Civics category: 1212 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In the developed world, there is an increasing trend towards the use of e-government to further involve citizens in the maintenance of their country. This is not only an improved way to promote existing methods of citizen engagement such as voting or taxation; it also makes information more accessible...
by Lyn Dillies
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
America's premier female Illusionist, Lyn Dillies, adds another DIMENSION to her sparkling career: YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC!, the book based on the groundbreaking illusion she conjured up to deliver a powerful message to get out the vote. At a rally in New Bedford, Massachusetts before the 2008 Presidential...
by Marilyn Price-Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Youth volunteerism and civic engagement has changed in America. While the numbers of young people who volunteer have risen substantially, recent studies show that very few find meaning and purpose through serving their communities. For many, volunteerism has become just another school requirement that...
by John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Nell’ultimo decennio il populismo si è imposto come uno dei fenomeni politici più studiati. La vivacità del dibattito ha seguito il corso degli eventi, caratterizzati dalla diffusione di fenomeni populistici in tutti i continenti. Negli ultimi decenni, sia la democrazia rappresentativa sia il...
Speaking of Politics
Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In this book, authors Katy J.. Harriger and Jill J.. McMillan follow the “Democracy Fellows,” a group of 30 college students, during their 4 years at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to discover whether their experiences in learning and practicing deliberation might counteract...
How Free People Move Mountains
A Male Christian Conservative and a Female Jewish Liberal on a Quest for Common Purpose and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"How Do We Ever Speak with One Voice Again in Our Divided and Angry Country?"
It is amazing how one America is isolated from the "other" America. The red/blue state divisions run so deep that it is possible to live without any interaction—ideological or otherwise—with...
Two Treatises on Government
A Translation into Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Two Treatises on Government: A Translation into Modern English
John Locke’s 1690 book is one of the most important and influential works on government ever published. The first part demolishes the main authoritarian/totalitarian ideology of its day: the doctrine of the divine right of kings...
Persecution or Toleration
An Explication of the Locke-Proast Quarrel, 1689-1704
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
This book traces, in detail, the complex contours of the Locke-Proast debate over the question of toleration-revealing the radical case John Locke made on behalf of toleration. Arguing against the pro-persecution arguments of Jonas Proast, Locke developed a broadly humanistic case for toleration rooted...
Cracking the Code
How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
By the bestselling author and XM and Sirius Satellite radio host heard on more than eighty radio stations coast to coast seven days a week Shows progressives how to master the science and technology of persuasive communication and counter the right-wing message machine Offers exercises and examples...
The Incidental Steward
Reflections on Citizen Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York’s Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world—local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup efforts, and data-driven citizen science research....
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for my Salad, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order & 9/11 Conspiracy
Mass Shootings in America.
It is no longer a question of 'if.'
It is a question of 'when' and 'where.'
The strongest...
The 8 Laws of Change
How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Scientifically based strategies for enacting successful and enduring change on personal, societal, and global levels, no matter what your background
• 2016 Nautilus Silver Award
• Shares the stories of people who have changed history, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ben Franklin,...
Citizenship under Fire
Democratic Education in Times of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to...