Civics category: 1212 books
Things that Can and Cannot Be Said
Essays and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
-This conversation follows on where Academy-award-winning Citizen Four left off, with Edward Snowden in exile in Russia.
- Published to coincide with the release of the film Snowden by Oliver Stone.
-This meeting between one of the US government's most wanted men, Ed Snowden and Arundhati...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena
Professors or Pundits?
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
What is a public intellectual? Where are they to be found? What accounts for the lament today that public intellectuals are either few in number or, worse, irrelevant? While there is a small literature on the role of public intellectuals, it is organized around various thinkers rather than focusing...
Et l’économie, idiots !
Chronique d’un Liban qui tombe
Language: French
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Un milliard Un milliard, c’est mille millions, Ce n’est pas un zéro, c’est 9 zéros Ce n’est même pas 6 zéros, c’est 9 zéros C’est 9 zéros, et ce n’est même pas un milliard, C’est 5 milliards, le manque à gagner hors budget Et c’est 5 milliards le gaspillage dans le budget,...
A Majority of One
Thoreau's Political Writings
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes, so he was arrested and imprisoned. This formed the basis for his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (first published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), where he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or...
Les quatre livres de philosophie morale et politique de la Chine
Traité des Quatre Nations
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2017
La civilisation chinoise est, sans aucun doute, la plus ancienne civilisation de la terre. Elle remonte authentiquement, c’est-à-dire par les preuves de l’histoire chinoise, jusqu’à deux mille six cents ans avant notre ère.
Ce qui doit profondément étonner à la lecture de ce beau...
by Richard Marback
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The essays in this volume are drawn from the tenth anniversary conference of the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University, whose theme, “The Meaning of Citizenship,” provided an opportunity to reflect on a decade of study in the field. In an academic area where definitions are...
Necro Citizenship
Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized...
Arguing for Our Lives
A User's Guide to Constructive Dialog
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "news" has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites, and the idea of debate has become a polarized shouting...
You're More Powerful than You Think
A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Is this the America you want? If not, here's how to claim the power to change your country.
We are in an age of epic political turbulence in America. Old hierarchies and institutions are collapsing. From the election of Donald Trump to the upending of the major political parties to the spread...
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
Politics, Justice, Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin has made key contributions to the field of political philosophy, pushing forward and clarifying the ways that political theorists think about action as the exercise of political freedom. In so doing, she has offered insightful studies of the problems of modern politics that theorists...
Just How Stupid Are We?
Facing the Truth About the American Voter
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Fifty percent of Americans can name four characters from The Simpsons,” but only two out of five can name all three branches of the federal government. No more than one in seven can find Iraq on a map. Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid.
In Just How Stupid Are We?, best-selling author...
The Idea of the Public Sphere
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
by Margo Anderson, Roger Daniels, Leonard Dinnerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
These essays show President Harry S. Truman made considerable contributions as an “immigration president,” though he generally has not been given credit for immigration policy. Truman pioneered refugee admissions, was the first president to propose eliminating all racial/ethnic bars in immigration,...