated into over 30 languages and published in numerous countries. This Fourth United States Edition, released in May 2010, has played a pivotal role in inspiring movements around the world, including the transformative...

Discover the profound insights of From Dictatorship to Democracy A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, a groundbreaking essay by Gene Sharp, written in 1993. This influential work tackles the critical issue of dismantling dictatorships and safeguarding against their resurgence. Sharp, a renowned political science professor at the University of Massachusetts, has seen his book published in numerous countries and translated into over 30 languages, with editions available through the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston. This newly recorded second version features a quicker reading pace, making...

How to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism and nationalism don't march fully-formed into government; they creep. Weaving memoir, history and clear-sighted argument, Temelkuran proposes alternative answers to the pressing - and too often paralysing - political questions of our time. How to Lose A Country is an exploration of the insidious ideas at the core of these movements and an urgent, eloquent defence of democracy.

“A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority.” —Wall Street Journal Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition...

At the end of the 20th century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the democratic camp for the first time in history. But within a decade, this story had already begun to unravel. Some of the continent's newer democracies slid back towards dictatorship, while citizens in many of its older democracies began questioning democracy's functioning and even its legitimacy.

In The Next Democracy, social entrepreneur Erdem Ovacik delivers a startlingly insightful discussion of a new collective governance model based on markets and data that can improve our wellbeing as individuals, and as a society. The author explains how we can develop the next generation of government that is data-driven, iterative, transparent, and that allows us to decentrally and directly make laws online using prediction markets and delegative voting.

Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.

The only reason I'm still alive is because of the baby growing inside me. My baby saved my life. Now I'm a prisoner inside Cato's fortress. He's pissed at me, livid every time he looks at me. He refuses to sleep with me because now I'm the enemy. But I miss him...and he misses me. I only slept with Cato to save my father, but now he means something to me. I care about him, and I know he cares about me. Can I earn his forgiveness? Can I earn his trust? But even if I do, will he shoot me anyway?