Civics category: 1212 books
Singapore
Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singapore’s colonial past and independent present,...
by Richard Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen of a modern, complex community? Why is citizenship important? Can we create citizenship, and can we test for it? In this fascinating Very Short Introduction, Richard Bellamy explores the answers to these questions...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal...
Authentic Patriotism
Restoring America's Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A provocative, inspiring account of our neglected American ideals and the people who are living them today--and restoring our nation's dream
Patriotism has become a loaded word: one that is wielded against people with whom we might disagree, or whose cultural origins don't match our own.
But...
The Politics of Historic Districts
A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political...
Cold Anger
A Story of Faith and Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1990
"Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his...
The Power of Citizenship
Why John F. Kennedy Matters to a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
“The best and most interesting book written on the Kennedy Presidency in decades . . . One of the most moving books I have ever read on patriotism and citizenship” (David Eisenhower, bestselling author of Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945).
More than a half century after President Kennedy’s...
John Dewey and the Habits of Ethical Life
The Aesthetics of Political Organizing in a Liquid World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
This book uses John Dewey to articulate discursive practices that would help citizens form better intellectual and moral relationships with their fragmented, shifting political environment. These practices do not impart more or better information to citizens, but instead consist in dialog exhibiting...
by Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
One of America’s most celebrated lawyers and a Democrat explains why impeachment proceedings would be a bad idea for America―and only intensify the larger problem with our democracy.
In the 2018 New York Times bestseller The Case Against Impeaching Trump, Alan Dershowitz lamented how American...
by Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
"Alan Dershowitz is a brilliant lawyer...He has written a new and very important book called The Case Against Impeaching Trump, which I would encourage all people...to read!"—President Donald Trump
The New York Times bestseller
“This brand new book by Professor Dershowitz is absolutely...
Madison's Music
On Reading the First Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law” from one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers (The New York Times).
Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we’ve been treating small,...
Uncivil Liberties
Deconstructing Libertarianism
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Last year, Praxis Peace Institute responded to the libertarian conspiracy film Thrive with a pamphlet titled “Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism,” carefully and concisely laying out the problems inherent in libertarian philosophy and why it is so appealing to today’s society. Now,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scientists. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into six parts. Part I examines Canadian citizenship and political identities, while...
Springtime
The New Student Rebellions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government’s savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the nature of education itself. Involving universities...