Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
Published 2025
384 pages
The most popular government & public policy books of 2025
Books on government and public policy look at how states are actually run. Parliaments, elections, civil services and courts are examined, along with the choices governments make on health, education, housing and taxes. For anyone who wants to know why policy succeeds or fails. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Superagency
Reid Hoffman, Greg Beato
Published 2025
288 pages
Three Weeks in July
Adam Wishart, James Nally
Published 2025
384 pages
Bird School
Adam Nicolson
Published 2025
448 pages
Another World Is Possible
Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Published 2025
432 pages
Raising AI
De Kai
2025 · 2026 edition
280 pages
Life Among the Cannibals A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It
Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins
Published 2025
385 pages
In a Rain of Dust
David Kinley
Published 2025
392 pages
Youth Work
Tracie Trimmer-Platman
Published 2025
176 pages
Latino Colorado
Ernesto Sagás
Published 2025
288 pages
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Published 2025
320 pages
The Habitation Society
Fred Block
Published 2025
192 pages
In Covid's Wake
Frances Lee, Stephen Macedo
2025 · 2026 edition
344 pages
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
Published 2025
272 pages
The Doctor's Future
Pietro Emanuele Garbelli
Published 2025
250 pages
Machine and Deep Learning Solutions for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Published 2025
460 pages
Agricultural Economics And Policy (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy)
David Zilberman, Ruiqing Miao, Jian Rong
Published 2025
492 pages
Implications of Artificial Intelligence–Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change
Published 2025
116 pages
Child Welfare in America
Yvonne Vissing
Published 2025
248 pages
Artificial Intelligence for Global Counter-Terrorism Utilizing Deep Learning and Innovative Strategies
Christian Kaunert, Bhupinder Singh, Sally Lukose, Anjali Raghav, Rhishikesh Dave
Published 2025
216 pages
From Failure to Failure The Canadian Military’s Attempts to Manage Its Sexual Misconduct Crises, 2000–2022
Allan English
Published 2025
264 pages
Radical Dreamers Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education
Joseph P. Viteritti, Thomas Hunter Professor of Public Policy Joseph P Viteritti
Published 2025
288 pages
Mending Privately Owned Public Spaces Works on Taste and Spatial Practice
Adriana Cobo Corey
Published 2025
300 pages
OECD Review of the Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Thailand
OECD
Published 2025
138 pages