Citizen

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suzanne MettlerAmericans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding t...

Reducere. In this young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir Dear America, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Varga...

Reducere. Born in Rwanda, known as The Land of a Thousand Hills, Faustin Rusanganwa would have never thought he would one day become a refugee from his own c...

The first illustrated history to celebrate women's struggle for equality around the globe. One hundred years ago American women fought for and won ...

Reducere. "Richard Falk recounts a life well spent trying to bend the arc of international law toward global justice. A Don Quixote tilting nobly at real dra...

Reducere. A leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his timeJohnny Cash was an American icon, known for his leve...

How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mark Tewdwr-JonesIllustration(s): 5 Line drawings, black and white; 23 Halftones, black and white; 11 Tab...

Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new ch...

Reducere. By: Robert S. Davis, Jr., Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2019, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-169-8.More than 1, 700 citizens, 1, 000 Patriot soldiers, and ...

Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the link...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Detroit's Alpheus Starkey Williams never tired in service to his city or his country. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, he was a preeminent mi...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm--as well as a ti...

Publisher: Hansib Publications LimitedAuthor(s): Carl WrightNumber of pages: 348Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 25Cover type: Paperba...

Offers examples - from Hewlett Packard to Microsoft to British Petroleum - of companies whose shareholders have wielded their control in ways that ...

This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens...

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to ma...

Reducere. SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by cha...

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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, IncAuthor(s): Eva S. MoseleyNumber of pages: 430Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 31Cover type: ...

A groundbreaking volume from the president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club makes the profound argument that to preserve the environment, a...

DescriptionTop Cornell law professor Lynn Stout and her coauthors Tamara Belinfanti and Sergio Gramitto offer a visionary but practical proposal to...

Reducere. ``Cato, history's most famous foe of authoritarian power, was the pivotal political man of Rome; an inspiration to our Founding Fathers; and a caut...

Reducere. Following the 1948 war and the creation of the state of Israel, Palestinian Arabs comprised just fifteen percent of the population but held a much ...

Reducere. The General paints a moving portrait of a family man, a business man, a man of faith and a military man who loved his country.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Melbourne and University of Birmingham, 2013) issued under title: Becoming British: a migrant's ...

Reducere. Learn about Robotic Processing Automation (RPA) and how to build bots using UiPath. This book uses hands-on examples to explain the basics of UiPat...

Reducere. Many of the leaders and heroes of the Revolutionary War are well known to most Americans. Lesser known are those unsung heroes or citizen soldiers ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...

A reimagining of a turning point in Irish, American and European history. The story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald related by Tony Small - the runaway s...

DescriptionBernice Buttman is tough, crass, and hilarious, and she just might teach you a thing or two about empathy in this debut reminiscent of T...

DescriptionIn the thirty years since their immigration from Ethiopia to the State of Israel, Ethiopian-Israelis have put music at the center of com...

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Reducere. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian (University of Leeds, UK) CramNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 243 x ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

How can schools teach the skills required for a strong democracy to flourish? What Kind of Citizen? asks readers to imagine the kind of society the...

Reducere. Community Effects of Leadership Development Education: Citizen Empowerment for Civic Engagement, Paperback

DescriptionUsing dozens of vivid examples to show how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, ...

Reducere. Sovereignty, legalese, government, taxation, fraud, courts, law, legal, interpretation, freedom

From the Number One bestselling author of BAND OF BROTHERS comes the story of the ordinary soldiers in Northwest Europe from the day after D-Day un...

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Mushrooms are having a moment. A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life.--Library Journal Bierend write...

Reducere. Through people-to-people encounters, we expand our sense of mutual understanding and respect.Welcome Back to Abuja Once Again: How I Became a Citiz...

Reducere. The arrival of the participatory web 2.0 has been hailed by many as a media revolution, bringing with it new tools and possibilities for direct pol...

Reducere. American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationa...

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya's late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, an...

Reducere. "Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that es...

Reducere. American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationa...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): C RichNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 238 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James WallertIllustration(s): 7 Line drawings, black and white; 33 Halftones, black and white; 40 Illustr...

Social networking lies at the heart of a number of fascinating political questions and social concerns, including citizen competence, social moveme...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingIllustration(s): 34 Halftones, black and white; 61 Line drawings, black and whiteNumber of pages: 360Publicat...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Eve Hayes de KalafNumber of pages: 146Collection: Anthem Series in Citizenship and National IdentitiesPublication...

Reducere. "Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that es...

DescriptionConflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious e...

This fully updated, shorter Seventh Edition of Citizen Politics continues to offer the only truly comparative study of political attitudes and beha...

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's lega...

Reducere. A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically impr...

Matt Ryan draws on ten years of research to deliver this landmark comparative review of participatory budgeting, or collective decisions on spendin...

Reducere. In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. Called to th...

Reducere. This manual will assist any individual who finds themselves involved in a civil litigation and either cannot afford an attorney or chooses to not h...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Desmond MeadeNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 220 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softback...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make ...

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines ...

Reducere. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and ...

DescriptionBased on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a ...

Reducere. How many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth's 'carrying capacity' is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity...