Civics category: 1212 books
Overcoming America / America Overcoming
Can We Survive Modernity?
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
In Overcoming America / America Overcoming, Stephen Rowe shows how the moral disease and political paralysis that plague America are symptomatic of the fact that America herself has been overtaken by the modern values which she exported to the rest of the world. He points to a way out of this current...
Intersectionality, Class and Migration
Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants in the U.K.
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "fit in" with British society. Based on a series of interviews and participant observations with two cohorts of "privileged" Iranian migrant women...
The Future of Democracy
Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for institutions such as schools, and for young people themselves, who are more likely to succeed in life if they are engaged in their communities. In The Future...
The EU Education Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era
A Comprehensive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and possible developments in EU education law and policy. It covers the innovations brought about by the Lisbon Treaty as well as the Lisbon/EU 2020 Strategy and its implications for education and training and analyses the EU...
Citizen Lobbyists
Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Citizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on immigration policy in the United States. The U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Yet while the lofty words enshrined with the Statue of Liberty stand as a source of national pride, the rhetoric and...
by Gary Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
HOA Crisis in America is a compilation of time zones created by Professor Solomon. The timezones on hoacrisisinamerica.com have been transcribed into a book. The book covers the controversy surrounding the detrimental effects of living in Homeowners Associations, called HOAs. In this book Professor Solomon...
The Revolution Generation
How Millennials Can Save America and the World (Before It's Too Late)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From the activist and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker of Fuel and Kiss the Ground comes an ambitious book showcasing the captivating stories of Millennial change-makers in order to empower and motivate today’s young adults to rise up to their potential for greatness.
With eye-opening research...
Varieties of Civic Innovation
Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building...
by Georgia Anne Geyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Veteran political columnist Georgie Anne Geyer explores, through exhaustive research and interviews, the controversy over illegal immigration and bilingualism.
by Hiroshi Motomura
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education...
Partnerships and Collaborations in Public Library Communities
Resources and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Public libraries must connect to their local communities. Considering modern funding constraints, this can be best done by collaborating and partnering with other local organizations. Partnerships and Collaborations in Public Library Communities: Resources and Solutions shows how these partnerships can...
Mitten in Europa
Verflechtung und Abgrenzung in der Schweizer Geschichte
Language: German
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Schweizer Geschichte ist transnationale Geschichte. Es ist die Geschichte eines Raums, der sich im Austausch und in steter Auseinandersetzung mit seinen europäischen Nachbarn nach und nach als Staat territorial abgrenzte und sich seiner besonderen Identität sowie seiner engen Grenzen bewusst wurde....
Indoktrination in der Schule
Wie Menschen zu gehorsamen Arbeitern erzogen werden
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Mittlerweile weiß fast jeder aufgeklärte Mensch, dass man den Massenmedien nicht trauen kann.
Doch nicht nur die Nachrichten und die Tageszeitungen manipulieren uns. Die größte Indoktrination findet in den Schulen und Universitäten statt.
Die allgemeine Schulpflicht wurde nicht eingeführt, um...