Product Description: As recent elections in Iran and Iraq have shown, the increasing diversity of religious practices around the world may redefine democracy as we know it—leaving many of us to wonder just how compatible religion and democracy really are...read more

Product Description: The Interdependence Handbook is a collection of essays, speeches, historical documents and discussion questions on interdependence, the principle for civic life in the 21st century. From a number of perspecitves, it explores the civic implications of the ubiquity of interdependence, and the urgent need for citizens to expand their sense of responsibility beyond community and nation to all the world's people if we are to choose a future that holds the promise of "liberty and justice for all...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive tool for understanding democracy and the central role that citizens play in making democracy work. Portions of the book are from the highly acclaimed Democracy is a Discussion handbooks. The book is an all-in-one introduction to both the theory and practice of democracy, aimed at upper-level high school and university students and civic-minded adults in both old and new democracies...read more

Jewish survivors of World War II tell the stories of some of the non-Jews who helped them escape the Nazis in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Norway, and Denmark