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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Citizens Pamphlet Series
Author: Citizen's Pamphlet Series
Author: Preparing for the United States Naturalization Test
Author: The United States Citizenship and Immigration ServicesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510750649
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A reference manual for all immigrants looking to become citizens This pocket study guide will help you prepare for the naturalization test. If you were not born in the United States, naturalization is the way that you can voluntarily become a US citizen. To become a naturalized U.S. citizen, you must pass the naturalization test. This pocket study guide provides you with the civics test questions and answers, and the reading and writing vocabulary to help you study. Additionally, this guide contains over fifty civics lessons for immigrants looking for additional sources of information from which to study. Some topics include: · Principles of American democracy · Systems of government · Rights and representation · Colonial history · Recent American history · American symbols · Important holidays · And dozens more topics!
A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Author: John ZerilliPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262044811
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy. Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home-owners, students, educators, patients, clients, prison inmates, members of ethnic and sexual minorities, voters in liberal democracies? This book offers a concise overview of moral, political, legal and economic implications of AI. It covers the basics of AI's latest permutation, machine learning, and considers issues including transparency, bias, liability, privacy, and regulation.
A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Author: Jason PrincePublisher:
ISBN: 9781551647791
Category : LAW
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Eric Shragge taught community organizing and development at Concordia and now works with Mostafa Henaway as an organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre. Jason Prince is an urban planner and social economy expert who teaches at Concordia University in Montreal,
A Citizen's Guide to Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Author: Christopher C. HarmonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134662718
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This Citizen’s Guide addresses the public policy issues of terrorism and counterterrorism in the United States after Bin Laden’s death. Written for the thinking citizen and student alike, this succinct and up-to-date book takes a "grand strategy" approach toward terrorism and uses examples and issues drawn from present-day perpetrators and actors. Christopher Harmon, a veteran academic of military theory who has also instructed U.S. and foreign military officers, organizes his book into four sections. He first introduces the problem of America’s continued vulnerability to terrorist attack by reviewing the long line of recent attacks and attempts against the U.S., focusing specifically on New York City. Part II examines the varied ways in which the U.S. is already fighting terrorism, highlighting the labors of diverse experts, government offices, intelligence and military personnel, and foreign allies. The book outlines the various aspects of the U.S. strategy, including intelligence, diplomacy, public diplomacy, economic counterterrorism, and law and law-making. Next, Harmon sketches the prospects for further action, steering clear of simple partisanship and instead listing recommendations with pros and cons and also including factual stories of how individual citizens have made a difference in the national effort against terrorism. This concise book will contribute to our understanding of the problems surrounding terrorism and counterterrorism—and the approaches the United States may take to meet them—in the early 21st century
A Citizen’s Guide to the Rule of Law
Author: Adis Nicolaidis, Kalypso MerdzanovicPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3838215419
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In our daily lives, the rule of law matters more than anything and yet remains an invisible presence. We trust in the rule of law to protect us from governmental overreach, mafia godfathers, or the will of the majority. We take the rule of law for granted, often failing to recognize its demise—until it is too late. For under attack it is, not only in the growing number of authoritarian countries around the world but in Europe, too. As a citizen’s guide, this book explains in plain language what the rule of law is, why it matters, and why we have to defend it. The starting point is to ask why EU efforts to promote the rule of law in candidate countries have succeeded or failed, and what this tells us about what is happening inside the EU. The authors move on to suggest ways of strengthening the rule of law in Europe and beyond. This book is a call to action in defense of the most precious human invention of all time.
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success
Author: Mark JaccardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479375
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.
Citizen's Handbook to Influencing Elected Officials
Author: Bradford FitchPublisher: The Capitol Net Inc
ISBN: 1587332329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
One part research studies, one part interviews and focus groups, and one part experience, this text provides practical guidance on preparing for and meeting with elected officials and staff, writing effective letters and e-mails to elected officials, and strategies for influencing legislators face to face.
The Citizen's Guide to Planning
Author: Christopher DuerksenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135117794X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understanding of the basics of planning. Now the authors have revised this perennial bestseller into a 21st-century guide for anyone who wants to make his or her community a better place. This book describes the land-use planning process, the key players in that process, and the legal framework in which decisions are made. The authors advocate principles and disciplines that will help those involved in the process make good decisions. In easy-to-understand language, they offer nuts-and-bolts information about different types of plans and how they are implemented. Chapters cover the goals and values of planning, the history of planning, the different people and organizations involved, the creation and implementation of a comprehensive plan, sustainability, the application review process, and legal and ethical questions.