We Are Citizens, Paperback

Reducere. In Nest City, Beth Sanders argues that our linear ways of thinking about, organizing and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Church's work of evangelization and its contribution to the good of society are inseparable. As Catholics and as American citizens, ...

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Clare O'DeaCross-cultural journalist Clare O'Dea goes in search of the truth behind the 10 clich s that clothe modern Switz...

Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative gove...

Reducere. We is an earth shattering dystopian novel that ruffled the feathers of the ruling elite of Russia when it was smuggled out of the country and publi...

Reducere. In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about th...

DescriptionWhat are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen a...

Reducere. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon answered the call to arms. This was most evident at the Battle of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter KageyamaThe mutual love affair between people and their place is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, ye...

Reducere. Written late in his career and while at the height of his powers, KNOCK-THREE-ONE-TWO is Fredric Brown's tour de force of suspense. Taking place ov...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsUSA Best Books Award WINNER - 2013 ForeWord's Book of the Year Award FINALIST - 2013 In a free and peaceful society where so many ha...

Reducere. This book, first published in 1969, is widely regarded as one of the best studies of Rousseau's thought in any language. In it, Professor Shklar ex...

Star Seeds, Et's and Star Beings is a comprehensive guide for Star Seeds, helping them to understand themselves and why they are here on Earth. Pau...

Reducere. This book is about decisions. Not the everyday kind such as "What should I wear today?" or "Where shall we eat tonight?" but decisions that deal wi...

Reducere. What if the apocalypse already happened and you just didn't notice? That's one of the central questions of Silverfish, a novel that details a slice...

Reducere. More than 1.5 million North Carolinians today live in poverty. More than one in five are children. Behind these sobering statistics are the faces o...

Reducere. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built the American economy and helped shape our democratic creed. Driver's ed made teenagers into citize...

Reducere. Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and te...

During most of life's journey, we rarely give thought to the time when we will be senior citizens. When it suddenly arrives, some of us are anxious...

Reducere. "We have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard, practical reality." --A. W. TozerReaders love ...

"The first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it." -- Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"The best, most com...

Reducere. In Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical conce...

Reducere. Effective elected leaders can make a huge difference in their communities; conversely those elected who are ineffective can create significant and ...

Reducere. What VEHICLE did we climb aboard that carried us so far from our cultural roots? How did the vast changes to society, our social framework and our ...

DescriptionCitizenship is at the heart of our contemporary world but it is a particular vision of national citizenship forged in the French Revolut...

Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a pla...

Reducere. It is often said that quantum technologies are poised to change the world as we know it, but cutting through the hype, what will quantum technologi...

Reducere. DescriptionGet the INSIDE SCOOP on how government really works from an aerospace engineer reluctantly turned state senator Career politicians in bo...

Reducere. DescriptionNursery Rhymes for Social Good takes classic songs and poems and gives them new purpose, encouraging children everywhere to learn about ...

Reducere. WE THE PRESIDENTS explores how American presidents over the last century, from Warren G. Harding to Donald Trump, have shaped today's issues. Every...

Reducere. The near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the pre...

DescriptionThis book asks how we--as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers--can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take bac...

DescriptionIn the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypa...

Reducere. The soldiers came with the storm. Our people didn't stand a chance. But we were lucky.Under darkening skies, a group of teens must fight to survive...

Reducere. ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRAND AND JOE HARDY MISSION: To investigate a string of false hurricane warnings -- and subsequent burglaries -- that are ...

Reducere. DescriptionLet's start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available...

Reducere. The Way of The Linguist, A language learning odyssey. It is now a clich that the world is a smaller place. We think nothing of jumping on a plane t...

Reducere. If every known species on Earth were a leaf on a tree, that tree would have 1 750 000 leaves. Since humans count for just one leaf on the tree, we ...

A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations t...

Reducere. We have all heard of people talking about a doomsday, or watched the TV show Doomsday Preppers. We have heard people called "Preppers", or "What If...

Reducere. ``In America, black is a country, `` declared Amiri Baraka, who insisted that the lives and destinies of the nation's white and black citizens are ...

Reducere. Too often, citizens fail to remember the challenges of government by consent, and fail to appreciate the freedom from authoritarianism that we enjo...

Reducere. In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status ...

Reducere. Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like ...

Reducere. The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own f...

Reducere. Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Mor...

Reducere. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti are co-hosts of Rising at The Hill TV, one of the fastest growing political shows in America. Theirs is the only boo...

The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the foun...

DescriptionWhile the modern world is rapidly making us into "global citizens, " we experience increasing isolation as individuals in our own societ...

For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the...

Reducere. Are we living under a two-tiered system of justice? Why do the wealthy and powerful escape prosecution for their crimes? Why is there so much pain ...

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review. From the COV...

DescriptionSimilar to the bestselling Sociopath Next Door comes a unique look at the psychopaths among us and how our society--from businesses and ...

Reducere. A deeply affecting work from one of the important and innovative voices in American health and medicine. -- Arianna Huffington In Well, physician S...

Reducere. Does what we are capable of doing define us as human beings? If this basic anthropological assumption is true, where can that leave those with inte...

Reducere. The title" Result of Ignorance" is in reference to the lack of knowledge or for having knowledge but ignoring. All the information is in reference ...

Reducere. DescriptionHow do we help language learners--those whose primary language is not the language of instruction--become resourceful, motivated, and st...

We build border walls to keep danger out. But do we understand the danger posed by walls themselves? East Germans were the first to give the crisis...

DescriptionMoney is power. It shapes our world in ways that can leave the mind reeling. Indeed, the bank crisis and subsequent recession made clear...

Reducere. No man fails on purpose. Quite the opposite. When our feet hit the floor every morning, we're looking for a win.But these are turbulent times to be...

Reducere. Does injustice have an expiration date? Is it possible to wipe the slate clean of crimes of such magnitude, simply because the victims who suffered...

Reducere. Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life- and faith-transforming experience. It can enrich the way we view the world. It can cause us to r...

DescriptionThis book examines the architectural achievements of the Egyptian pyramid builders and how they may have accomplished those deeds. Many ...

AA Files 76 is structured as a glossary of terms relevant to contemporary debate in architecture. Each entry has been contributed by a different au...

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This te...

Reducere. In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and chal...

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to be e...

Could a community without a central government avoid descending into chaos and rampant criminality? Could its economy grow and thrive without the i...

Reducere. How are we evolving the human hive? 60% of humanity now lives in cities. Can city dwellers, like bees who pollinate the fields, act so intelligentl...