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US Citizenship for Dummies 5 reviews Cheri Sicard, Steven D. Heller
For Dummies, 2003
US Citizenship for Dummies
+ really really good + Good book but not needed + Would have 5 stars if it were not outdated
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Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting ... 1 review Roy Howard Beck
Social Contract Press, 1994
A word from the author
Excuse the self-promotional 5-star rating. I had to fill that field to submit these comments. I found my book sitting here lonely without a comment and thought I would offer a few words to help out anybody browsing through these pages. This is not a page-turner book. Rather, it is a handbook ...
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Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Major Problems in American History) 3 reviews Jon Gjerde
Wadsworth Publishing, 1998
What was needed
+ Good Book but Too Expensive + An interesting perspective on being American
This book was required for my history class, no complaints so far, we shall see as the semester goes on.
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent 25 reviews Richard Florida
Collins Business, 2005
Building On His Thesis, But With A Warning
In the first portion of this book, Richard Florida recaps and defends the major ideas in his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. He addresses some of his critics and reasserts his thesis, which proposes that the ...
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Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics) 1 review Paula D. Mcclain, Joseph Stewart Jr.
Westview Press, 2005
Good quality, decent delivery
I planned ahead and got the book just about on time. You need to make sure you oder your books altleast a week or week and ahalf before the class starts if you want it for the first day.
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How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans 11 reviews Terese Loeb Kreuzer, Carol Bennett
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
If you're moving to Canada, read this book!
+ 4 Star Review + Go North!! ...or just learn something... + Good entry-level book on moving to Canada + Useful, pleasant, and to the point
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A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard ... 2 reviews Aristide R. Zolberg
Harvard University Press, 2006
a must-read on U.S "wanted but not welcome" policies
+ Everything you wanted to know about immigration to the USA
From colonial times to the present, the compromises that emerged over American immigration policy created a state of limbo for groups who were, as Aristide Zolberg puts it in this wide-ranging and erudite book, "wanted but not welcome." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Asian immigration ...
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The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our ... 18 reviews Gary S. Becker, Guity Nashat Becker
McGraw-Hill, 1998
Very readable, very practical
+ Friedman's best student speaks! + Easy to read everyday economics + Becker's "Economics of Life"
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Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Illegal Migrants 30 reviews Ted Conover
Vintage, 1987
Read it!
+ Well written, unique "birds eye view" + A GOP must-read + Unique observations of life as an undocumented worker + Coyotes: a borderlands journey by a journalist & now professor
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Why Don't They Learn English: Separating Fact from Fallacy in the U.S. Language Debate (Language and Literacy ... 4 reviews Lucy Tse
Teachers College Press, 2001
Fuel to fight the English Only people
+ Meaningful! + This is a great book. + great resource and information
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The Age of Migration, Third Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World 1 review Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller
The Guilford Press, 2003
Lots of info, little theory
Castles and Miller are considered the standard citation in social sciences for a historical overview of worldwide migration after WWII. The book covers a lot of material - numbers, policies, brief histories - but offers very little in the way of theoretical explanations for migration. Why are so ...
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Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror 34 reviews J. D. Hayworth
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006
Whatever It Takes
+ An Eagle Scout speaks up! + Illegal Immigration: Isn't it wonderful? + R.I.P. Jamie Shaw, Jr
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In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security 79 reviews Tom Tancredo
WND Books, 2006
Stop playing the race card
+ Persuasive Arguments For Border Control And Immigration Reform + author and Presidential Candidate Tom Tancredo in 2008 + Amazing book! + The issues of the US security and immigration
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The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. ... 10 reviews Roy Howard Beck
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996
A direct look at immigration.
+ Super backgrounder for the current congressional/presidential immigration "debate." + Great Book!! + Best Immigration Reform Book Ever
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State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America 246 reviews Patrick J. Buchanan
Thomas Dunne Books, 2006
Buchanan
+ GREAT TOOL FOR ARGUMENT!!! + Is it all over but the Funeral? + State of Emergency + We had better pay attention
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"They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration 14 reviews Aviva Chomsky
Beacon Press, 2007
Key to any collection strong in immigrant history
+ Just 20 myths about Immigration? + Not a textbook, but just as informative.
"THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!" AND 20 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION is key to any collection strong in immigrant history, culture and issues in America, whether it be for a public lending library or a high school or college collection seeking to foster debates and education on the topic. Over twenty of the ...
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Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders 26 reviews Jim Gilchrist, Jerome R. Corsi
World Ahead Publishing, 2006
This book makes you really fear for our future!
+ THIS WILL FRIGHTEN YOU + enough is enough + Excellent Overview of Immigration
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Human Traffic_Sex, Slaves and Immigration 7 reviews Craig McGill
Vision Paperbacks, 2003
An inside look at immigration
+ Stopping sex trafficing + Stories about desperate people and the walls that block them
This book was a great read. Very simple in its syntax and a book that anyone who has an interest in the "hot-button" item of immigration should read. Many first-hand accounts fill this relatively small book, and they give it the feel of being inside the human trafficking world. Be careful, this ...
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Debating Immigration 3 reviews
Cambridge University Press, 2007
It's a particularly strong pick for any collection
+ Strong collection of essays + Have you ever really looked?
College-level collections and many a high school library will want to consider DEBATING IMMIGRATION: it offers an unusually well-balanced collection of debates on various immigration issue positions which gathers reasonings from Left, Right and Middle about immigration and border issues, and ...
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth ... 4 reviews Mae M. Ngai
Princeton University Press, 2005
Reframing immigration history
+ The construction of the illegal immigrant and discriminatory US policies + The legally constructed "illegal aliens"
Mae Ngai's ambitious book compels historians and general readers alike to critically reassess traditional understandings of and approaches to U.S. immigration. Much of the histories on U.S. immigration and immigration policies have told a similar tale. The United States, the narrative goes, has ...
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