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158 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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"El Curso de ciudadanía americana te preparará para aprobar la entrevista de ciudadanía y el examen vigente actualmente de 100 preguntas, enseñándote todo lo que debes saber para poder integrarte definitivamente en este gran país que nos ha recibido. Creado por un equipo de editores con gran experiencia en el proceso de naturalización, el Curso de ciudadanía americana te preparará intensivamente a través del presente libro. Y también, gratis...
2) We can vote
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Introduces the reader on the process of voting"--
3) Citizenship
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English
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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.
5) Citizenship
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24 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Teaches young readers what citizenship is and how being a good citizen makes a community a better place.
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ix, 419 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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 The Dying Citizen,...
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Did you know that American laws protect all people who live in America, even people who are not citizens? This book describes in clear language the rights that citizens and non-citizens have. Learn about different ways that people become citizens, how citizenship works, and how immigration plays a role in our society today.
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662 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
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English
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There's actually nothing easy about U.S. immigration law, but this book explains it in the plainest possible English, covering both eligibility for U.S. visas and green cards and the practical requirements of obtaining them. Useful for would-be immigrants and those who assist them.
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356 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
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English
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This complete guide to becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen helps applicants make sure they are eligible for citizenship, understand the risks of applying, how to interview successfully and how to study for the citizenship exam.
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English
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"Citizenship is a like the air we breathe; it's all around us but often goes unnoticed. That is not a historically ordinary situation. Citizenship was once an exceptional status, a kind of aristocracy of the ancient world in which freedom and political voice were not taken for granted. Even as the nation-state emerged as the primary form of human association, citizenship remained an anomalous status, reserved for the few who were privileged as such...
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191 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The acclaimed, award-winning novelist -- author of The Moor's Account and The Other Americans -- now gives us a bracingly personal work of nonfiction that is concerned with the experiences of "conditional citizens." What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration...
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"Building on his own extensive experience as a writer and activist on various aspects of inner and institutional life, Parker J. Palmer explores the soulful dynamics of American politics. What he did for educators in The Courage to Teach he does for citizens here, exploring the dynamics of our inner lives for clues to reclaiming our national unity. In Healing the Heart of Democracy, he points the way to a politics worthy of the human spirit, rooted...
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xi, 83 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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The story of the African American journey from slavery to freedom usually begins with heroic abolitionists, peaks with emancipation during the Civil War, and trails off amid Reconstruction's violence. Here, historian Stephen Kantrowitz redefines our understanding of this entire era by showing that the fight to abolish slavery was always part of a much broader campaign by African Americans to claim full citizenship and to remake the white republic...
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335 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"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...
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xiv, 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm + 3 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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English
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New full-color edition with three audio CDs prepares students for the civics and English requirements of the new U.S. citizenship test. It also serves as a basic course for students enrolled in adult EL/Civics programs.
High interest-low vocabulary books.
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xxi, 98 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating collection, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham has gathered Jefferson's most powerful and provocative reflections on the subject, drawn from public speeches and documents as well...
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