Civics category: 1212 books
by Thomas Linzey, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
As the co-founder and staff attorney for the nonprofit Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Thomas Linzey is engaged in the work of...
by Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 1994
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance,...
From the Ground Up
A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work. **
What do we owe...
Getting to Maybe
How the World Is Changed
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...
Digital citizenship education
Volume 2: Multi-stakeholder consultation report
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
An analysis of good practices, research findings, lessons learned and resources identified across Europe in the area of digital citizenship: empowerment of children through education Most young people in Europe today were born and have grown up in the digital era. Education authorities have the duty...
by Marci Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK How To Become A U.S. Citizen is your definitive pocket guide to becoming a permanent legal resident of the United States. Informative and concise, this book gathers and condenses crucial information on citizenship and presents it in an easy-to-read format. MEET THE AUTHOR...
by Sergio Baratto
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Genova, G8, luglio 2001. La ribellione contro la mercificazione del mondo è sul punto di coagularsi in un movimento internazionale organizzato che neppure la repressione poliziesca sembra poter fermare. Ma l’estate della sommossa è destinata a spegnersi in un autunno precoce: l’11 settembre...
Slapped!
A Novel Based on a True Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Two headstrong conservative Mormon housewives, bent on preserving open space near Utahs Jordan River for their children and coming generations, speak out publicly against a multimillion-dollar commercial project that would encroach on the river and destroy wildlife habitat. They are promptly sued...
Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this passivity. Many Americans are deeply demoralized by decades...
The Straight State
Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship...
On Tyranny
Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
#1 New York Times Bestseller • A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.
The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats,...
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...
No Is Not Enough
Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A road map to resistance in the Trump era from internationally acclaimed activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein.
"This book is a toolkit to help understand how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip...