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Constructive citizenship

Author: Jacks, L. P.
Published: Hodder and Stoughton, 0.

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Sex and citizenship

Author: Griffith, Edward F.
Published: 0.

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Life in the UK test. Practice questions : questions and answers for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This title features practice questions to make preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon and Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
132 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
1 reserve

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Life in the UK test. Study guide : the essential study guide for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon and Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
xxiv, 228 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm
2 reserves

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Life in the UK test. Handbook : everything you need to study for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical handbook makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2024 edition / edited by Henry Dillon & Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2024]
Published: ©2024
xxii, 172 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm
1 reserve

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The crisis of democratic capitalism / Martin Wolf.

Liberal democracy is in recession and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and spurned, even in democracy's notional heartlands. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views, offering a deep and lucid assessment of why the marriage between capitalism and democracy has grown so strained and making clear why a divorce would be an almost unthinkable calamity. Wolf argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth and productivity, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism remains the best system and that citizenship is not just a slogan or a romantic idea; it's the only concept that can save us.
Author: Wolf, Martin, 1946-
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2024.
496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

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Qaum, mulk, sultanat : citizenship and national belonging in Pakistan / Ali Usman Qasmi.

After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilisational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period.
Author: Qasmi, Ali Usman
Published: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2023.
444 pages.
South Asia in motion

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 320.54095491 - Available - 30111069737251

Life in the UK test. Handbook : everything you need to study for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical handbook makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2023 edition / edited by Henry Dillon & Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2023]
Published: ©2023
xxiv, 170 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm
2 reserves

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 323.620941 - On reserve shelf at St Pancras Library - 30111069507738

African American history : a very short introduction / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

This 'Very Short Introduction' covers the long sweep of African American history from the seventeenth century to the present. Throughout that long arc, this book traces shifting definitions of citizenship as they relate to race and highlights the deep paradox at the core of U.S. history: the interdependence of slavery and freedom. In so doing, Holloway examines key ideas that have shaped African American history, and the ways that these ideas circulate among both well-known figures and ordinary people.
Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
152 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Very short introductions

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The civic bargain : how democracy survives / Brook Manville, Josiah Ober.

Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country's system of governance is being 'tested' or is 'under attack.' But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In 'The Civic Bargain', Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a 'civic bargain' with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity. That bargain also requires them to fulfill the duties of democratic citizenship: governing themselves with no 'boss' except one another, embracing compromise, treating each other as civic friends, and investing in civic education for each rising generation.
Author: Manville, Brook, 1950-
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023.
312 pages ; 24 cm

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 321.80723 - Available - 30111069703790

We Are Respectful [electronic resource] / Theresa Emminizer

What does it mean to show respect in real life? Showing respect could look like saying "please" and "thank you." It could mean apologizing when you make a mistake or do something hurtful. One of the best ways to show respect is to honor someone's boundaries or listen to their feelings. Respect is a key tenet of citizenship, but it can be a difficult concept for little citizens to understand. Using helpful examples of how to apply this principle in everyday life, this book explains respect in a way that makes sense to young readers.
Author: Emminizer, Theresa
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 2022
1 online resource (1 text file)
Little Citizens
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Anthem / Noah Hawley.

The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clownface makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they know. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister's tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as The Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard, impregnated and imprisoned in a tower.
Author: Hawley, Noah
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
x, 429 pages ; 24 cm

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Life in the UK test. Study guide : the essential study guide for the British citizenship test

Life in the UK test. Handbook : everything you need to study for the British citizenship test

Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for anyone wanting to live permanently in Britain or become a British citizen. This practical study guide makes preparing for the test a lot easier.
2022 edition / edited by Henry Dillon & Alastair Smith.
Published: London : Red Squirrel Publishing, [2022]
Published: ©2022
xxiv, 170 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 21 cm

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The city of tears / Kate Mosse.

May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de' Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace.
Author: Mosse, Kate, 1961-
Published: London : Pan Books, 2022.
xvi, 543 pages ; 20 cm.
Burning chambers series

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We can do better than this : 35 voices on the future of LGBTQ+ rights / edited by Amelia Abraham.

How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future.'A vital addition to your bookshelf' Stylist, 5 Books for Summer'Captivating... A must-read' Gay Times, Books of the YearIn We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer this vital question, at a time when the queer community continues to suffer discrimination and extreme violence. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they present a powerful manifesto for how - together - we can change lives everywhere.'Powerful, inspiring...urgent' Attitude'Read and be inspired' Peter Tatchell'Illuminating' Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk'Friendly and fierce' Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar
Published: [London] : Vintage, 2022.
338 pages ; 20 cm

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The dying citizen : how progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization are destroying the idea of America / Victor Davis Hanson.

Most of human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects, or tribes. The concept of the 'citizen,' an idea we take for granted, is historically quite rare - and was, until recently, amongst America's most profoundly cherished ideals. But without shock treatment, warns historian and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson, American citizenship as we have known it for well over two centuries may soon vanish. In this book, Hanson outlines the forces that have brought us to the twilight of American citizenship, and led to the deeply fractured politics of the present era.
Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2022.
448 pages ; 21 cm

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 323.60973 - Available - 30111069567096

The city of tears [sound recording] / Kate Mosse.

June 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de' Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace.
Author: Mosse, Kate, 1961-
Unabridged edition
Published: Melbourne : Bolinda Audio, 2021.
14 CDs (16 hr., 43 min.) : digital, stereo.
Burning chambers series

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The city of tears / Kate Mosse.

June 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de' Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace.
Author: Mosse, Kate, 1961-
Published: London : Mantle, 2021.
xvi, 543 pages ; 24 cm.
Burning chambers series

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Slow burn / Stephen Leather.

There are thousands of jihadi brides in refugee camps in the Middle East. Some of them were once British before they were stripped of their citizenship. Were they brainwashed or simply naive when they set out for Syria as teenagers? And, if they were allowed to return, would they pose a threat to our country? Spider Shepherd is about to be sent on an extraordinary mission to the Syrian border by his MI5 boss. There he will have to decide which of the women he meets is still a threat, and if not, which of them has information useful to the Secret Service and can be allowed back. His are life or death decisions. But there is one bride he must take back to the UK whatever her circumstances. She is the wife of a notorious ISIS bombmaker, Salam Jaraf. Jaraf is an asylum seeker who has information on terrorist cells in Britain. But the bombmaker will only tell MI5 what he knows if his wife and son are brought to him. However, it soon becomes obvious that hostile forces are following Spider and Mrs Jaraf across Turkey. Bringing this woman back from the warzone will become one of the most dangerous missions Spider has ever undertaken.
Author: Leather, Stephen
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Spider Shepherd thrillers

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Voices of the Windrush generation : the real story told by the people themselves / David Matthews ; foreword by West Indies cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd.

With over 20 first-hand accounts from men, women, and children of Windrush, this work sheds light on the true impact of one of the most disastrous and damaging scandals in recent memory, and gives a platform to those most affected - those whose voices have yet to be truly heard. Their stories provide intimate, personal and moving perspective on what it means to be black in Britain today, and the heartache the 'hostile environment policy' our government has created has meant for those who have called this country home for half a century and more.
Author: Matthews, David, 1967-
Published: London : 535, 2020.
xiii, 241 pages ; 20 cm

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How to make a better world / written by Keilly Swift ; illustrated by Rhys Jefferys.

If you are a kid with big dreams and a passion for what is right, you're a world-changer in the making. There's a lot that can be changed by just one person, if you know what to do. Start by making yourself into the awesome person you want to be by learning all about self-care and kindness. Using those skills, work your way up to creating activist campaigns to tackle climate change or social injustice. This fun and inspiring guide to making the world a better place and becoming a good citizen is packed with ideas and tips for kids who want to know how to make a difference. Through ideas as small as creating a neighbourhood lending library to as important as public speaking and how to talk about politics, 'How to Make a Better World' is a practical guide to activism for awesome kids.
Author: Swift, Keilly
Published: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2020.
96 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm

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Coercive Control [electronic resource] : How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking. Drawing on court records, interviews, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from "beeper games" to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work. Stark urges us to move beyond the injury model and focus on the real victimization that allows men to violate women's human rights with impunity. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Coercive Control reframes abuse as a liberty crime rather than a crime of assault and points the way to bringing "real" equality for women in line with their formal rights to personhood and citizenship, freedom, and safety.
Author: Stark, Evan
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Tantor Audio, 2020
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Rules for everyone / written by Georgia Amson-Bradshaw ; illustrated by David Broadbent.

How can you be a good global citizen? By understanding the world we live in and how we can effect change. This book explores what rules are for, who makes the rules and how governments and power works in society. It helps children understand systems of democracy and how people have the ability to influence the rules of society. It features case studies on civil rights and activities to make campaign videos and organise a debate club.
Author: Amson-Bradshaw, Georgia
Published: London : Franklin Watts, 2019.
32 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm.
I'm a global citizen

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Life in the UK test. Practice questions : questions and answers for the British citizenship test

SPQR [electronic resource] : A History of Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord with us. And its debates about citizenship, security and the rights of the individual still influence our own debates on civil liberty today.SPQR is a new look at Roman history from one of the world's foremost classicists. It explores not only how Rome grew from an insignificant village in central Italy to a power that controlled territory from Spain to Syria, but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements, and why they are still important to us. Covering 1,000 years of history, and casting fresh light on the basics of Roman culture from slavery to running water, as well as exploring democracy, migration, religious controversy, social mobility and exploitation in the larger context of the empire, this is a definitive history of ancient Rome.SPQR is the Romans' own abbreviation for their state: Senatus Populusque Romanus, 'the Senate and People of Rome'.
Author: Beard, Mary
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2019
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Voices of the Windrush generation : the real story told by the people themselves / David Matthews.

With over 20 first-hand accounts from men, women and children of Windrush, this work sheds light on the true impact of one of the most disastrous and damaging scandals in recent memory, and gives a platform to those most affected - those whose voices have yet to be truly heard. Their stories provide intimate, personal and moving perspective on what it means to be black in Britain today, and the heartache the 'hostile environment policy' our government has created has meant for those who have called this country home for half a century and more.
Author: Matthews, David, 1967-
Published: London : Blink Publishing, [2018]
Published: ©2018
xiii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

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Dark at the Crossing [electronic resource] / Elliot Ackerman

"A contemporary love story set on the Turkish/Syrian border that explores loss, resilience, and second chances. Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who once translated for the American troops in exchange for US citizenship for himself and his sister, Haris yearns to return to Turkey and cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by two Syrian refugees in Gaziantep – Amir, a former Syrian revolutionary and his wife, Daphne, beautiful and sophisticated but haunted by grief. After learning that their young daughter was left behind in Syria, Haris and Daphne's individual quests are brought together, and they find themselves hatching a new plan to cross the border... Elliot Ackerman covered the Syrian Civil War for many years as a journalist, and has written a gripping, morally complex novel about the many lives intersecting on the border of Syria and Turkey, expertly capturing the brutality and pathos of a region caught in the frontlines of chaos and lawlessness. Praise for Green on Blue 'Harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing . . . Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love.' – Khaled Hosseini 'Haunting . . . Powerful . . . a bone-deep understanding of the toll that a seemingly endless war has taken on ordinary Afghans who have known no other reality for decades.' – Michiko Kakutani , New York Times 'In his deeply compelling and poetically rendered first novel, Elliot Ackerman goes where few, if any, Western novelists have gone before . . . one of the finest literary debuts I have ever witnessed.' – Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog 'What makes Green on Blue so brilliantly poignant is Elliot Ackerman's feeling of empathy, his ability to get under his characters' skin, reminding us not only of our vast differences but of our shared humanity.' – Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran A contemporary love story set on the Turkish/Syrian border that explores loss, resilience, and second chances. Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Iraqi who once translated for the American troops in exchange for US citizenship for himself and his sister, Haris yearns to return to Turkey and cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by two Syrian refugees in Gaziantep – Amir, a former Syrian revolutionary and his wife, Daphne, beautiful and sophisticated but haunted by grief. After learning that their young daughter was left behind in Syria, Haris and Daphne's individual quests are brought together, and they find themselves hatching a new plan to cross the border... Elliot Ackerman covered the Syrian Civil War for many years as a journalist, and has written a gripping, morally complex novel about the many lives intersecting on the border of Syria and Turkey, expertly capturing the brutality and pathos of a region caught in the frontlines of chaos and lawlessness. Praise for Green on Blue 'Harrowing, brutal, and utterly absorbing . . . Ackerman has spun a morally complex tale of revenge, loyalty, and brotherly love.' – Khaled Hosseini 'Haunting . . . Powerful . . . a bone-deep understanding of the toll that a seemingly endless war has taken on ordinary Afghans who have known no other reality for...
Author: Ackerman, Elliot
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Daunt Books, 2017
1 online resource (1 text file)
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