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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text explores citizenship, showing readers how seemingly unrelated actions, such as planting a tree or joining a cause can create a community.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 11 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
While once a dormant issue in Thailand, the inability to gain citizenship has developed into a problem that affects over 400,000 people in its low-income mountain regions. Recognizing citizenship among a nation is a basic human right, however the people of the mountain region - referred to as "Hill Tribes" - are facing a crisis that has led to the growth of trafficking of woman and children. In A Right to Belong, various Hill Tribe individuals discuss...
Author
Publisher
APEX Test Prep
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
76 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
This includes testing tips, straightforward instruction, comprehensive material, practice questions, and detailed answer explanations. All these are used to help study for the USCIS Naturalization Civics exam.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains, with electrifying clarity, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults, nationalist movements, or one-party states. Across the world today, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country - or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed - and wake up the folks back home. In another...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She's moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and...
8) Borders
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US Edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy and his mother refuse to identify themselves as American or Canadian at the border and become caught in the limbo between nations when they claim their citizenship as Blackfoot.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 83 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the voice of one of the most iconic and beloved political figures of the twentieth century comes a book on citizenship for the future voters of the twenty-first century. Eleanor Roosevelt published the original edition of When You Grow Up to Vote in 1932, the same year her husband was elected president. The new edition has updated information and back matter as well as fresh, bold art from award-winning artist Grace Lin. Beginning with government...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"How to trace your Native American heritage" teaches how to search out your Native American ancestors, obtain tribal citizenship, how to research the Dawes Rolls and discover your heritage.
Author
Series
American crossroads volume 31
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
[paperback edition]
Physical Desc
xiv, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of speeches by historian David McCullough reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, as many Americans engage in self-reflection following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his...
13) The politics
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority, and not the minority. In The Politics, he defines various institutions and how they should operate within an established system.
The Politics provides an analysis of contemporary government as it relates to all people. Aristotle discusses the positive and negative qualities of authority and how they affect...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min. 21 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the 1967 Referendum and the fight for citizenship rights for Aborigines. It marks the 40th anniversary of the occasion, celebrating its historical significance and contemporary relevance. "The referendum was a point that gave incredible uplift and joy to Aboriginal people right across this country. In that sense we did gain something from it. But if you looked at it from that point on, I just say that we never took another step...
15) Squire
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
From two incredible rising talents comes the fantasy graphic novel Molly Knox Ostertag calls "instantly compelling." Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and as a member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist...
16) Just say yes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jimena Ramos had no idea she was undocumented. Now she's seventeen, and shee needs to figure out a way to stay in New York City, the only home she can remember. There's just one possibility that will get her a green card quickly enough: Jimena is going to find an American to marry her. She's got one excellent candidate: Vitaly, her next-door neighbor and friend, the only person she trusts with her secret. But Vitaly's got his own plans for the future....
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a Jewish girl, connect in an after school cooking club and bond over food and their mothers' struggles to become United States citizens.
18) The republic
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A translation of the famous work of political philosophy.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In Breaking Through Power, Ralph Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment, and the quality of...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor--The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly "Anonymous" official is back with bombshell revelations and...
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