Civics category: 1212 books
American Catholics and Civic Engagement
A Distinctive Voice
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...
Black Churches and Local Politics
Clergy Influence, Organizational Partnerships, and Civic Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
This book on black churches and urban politics uses case studies from various cities to examine the strategies and tactics of activist clergy and congregations. These case studies illustrate how black activist clergy and congregations negotiate the political terrains of their respective cities. The...
Stand Up!
How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
**Stand Up!
How to Get Involved, Speak Out, and Win in a World on Fire
A society that actively combats racism, treats climate change as a serious threat, and ensures that all people have a living wage and a decent life for themselves and their families is not a progressive pipe dream. Victories...
by Val Rosenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
America is in the midst of a daily debate about the issue of undocumented workers. It seems that every day there is another controversy about immigration in the news. Most Americans read these articles and look upon the undocumented immigrants as an undifferentiated block of people. Few seem to truly...
by Van Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government – and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House.
Jones...
Do It Anyway
The New Generation of Activists
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin’s rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world?
The Jury and Democracy
How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands...
Citizens of Nowhere
How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social...
The Mysterious Death of Udo Ulfkotte
Evidence for a Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The known journalist Udo Ulfkotte died on the 13th of January, 2017. The author of the bestseller “Journalists for Hire” suffered a heart failure according to official reports.
On closer inspection doubts about this theory arise.
There is evidence which points to a murder.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen. Isin and Nielsen show that an 'act of citizenship' is the event through which subjects constitute themselves as citizens. They claim that such an act involves both responsibility...
Canada's Constitutional Monarchy
An Introduction to Our Form of Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Canadian Crown is a unique institution that has been integral to our ideals of democracy from its beginning in 16th-century New France.
Canadians enjoy one of the most stable forms of government on the planet, but there is a crisis in our understanding of the role the Crown plays in that...
From 'People' to 'Citizen'
Democracy’s Must Take Road
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
From ‘People’ to ‘Citizen’ brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of the difference that democracy makes to the life of a nation. Unlike nationalism, democracy takes our attention away from the past to the future by focusing on the specific concerns...
Media and Modernity
Communications, Women, and the State in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Two puzzles of modern Indiaone well known, the other overlookedform the core of this book. For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been famed, first as a home of Communists, then as a perplexing model of development. But why Communists? And why development, especially in a place where the economy usually...
The Aporia of Rights
Explorations in Citizenship in the Era of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Aporia of Rights is an exploration of the perplexities of human rights, and their inevitable and important intersection with the idea of citizenship. Written by political theorists and philosophers, essays canvass the complexities involved in any consideration of rights at this time. Yeatman and...