Civics & Citizenship

From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always...

India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief...

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...

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...

In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between...

Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati History Prize, Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New JerseyFinalist, George Washington PrizeA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2015Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution...

Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book,...

We are constantly being told that we are on the cusp of a cashless society. The financial services industry would certainly like to see it that way. We are being enticed with contactless cards, mobile phone payment apps, and methods of bank transfer:...

The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet...

Youth civic engagement efforts have become common across the globe. With the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, many have turned to civic engagement methodologies to create opportunities for young people to have a voice in...

The truth matters. Vital decisions made on our behalf require that the people in government are honest with the electorate. Vote for Honesty and Get Democracy Done seeks solutions to the increasing problem of dishonest behaviour by some UK politicians...

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe's crisis of democracyA seeming explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy...

In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945...

This is a gripping account of what it is like to live as a Palestinian - as a refugee in your own homeland. Born in Jerusalem, Muna Hamzeh is a journalist who has been writing about Palestinian affairs since 1985. She first worked as a journalist in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956492869Author Andrew D JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Neepradaka PressPublisher Neepradaka Press

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.About the AuthorDerek Heater is Founder Chairman of the Politics Association and the author of several books on political ideas.Reviews"[This] book fundamentally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972919Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 275g

Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Do you feel overwhelmed and confused by the web of administration and legislation that manages your taxes, your healthcare, your safety? Have you been pretending you know what Federalism is for the...

The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperilling our...

'We need effective citizen-lobbyists - not just likers, followers or even marchers - more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the EconomistMany democratic societies are experiencing a...

When Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka's The Open Sore of a Continent appeared in 1996, it received rave reviews in the national media. Now comes Soyinka's powerful sequel to that fearless and passionate book, The Burden of Memory. Where Open Sore offered a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476710006Author Ben ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Simon & Schuster

An introductory survey of the history of the principles and practice of citizenship, based on the premise that the current conditions and debates about citizenship cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of the historical background. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333795Author Eldridge CleaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow...

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A remarkable literary debut . . . Part memoir, part travelogue, Motherlands is ultimately an investigation of how we come to understand the past at all' Guardian Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913666538Author Freddie IxworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Tide House Publishing LtdPublisher Tide House Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

Get up to speed on the U.S. political system Confused by caucuses, primaries, and pollsters? Puzzled by the various parties and special interest groups? Politics For Dummies has everything you need to understand local, state, and national politics; how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887662Author Scott HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement"Magisterial...Hankins shows that the humanists'...

"A book for these times as we confront the fault lines in our democracy...A deeply provocative work about the place of children in strengthening our sense of community."-Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here"Earls and Carlson have...

The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the market and state. Think Like a Commoner dispels such prejudices by explaining the rich history and promising future of...

First published in 1950, Palestine Under the Mandate is an account of the role of Britain in Palestine during the British mandate period from 1920 to 1948. The author served as the chief immigration officer in British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to...

After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called 'gender ideology' or 'gender theory'. Opposition to progressive gender equality is manifested in challenges...

This introduction to the Civil Rights Movement synthesises its history, explaining its origins, development and results as well as historiographical debates. A survey based on a wealth of recent scholarship, it provides a critical perspective on the...

The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and...

Have you ever wanted to know: - Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? - If MI5 has a file on you? - The actual number and type of crimes that happen in your street? - Which streets are targeted by parking attendants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537797Author Dimitry KochenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 22mm

John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins have invested their lives as champions of change. Maxwell's organizations EQUIP and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation have transformed communities by training more than five million leaders from literally every country...

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by...