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Synopsis
Textbooks seldom inspire accolades, particularly the dry behemoths often used in survey courses. A Novel Approach to Politics turns conventional wisdom on its head. This is a textbook your students will want to read Douglas A. Van Belle delivers all of the core concepts and real-world political examples you expect from an introductory book, gives students a solid grounding in political institutions, ideologies, economics and more--all while referencing examples from 1984 to Game of Thrones to The Avengers.
New material includes coverage of the Obama administration and other changes in administrations and regimes worldwide; current policy debates about things like reproductive rights, whether corporations are people, and the effect of partisanship; international happenings such as the Arab Spring and the Euro crisis; and other assorted intergalactic matters. Throughout, Van Belle adds a wealth of new and recent movies and books to the book, drawing from current pop culture.