Civics category: 1212 books
Democracy Reinvented
Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Participatory Budgeting-the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States.
Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology...
The Great American Citizenship Quiz
Newly Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The ultimate civics lesson for citizens and would-be citizens alike--now completely revised and updated after the 2016 election.
Do you think you know American history? You might be surprised. The Great American Citizenship Quiz provides the core questions and answers about our history that...
How to Be an American
A Field Guide to Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The current political climate has left many of us wondering how our government actually operates. Sure, we learned about it in school, but if put to the test, how many of us can correctly explain the branches of government? The history of politics? The differences and connections between local government...
Buying a Better World
George Soros and Billionaire Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
The incredible, inside story of the man and the organization changing the way we change the world.
George Soros is well known as the legendary speculator who made a fortune betting against the British pound in 1992, but he is also a philanthropist who has spent billions in order to promote...
The Restless Wave
Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“History matters to McCain, and for him America is and was about its promise. The book is his farewell address, a mixture of the personal and the political. ‘I have loved my life,’ he writes. ‘All of it.’ The Restless Wave is a fitting valedictory for...
Travels with Harley
Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Far more than an account of an 8,000 mile motorcycle adventure across the United States, Travels with Harley is a stirring memoir of an Army veteran’s 30-year quest for peace and personal and national identity. Only through service to others, he learns, can Americans of all ages find their identity...
Life Will Be the Death of Me
. . . and you too!
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery—featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants,...
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
“An engaging, beautifully synthesized page-turner” (Slate). The #1 New York Times bestseller and Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most personal memoir yet, about the 2016 presidential election.
In this “candid and blackly funny” (The New York Times) memoir,...
One Nation
What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
**Dear Reader,
In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.**
Many Americans heard and responded,...
The Can't-idates
Running For President When Nobody Knows Your Name
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The 2016 presidential campaign is one for the history books—and not necessarily in a good way. DONALD TRUMP constantly seems to be saying things that even your drunk uncle wouldn’t utter at Thanksgiving dinner. HILLARY CLINTON has trust issues that rival any email Nigerian prince. This is an election...
by Robert B. Reich
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce...
Der Bruch
Ursachen und Konsequenzen des Umsturzes der Verfassungsordnung Polens 20152016
Language: German
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Der Autor untersucht die Auswirkungen der Wahlsiege der rechtspopulistischen Partei «Recht und Gerechtigkeit» in 2015. Sie gewann sowohl die Präsidentschafts- als auch die Parlamentswahlen in Polen und konnte als erste Partei nach 1989 ohne Koalitionspartner eine Regierung bilden. Mit geradezu...
Tailspin
The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy...
by Alanna Hartzok, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is only in recent human history that land has been enclosed and the rights of use given to a few people, as opposed to a whole community....