Civics category: 1212 books
Political Action
A Practical Guide to Movement Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Political theorist Michael Walzer's classic guide is a perfect introduction to social activism, including what-to-do advice for deciding which issues to take on, organizing, fundraising, and providing effective leadership
Political Action is a how-to book for activists that was written at one...
Civilization
The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
This manifesto is the definitive work of Abdullah Öcalan, crucial for understanding the Kurdish revolution. Here Öcalan outlines a democratic alternative for the Middle East.
A criticism that limits itself to capitalism is too superficial, Öcalan argues, and turns his eyes to the underlying...
The World Bank and HIV/AIDS
Setting a global agenda
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank. The governance of HIV/ AIDS. Through economic incentive they have restructured the is a political foundations of...
by Christopher Caldwell, Paul A. Cantor, James W. Ceaser
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual...
by John Agresto, Mark Bauerlein, Peter A. Benoliel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America’s contemporary youth seem to lack...
Fragmented Citizens
The Changing Landscape of Gay and Lesbian Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
A sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be
The landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once...
Making Citizens
Political Socialization Research and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities,...
Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing...
Thomas More
Why Patron of Statesmen?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
The year 2015 marks the 15****th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s promulgation of Thomas More as Patron Saint of Statesmen and Politicians. Yet during these years no serious answer has been given by a community of scholars as to why More was named such. What were More’s guiding principles...
One Nation Undecided
Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A unique primer on how to think intelligently about the thorniest public issues confronting us today
Let's be honest, we've all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without always thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions,...
Whose Streets?
The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
In June 2010 activists opposing the G20 meeting held in Toronto were greeted with arbitrary state violence on a scale never before seen in Canada. Whose Streets? is a combination of testimonials from the front lines and analyses of the broader context, an account that both reflects critically on what...
Principle of Duty
An Essay on the Foundations of the Civic Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2001
The First American edition of a British best-seller In The Principle of Duty
The First
How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
From celebrated public intellectual and New York Times bestselling author, Stanley Fish, comes an urgent and sharply observed look at one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: freedom of speech.
How does the First Amendment really work? Is it a principle or a value? What is hate speech...
Postcolonial Transitions in Europe
Contexts, Practices and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontiers in contemporary Europe? Postcolonial Transitions in Europe explores these questions from different theoretical, geopolitical and media perspectives.
Drawing...