Books in Political Science and International Relations
This page provides information on how to search for books in the collections of the University Libraries using OneSearch, how to search for and borrow books owned by other libraries, and some examples of new titles we have recently acquired.
OneSearch
OneSearch allows you to search across all of the library's collections and many of its databases at once. If you are looking for books, it is the best place to start because it searches all of our ebooks and print books.
You can access it on the library homepage and choose whether you want to search everything, our collection of databases and other resources, or our collection research guides and tutorials. Click on the image above to be taken to the library homepage and start your search!
Interested in learning some helpful search strategies and how to make the most out of OneSearch? Check out our OneSearch Guide!
Smart Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
Adelphi’s Interlibrary Loan Service allows students to request materials that the Adelphi Libraries do not own. There is no charge for this service. You can also use ILL to request journal articles or book chapters that are not located in your home campus. You are expected to conform to copyright policy when you use materials obtained through ILL. To access a guide on how to use ILL, click on the link below.
Note: The first time you request materials from Interlibrary Loan, you need to create a profile.
Recent Books in Political Science and International Relations
The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants by ISBN: 9780691204208Publication Date: 2021-09-14The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. In a sweeping and engaging narrative, Adam Goodman examines how federal, state, and local officials have targeted various groups for expulsion, from Chinese and Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century to Central Americans and Muslims today. Goodman uncovers the machine's three primary mechanisms--formal deportations, "voluntary" departures, and self-deportations--and examines how public officials have used them to purge immigrants from the country and exert control over those who remain. Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, businesspeople, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion.
Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by ISBN: 0822988011Publication Date: 2021-03-30This book explores vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents in the industrialized North. Although biomedical, public health, and popular science literature has focused on a scientifically ignorant public, the real problem, Maya J. Goldenberg argues, lies not in misunderstanding, but in mistrust. Public confidence in scientific institutions and government bodies has been shaken by fraud, research scandals, and misconduct. Her book reveals how vaccine studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, compelling rhetorics from the anti-vaccine movement, and the spread of populist knowledge on social media have all contributed to a public mistrust of the scientific consensus. Importantly, it also emphasizes how historical and current discrimination in health care against marginalized communities continues to shape public perception of institutional trustworthiness.
The Sum of Us by ISBN: 9780525509561Publication Date: 2021-02-16Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all.
