Civics category: 1212 books
Everyday Politics
Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He...
Brexit and Beyond
Rethinking the Futures of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Brexit will have significant consequences for the country, for Europe, and for global order. And yet much discussion of Brexit in the UK has focused on the causes of the vote and on its consequences for the future of British politics. This volume examines the consequences of Brexit for the future...
Battle Royal
Monarchists vs. Republicans and the Crown of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
What is the future of the monarchy in Canada?
A strong republican movement in Canada stresses that the monarchy is archaic and anti-democratic, an embarrassing vestige of our colonial past. An equally vibrant monarchist movement, however, defends its loyalty to royalty, asserting that the Queen...
Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions,...
The Tao of Democracy
Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The Tao of Democracy presents an increasingly relevant and compelling vision of wiser public policy and vibrant democratic culture. Written by lifelong activist Tom Atlee, The Tao of Democracy is rooted in a simple, yet revolutionary proposition that opens doors to positive democratic change: Given...
InExActArt - The Autopoietic Theatre of Augusto Boal
A Handbook of Theatre of the Oppressed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This handbook not only provides a very wide-ranging introduction and orientation to the world of the Theatre of the Oppressed, but Birgit Fritz also presents concrete and practical assistance for structuring basic workshops in process-oriented theatre work and in developing Forum Theatre plays.
Birgit...
ABC's of Human Survival
A Paradigm for Global Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The ABCs of Human Survival examines the effect of militant nationalism and the lawlessness of powerful states on the well-being of individuals and local communities?and the essential role of global citizenship within that dynamic. Based on the analysis of world events, Dr. Arthur Clark presents militant...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
To encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute published this digital edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Can the government...
by Andrew Bushard
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
The First Amendment is one of America's greatest blessings, thus this book's poems praise and honor this great amendment.
Borderlands Media
Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.
Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s...
Civil Society and World Regions
How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Supranational regionalism and regional integration have for a long time been top-down processes, led by the few and imposed on the many. The role of citizens, especially those active in civil society, has been neglected by scholars, students, and commentators of regionalism. In reaction to the prevalence...
Exploding Data
Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Forward-looking manifesto by an acknowledged authority on a critical issue facing the country and the world
Chertoff is highly regarded on both sides of the political spectrum
Chertoff appears regularly as an expert on national media, so we can expect widespread national and regional...
Against Authority
Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In both his novels and in his 2005 essay, How We Live Now, John Twelve Hawks was one of the first authors to warn us about the growing power of surveillance technology. Now he has written a personal and controversial book that shows how our lives are watched and analyzed by governments and international...
Child Labor and the Urban Third World
Toward a New Understanding of the Problem
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living....