Civics category: 1212 books
Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport
The Ultimate Volunteer Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Democracy is not a spectator sport! Learn how to get in the game with this comprehensive collection of more than two hundred community service opportunities and experiences. More than a simple resource guide, this unique handbook includes interviews, anecdotes, and commentary from the top folks in...
Mosh the Polls
Youth Voters, Popular Culture, and Democratic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
This timely, highly readable edited collection undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the innovative ways in which both the political process and the entertainment industry appeal to voters under the age of 30 and how the intended audience receives these endeavors. Along the way, contributors...
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
The Changing Nature of American Valor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
From the men and women associated with the American Revolution and Civil War to the seminal figures in the struggles for civil and women's rights, Americans have been fascinated with icons of great achievement, or at least reputation. But who spins today's narratives about American heroism, and to...
Global Citizenship
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The idea of global citizenship is that human beings are "citizens of the world." Whether or not we are global citizens is a topic of great dispute, however those who take part in the debate agree that a global citizen is a member of the wider community of humanity, the world, or a similar...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
This book explores the contemporary approaches to democratic citizenship and community based education. It provides a series of case studies and reflects on the lessons of national initiatives. The case studies include examples of active learning for active citizenship with refugees, asylum seekers...
Democracy in the Making
How Activist Groups Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Winner of the 2012 ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award 2013 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements "Democracy in the Making offers a marvelous synthesis of sociological...
Fly to the Assemblies!
Seattle and the Rise of the Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
“But here is the thing with listening. At some point, it is not enough. The silence of the attentive, after all, sounds exactly the same as the silence of the complicit. . . . The question, then, becomes when to act: at what point is it appropriate to stop listening and actually say something?”...
by Frederick Malphurs
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
In the career memoir, My Life in the VA: Lessons in Leadership, a thirty-seven year employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs shares an insiders view and valuable insight into the inner-workings of a bureaucracy. Fred Malphurs worked in both the central office as well as the VA healthcare system...
THE DEMOCRACY AMENDMENTS
How to Amend Our U.S. Constitution to Rescue Democracy For All Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
Our democracy is in trouble and we the people know it. Our U.S. political system is completely distorted as it’s currently financed and structured. Problems with the way we select our political leaders have been on full display in the 2016 Presidential election.
Once elected, Washington politicians...
by Fiona McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical,...
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
One Hundred Years of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political communities were formed, co-existed and (dis)integrated.
By analysing one hundred...
Democratic Decision-Making
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Democratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process. The book is divided into four parts: democratic statesmanship, the extent to which limitations of the democratic...
Naked Politics
Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
To celebrate Singapore’s fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable...