Civics and citizenship

In Sound the Trumpet, Lawrence J.

Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties.

Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them.

Internationally acclaimed theologian Graham Ward is well known for his thoughtful engagement with postmodernism.

This reader contains a mixture of new narratives on suffrage, together with reinterpretations of some long-established "truths" about the campaign by British women for the vote.

Based on first-hand interviews, this is an in-depth look at the people under 35 years old who run for office in the US.

How do we prepare young people to understand the complex problems confronting our society and their place as citizens in shaping solutions?

This fascinating volume introduces an international audience to citizenship in Japan.

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process.

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process.

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film examines Mexican films of political conflict from the early studio Revolutionary films of the 1930-50s up to the campaigning Zapatista films of the 2000s.

What would the civic relationship between citizens in a socially cohesive society look like?

What would the civic relationship between citizens in a socially cohesive society look like?

Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film examines Mexican films of political conflict from the early studio Revolutionary films of the 1930-50s up to the campaigning Zapatista films of the 2000s.

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements.

How do we prepare young people to understand the complex problems confronting our society and their place as citizens in shaping solutions?

This work will provide an authoritative and illuminating overview of the U.

This title gives students and other users a clear understanding of the true state of voting and representative democracy in the United States by impartially examining claims surrounding voter fraud, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other voting-related issues in the U.

This work provides a concise, authoritative, and illuminating overview of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

This A-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Liberty Bell in American culture.

This invaluable resource investigates U.

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature.

Examines voting trends and political representation in the United States today-with a special focus on debates over voting rights, voter fraud, and voter suppression-and election rules and regulations, including those related to gerrymandering, campaign fundraising, and other controversial subjects.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

Provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and political observers who want a comprehensive picture of the past and present of the U.

This book will serve as a scientifically accurate yet easy-to-read introduction to birth control for teens and young adults.

This book gives readers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of the Civil Rights Movement-arguably the most important political movement of the 20th century-and provides a road map for future study and historical inquiry.

This book examines the narratives and collective emotions of diaspora groups who originate from Turkey and now live in Australia, focusing on their experiences of collective victimhood, competitive victimhood, and intergroup emotions in relation to other diaspora groups from Turkey.

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Since the 1960s, ideas developed during the civil rights movement have been astonishingly successful in fighting overt discrimina-tion and prejudice.

Now in a comprehensively updated edition, this indispensable handbook analyzes how international humanitarian law has evolved in the face of these many new challenges.

Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, The Shadows of Youth provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who-under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-challenged the way Americans think about civil rights, politics, and moral obligation in an unjust democracy.

The promise of America has always been creative potential: enterprise, industry, optimism, idealism, and hope.

From the earliest meetings of the Civil Rights Movement to offering the benediction for the first African American President of the United States, Rev.

In these times many people feel that their cherished religious values are held hostage by the forces of secularization and that, as a consequence, society is morally bankrupt.

More and more young adults have opted out of Christianity and the church.

A number of features of the contemporary period are preventing people from exercising their citizenship: the acceleration and permanent change in the conditions shaping habitability of planet Earth, the digital and techno-scientific revolution, the rise of religious and political radicalisation, the explosion of social inequalities, the hegemony of the economic drive to maximise individual interests, etc.

By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women tackles womens-rights-as-human-rights decades before the women's suffrage movement began.

Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder-Michael Savage has the cure.

Sick of the total BS of rampant PC?