Civics category: 1212 books
Conservative Victory
Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Barack Obama and his radical team of self-professed socialists, fringe activists, and others are trying to remake the American way of life. They have used their new Democratic majority to launch an alarming assault on our capitalist system—while abandoning the war on terror, undermining our national...
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
Dollarocracy
How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades...
Give Us Liberty
A Tea Party Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots...
We the People Elementary School Texbook
The Citizen and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches upper elementary students about government and active citizenship. Students explores the history and principles of American constitutional democracy through critical-thinking, cooperative-learning and a simulated congressional hearing culminating activity.
E-Governance and Social Inclusion
Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
The application of e-government technologies has led to increased public participation and social inclusion, while allowing for greater government transparency. These technologies provide accessibility to online content and services while offering the public an active voice in governmental issues. E-Governance...
Building a Civil Society
Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally...
City Power
Urban Governance in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. That dubious honor marked the end of a long decline, during which city leaders slashed municipal costs and desperately sought to attract private investment. That same year, an economically resurgent New York City elected a progressive...
Crunchy Cons
The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week’s supply of organic vegetables (“Ewww, that’s so lefty”), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of...
The Seventeen Solutions
New Ideas for Our American Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today—a fearless reformer whom The Atlantic named one of the 100 most influential figures in American history. In these troubling times...
by Ralph Nader
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state,...
Running from Office
Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The past two decades of politics in Washington have seen increased partisanship, prolonged stalemates, and numerous scandals. For today's teenagers and young adults, years of ineffective and inefficient political leadership have completely eroded any sense that politicians or government have the ability...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
The Change Manifesto
Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
"The Change Manifesto is a street-by-street, town-by-town guide to making an America that works. Our nation has the potential to be an example of freedom and justice to the world and each of us has the ability to have tremendous impact. In this stirring call to arms, John Whitehead tells the...