Renewing Democracy in Young America

With a government plagued by systemic ills and deep ideological divides, democracy, as we know it, is in jeopardy. Yet, ironically, voter apathy remains prevalent and evidence suggests standard civic education has done little to instill a sense of civic duty in the American public. While some are waiting for change to come from within, trying to influence already polarized voters, or counting down the days until the "next election," leading child and adolescent development experts Daniel Hart and James Youniss are looking to another solution: America's youth.In Renewing Democracy in Young America, Hart and Youniss examine the widening generation gap, the concentration of wealth in pockets of the US, and the polarized political climate, and they arrive at a compelling solution to some of the most hotly contested issues of our time. The future of democracy depends on the American people seeing citizenship as a long-term psychological identity, and thus it is critical that youth have the opportunity to act as citizens during the time of their identity formation. Proposing that 16- and 17-year-olds be able to vote in municipal elections and suggesting that schools create science-based, community-oriented environmental engagement programs, the authors expound that by engaging youth through direct citizen-participatory experiences, we can successfully create active and committed citizens. Political scientists, media commentators, and citizens alike agree that democratic processes are broken across the nation, but we cannot stop at simply showing that our political system is dysfunctional. Refreshingly lucid and unabashedly hopeful, Renewing Democracy in Young America is an impeccably timed call to action.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hart, Daniel

Youniss, James

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

With a government plagued by systemic ills and deep ideological divides, democracy, as we know it, is in jeopardy. Yet, ironically, voter apathy remains prevalent and evidence suggests standard civic education has done little to instill a sense of civic duty in the American public. While some are waiting for change to come from within, trying to influence already polarized voters, or counting down the days until the "next election," leading child and adolescent development experts Daniel Hart and James Youniss are looking to another solution: America's youth. In Renewing Democracy in Young America, Hart and Youniss examine the widening generation gap, the concentration of wealth in pockets of the US, and the polarized political climate, and they arrive at a compelling solution to some of the most hotly contested issues of our time. The future of democracy depends on the American people seeing citizenship as a long-term psychological identity, and thus it is critical that youth have the opportunity to act as citizens during the time of their identity formation. Proposing that 16- and 17-year-olds be able to vote in municipal elections and suggesting that schools create science-based, community-oriented environmental engagement programs, the authors expound that by engaging youth through direct citizen-participatory experiences, we can successfully create active and committed citizens. Political scientists, media commentators, and citizens alike agree that democratic processes are broken across the nation, but we cannot stop at simply showing that our political system is dysfunctional. Refreshingly lucid and unabashedly hopeful, Renewing Democracy in Young America is an impeccably timed call to action.

Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task - to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, Jameson has learned a terrible secret. Desperate to relay this information to the highest level of the American government, Jameson enlists the aid of journalist Cat Early. Caught up in chaotic events that neither could have imagined, the pair struggle to have their voices heard in the tumult of a world on the brink of catastrophic global warfare. Only one man seemingly holds the power to bring peace - the charismatic world leader Azul Dante.

Numbers Book 3

Literature & Fiction

Abraham, Ken

Contemporary

HODDER STOUGHTON RELIGIOUS

For some the End Times are just the beginning...  On just another Sunday, a man joins a group of friends for a golf game.  A working mother, trying to balance career and home, skips weekly services.  An Internet junkie scours the Web looking for some comforting news but finds only unrest.  Ordinary people who live their lives in an unsettled time, like most too overwhelmed by their own concerns to register the groundswell of changes taking place everywhere-until the instance when millions around the world disappear.  Immediately, life after the Rapture becomes a chaotic battle for survival.  Into the void steps Azul Dante, the charismatic leader of the Prodigal Project.  He shines a light in the darkness of the End Times, his new world order representing a return to the promised land of the past.   And in the beginning, seven hopeful men and women set out separately to find salvation in the Prodigal Project.  Instead, they initiate a series of personal trials that will ultimately prove to be the sternest test of their souls...

Genesis

Abrahaiti, Ken

Penguin Group USA

Azul Dante, the charismatic leader of the Prodigal Project, offers a beacon of hope in the darkest hours following the Rapture, but seven men and women find their souls tested to the limits in their search for the promised land.

The Prodigal Project: Book 1: Genesis

Plume

Continues the story of several individuals caught up in the turbulent events following the world-shattering Rapture as they become involved in the battle of an Islamic mujahideen out to wrest power from the weakened nations of the West.

The Prodigal Project Book II: Exodus

Religion & Spirituality

Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task—to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, Jameson has learned a terrible secret.
Desperate to relay this information to the highest levels of the American government, Jameson enlists the aid of journalist Cat Early. Caught up in chaotic events that neither could have ever imagined, the pair struggle to have their voices heard in the tumult of a world on the brink of catastrophic global warfare. Only one man seemingly holds the power to bring peace—the charismatic world leader Azul Dante.
Global in scope yet powerfully focused on the lives of seven individuals struggling with issues of faith and allegiance to their country, Numbers, the third book of the Prodigal Project series, proves once again that: God Can Use Even the Most Broken of Vessels.

The Prodigal Project Book III

While Azul Dante recovers from a recent assassination attempt, new sinister forces exert a powerful influence on a gathering of ten key world leaders, events that signify the coming of the last days threaten a military showdown, and the members of seven spread their message of Christianity and salvation. Original.

The Prodigal Project Book 4: Kings

This important book provides a comprehensive look, from a developmental perspective, of how children and adolescents come to understand themselves during the first two decades of life. It explores every aspect of this central area of social cognition, including the physical, social, active, and psychological aspects of self. The authors present data from several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of children's and adolescents' self-conceptions, and they present alternative methods for interviewing children about themselves and for analyzing children's responses for developmental level and schematic orientation. They offer theoretical explanations about the processes that account for normal development of self-understanding and contrast these with abnormal processes that arise in populations of clinically disturbed youth. A chapter is also devoted to the study of children living in a remote agrarian setting, whose self-understanding is contrasted with the self-conceptions of children in the United States.

Self-Understanding in Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)

Damon, William

Cambridge University Press

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Renewing Democracy in Young America

Renewing Democracy in Young America

Numbers Book 3

Genesis

The Prodigal Project: Book 1: Genesis

The Prodigal Project Book II: Exodus

The Prodigal Project Book III

The Prodigal Project Book 4: Kings

Self-Understanding in Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)

Self-Understanding in Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)