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1) Citizenship
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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The What I Value series demonstrates the impact that positive values have on individuals, families, and communities. Every title in the K–2 Lightbox program is designed to inspire beginning readers to become independent readers. The titles promote literacy and fluency through a focus on key concepts and sight words. All sight and content words used in a title are listed for quick reference on page 24.
2) Citizenship
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Citizenship offers emergent readers an introduction to the rules for being a good citizen and explains the basics about how someone becomes a U.S. citizen.
3) Citizenship
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Citizenship is an important issue, and becoming a more informed and active citizen is part of growing up. This guide examines what it means to be a citizen in the United States. It explains the ways people become citizens, the responsibilities of a citizen, and the rights of U.S. citizens. Readers can form their own opinions on citizenship by reading engaging discussion questions, sidebars, and fact boxes. In addition, they can better understand the...
4) Citizenship
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The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world.
Kochenov offers a critical...
5) Citizenship
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Concepts in American government brought to you in a kid-friendly, graphic/cartoon format, with irreverent art and concise text.
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The English second edition of Citizenship Study Guide provides all that you need to know to succeed on your U.S. Citizenship Test and Interview. This condensed learning tool was designed by a teacher of the U.S. Naturalization process with more than 30 years' experience.
This guide assists future Citizenship Test-takers to memorize the civic concepts of the United States through repetition and visualization. The end of the book presents a series...
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Frederick Cooper is professor of history at New York University. His many books include Empires in World History and Citizenship between Empire and Nation (both Princeton).
A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present day
Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference offers a concise and sweeping overview of citizenship's complex evolution, from ancient Rome to the present. Political leaders...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Demonstrates the game-changing power of citizenship. Through action-filled stories, captivating spreads, and a character-building quiz, readers will consider their own character and be encouraged to take it to the next level.
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What defines a citizen? Who can become one? Does the creation of new citizens benefit a country or threaten it? All democracies grapple with questions about who should or should not become citizens of their countries. But not all countries answer these questions in the same ways. The benefits of democracy can be found in every part of the globe. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist ideology in 1991, democracy has been touted as...
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Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It is striking to observe the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a period of 2,500 years and to learn how those ideals and institutions traveled over space and time, from the ancient Mediterranean to early modern France, England, and America.
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Over forty years after it first appeared, T.H. Marshall's seminal essay on citizenship and social class in post-war Britain has acquired the status of a classic. His lucid analysis of the principal elements of citizenship – namely, the possession of civil, political and social rights – is as relevant today as it was when it first appeared.
It is reissued here with a new and complementary monograph by Tom Bottomore in which the meaning of...
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Inspire today's young readers to become tomorrow's leaders with this educational and empowering collection.
Prepare kids to become active participants in democracy with these five picture books on U.S. government. This collection includes Free for You and Me, If I Ran for President, If I Were President, The Supreme Court and Us, and A Vote Is a Powerful Thing.
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Sigal Ben-Porath is assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education and special assistant to the president at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She earned her doctoral degree in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000.
Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest...
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Yossi Harpaz is affiliated with Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center, in addition to his role as assistant professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.
Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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This book challenges readers to examine their roles as citizens of the United States, Texas, and local communities. Exploring the Texas Bill of Rights, students will grasp the basic rights and responsibilities of Texas citizens. To deepen their understanding of citizenship, readers will learn how the U.S. and Texas governments function, and what sets Texas government apart. Readers will walk away with a greater understanding of what it means to be...
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This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada's "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party's seat-share does not exceed its vote-share....
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Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.
All citizens in a democracy are promised the same guaranteed rights, but should they have the same obligations? Should minorities with different attitudes toward the state be obliged to do national service in the name of equality? And what are the social and political consequences for minorities not given the opportunity to serve? This groundbreaking study examines...
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In Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know, legal scholar Peter J. Spiro explains citizenship through accessible terms and questions: what citizenship means, how you obtain citizenship (and how you lose it), how it has changed through history, what benefits citizenship gets you, and what obligations it extracts from you-all in comparative perspective. He addresses how citizenship status affects a person's rights and obligations, what it means to...
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While Karl Barth is one of the most significant theologians of the twentieth century, his contribution to ethics is less well known and subject to controversy among interpreters. Barth combined his commitment to the church and its particular task in faith and theology with a concern for ethics and politics in wider society. By examining the historical development of Barth's ethics, this study traces the vital influences and considerable shifts in...
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What does it mean to be a citizen in the 21st century? Globalization, the dominance of corporations, the influence of technology, massive immigration, and geopolitical shifts have changed our world considerably in just a few decades. How have these changes affected the responsibilities placed on us as citizens and also on governments and leaders around the world? Tackling a number of fascinating issues pertaining to our future, the viewpoints in this...
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