Civics and citizenship

A volume of essays by Japan's leading female scholars and activists exploring their country's recent progressive cultural shift.

"e;A richly documented analysis of the post-Soviet nexus between religion, nationalism, and nuclear weapons .

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you thinkif you learn to think like a commoner The biggest "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

There has been a growing chorus of political analysts with doomsday predictions of an American public that is uncivil, disengaged, and alienated.

There has been a growing chorus of political analysts with doomsday predictions of an American public that is uncivil, disengaged, and alienated.

Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today's campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels.

Campaigns on the Cutting Edge evaluates the current trends of today's campaigns and assesses the innovative changes these well-tuned organizations are making on the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial levels.

American Democracy in Peril encapsulates the tumultuous state of American politics.

American Democracy in Peril encapsulates the tumultuous state of American politics.

Encourage your child to pay attention to national news and events to better understand social, economic and political situations.

This ebook will serve as an excellent introduction or refresher on the United States civics.

A battle cry to rise up against the ACLU's attempts to destroy our freedom of religion-from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Obama Nation.

This powerful and empowering text offers a way forward for alleviating human suffering, presenting a realistic roadmap for enhanced global governance that can create workable solutions to mass poverty.

In the past migrations opened the world to knowledge, science, and understanding among peoples, but increasingly migrants are viewed with disfavour and even hate, especially in the Mediterranean Basin and the MENA Region.

Due to Greece's geographical position and socio-political background, the country is at the heart of the migration phenomenon.

It is established that as a ratified State of international human rights treaties the respective State should comply with its commitments and implement those rights giving effectiveness into domestic laws.

There are approximately 640 million surface acres of federally owned land in the United States.

From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes the third book in an exciting middle grade series about a scrawny fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom.

From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes the second book in an exciting new middle grade series about a scrawny fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom.

From the critically acclaimed author of Amina's Voice comes the first book in an exciting new middle grade series about a fourth-grader with big dreams of basketball stardom.

See Jack worship; Pray, pray, pray!

Pope Paul VI's notion of "e;integral human development,"e; which was endorsed by his successors including Pope Francis, broke with the modern project of purely economic and technological development, resulting in an original understanding of development.

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At a moment in which interest in political theology is rising, acceptance of a public role for religion is declining, and cynicism regarding both political and religious institutions is overflowing, this book investigates the possibilities and constraints of a Christian political theology that can meaningfully mediate Scripture, doctrine, and political reality.

This book offers a reflection on the development of the commitment of a group of Catholic Sisters to the poor and to social justice, from teaching poor children in a convent basement to being involved in public theology at the United Nations.

From 1949 to 1989, Germany was divided into West and East Germany.

Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "e;technique"e; and bureaucracy?

In a time of political turmoil, how should we pray?

Peter Chaadaev (1794-1856) is rightfully considered to be one of the forerunners of modern Russian philosophy.

Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk (1787-1859) was one of the most interesting and challenging figures of Hasidism in the nineteenth century.

It is well known that energy is a fundamental concept in physics.

This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS.

How is it that the person who created and defined the field of Black Studies and drafted Dr.

Lightly tracing his personal experiences growing up in the Bible Belt as a born-again Christian, James A.

How do indigenous matters inform, irritate and advance postcolonial theologies and postcolonial biblical criticisms?

Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans.

Here is what the US core citizens (the family) can accomplish with help from Keep Voting, America: Have a better understanding of how the United States evolved.

It's Time to Share the Dream.

It's Time to Share the Dream.

The word 'refugee' is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people.

This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion.

This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion.

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in the South's largest cities.

At a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship.

At a time of rising populism and debate about immigration, leading legal academic Jo Shaw sets out to review interactions between constitutions and constructs of citizenship.

An activist and an actor reflect on Edward Snowden and the surveillance state in this collection that "e;reads like a whistleblower's travel diary"e; (Disorient).

Originally published between 1860-2 in the journal "e;Vremya"e;, "e;The House of the Dead"e; is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky about life in a Siberian prison camp.