Civics and citizenship

"e;Few are agnostic about atheism and agnosticism; this eloquent, wide-ranging volume should appeal to many, as well as supporting recent academic interest in its subject.

The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry the Electoral College.

Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education.

School shootings are on the increase and it often seems like another shooting is just a matter of time.

The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

Why Are You Here?

Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster.

Greater Freedom offers a groundbreaking long-term community study of Wilson County, North Carolina.

This book updates prior research that utilized the perceptions of criminal investigators of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), and compares these perceptions with immigration enforcement priorities that were implemented post 911, through the Obama Administration up to the Trump presidency.

Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

The world needs a UN 3.

The end of the post-World War II 'long boom' in the mid-1970s proved the beginning of a process of political-economic change that has fundamentally transformed labour law, both in Australia and across the developed world more generally.

This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice.

Large sections of democracy and its basic structures have recently been hijacked.

Winner of the 2019 Edgar S.

Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions.

This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective.

Latin American History through its Art and Literature uses 2,000 years of Latin American history as the organizing theme, and then explores that history through the words of the writer, the brush of the painter, the pen of the cartoonist, and the lens of the photographer.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians].

This book argues that vegetarian and vegan people should be guaranteed the right to eat according to their beliefs.

Studying Charles Tilly (1929-2008), American sociologist, historian and political scientist, is essential for understanding political change and social conflict.

Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain.

From the author:When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the greater world beyond the Lesesne Gate.

The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882.

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe.

This book is a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

The End of French Rule in Cameroon is a study of the decolonization movement in Cameroon.

Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and Thereafter offers students the opportunity to learn more about important and often overlooked figures of the Civil Rights Movement.

This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language.

In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.

In the "e;tribal moment in American politics,"e; which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall).

Why might some students convert their political interests into activism when others do not?

Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides.

Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron?

Can activism be considered a leisure activity?

Can activism be considered a leisure activity?

This single-volume work provides a concise, up-to-date, and reliable reference work that students, teachers, and general readers can turn to for a comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement-a period of time incorporating events that shaped today's society.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron?