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"Prominently featured photos, artwork, and other visual elements will guide young adult readers through this lively, informative exploration of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history."--
Bieschke guides readers through the art and history of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history. Though little recorded history exists for events before the mid-1600s, anti-colonial...
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Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This book explores America's history of using the Bible in politics, highlighting moments of proper practice and examples of deep misuse, and helps us apply the Scriptures in our political participation"--
In June 2020, after the killing of George Floyd, President Donald Trump posed with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC. For many, the scene epitomized the relationship between scripture and politics: the Bible is a prop,...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, ©1971
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English
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Guides young revolutionaries in the art of human communication and explains the tactics of organizing others to work within the system for social change.
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction...
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Syncretic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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RESUMEN: "En Estados Unidos, cuatro de cada diez ciudadanos habilitados para votar no participan en las elecciones presidenciales. De los seis que sí votan, tres votan en contra del presidente electo. En definitiva, el presidente llega al gobierno porque lo votan tres de cada diez cuidadanos. En las elecciones legislativas de "midterm", estas proporciones son aun más alarmantes: seis de cada diez ciudadanos no participan y, de los cuatro que sí...
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"From the hosts of New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics 101 and New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro, a lively crash course in everything you should know about how the US government works. Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Are you sure you know the difference between the House and the Senate? Have you been pretending you know what Federalism is for the last 20 years? Don't worry--you're not alone. The American government and its processes...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"An examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become very popular. Grievance needn't be bad. But what happens when people take their grievances to...
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Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confirms what advocates of civic engagement have long hypothesized: that strengthening the networks between government and civil society and increasing citizen participation...
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