Civics & Citizenship

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817913649Author William DamonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330556Author Don EberlyFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 649g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Social Issues) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781576755853Author Andrea Batista SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Pauulu's Diaspora is a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging U.S.-centered views of...

What does silent citizenship mean in a democracy? With levels of economic and political inequality on the rise across the developed democracies, citizens are becoming more disengaged from their neighbourhoods and communities, more distrustful of...

An atheist philosopher and a Protestant minister interact in a constructive and respectful dialogue about their differing views on life, stressing the importance of honesty, civility, and community engagement at a time of polarized politics. Unity in...

Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826222831Author Justin Buckley DyerFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807023815Author Frances Moore LappeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm...

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa 'from below,' asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state.Almost half of the population of the African continent...

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been...

This book provides an integrated analysis of the complex nature of citizenship in Israel. Contributions from leading social and political theorists explore different aspects of citizenship through the demands and struggles of minority groups to provide a...

The idea of citizenship is widely used in daily life. 'Citizenship tests' are used to determine who can inhabit a country; 'citizen charters' have been used to prescribe levels of service provision; 'citizens' juries' are used in planning or policy...

Drawing upon a common conceptual framework of political webcampaigning the book offers theoretical reflections on Internet-based campaign politics. It provides a comparative overview on the use of the Internet as a campaigning instrument by diverse...

Immigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek citizenship...

Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a...

In his study, Markus Jager explores the coalescence of Joan Baez's work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavours as a political activist throughout the last fifty years. He illustrates an American popular singer's significance as a political...

In the late 19th century, the so-called "German Method", which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At the same time as deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation...

This book provides a much-needed analytical account of the implications of interactive participation in the construction of media content. Although web journalism is a fast-changing technology this book will have sustained appeal to an international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815797050Author I. William ZartmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with...

Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly looking beyond their national boundaries for electoral and political support. While migrants rarely cast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815780083Author James Allen SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815718673Author E. J. DionneFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices. This book focuses on the conflict within Israel...

The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital and social media platforms. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and...

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel...

From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge of this fair isle.Inspired by the UK citizenship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521103Author Alero Ayida-OtoboFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Panoma PressWeight(grams) 166g

"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." -Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are...

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly...

The 2019 General Election was historic. In one fell swoop it resolved the longstanding stalemate surrounding Brexit and redrew the electoral map of Britain, breaking the deadlock in Parliament and bringing about the fall of Labour's so-called 'Red Wall'...

From Syrian asylum seekers to super-rich foreign investors, immigration is one of the most controversial issues facing Britain today. Politicians kick the subject from one election to the next with energetic but ineffectual promises to 'crack down',...

An historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day. Both the status and understanding of citizenship in practice and the theoretical and advisory writings...

In the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypass democratic processes, and turn social networks into battlefields. Facebook, Google and Twitter - where our politics...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." -Dan Rather"A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new generation. In these essays,...

"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626568952Author JAYFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 16mm

First published in 2001, Propaganda and the Public Mind constitutes a series of discussions with the journalist David Barsamian and is the perfect complement to Chomsky's major works of media study such as Manufacturing Consent and Necessary llusions...