The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A.Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of theSenate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkableperiods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the UnitedStates Senate. Once the most august and revered body in politics,by the time Johnson arrived the Senate had become a parody ofitself and an obstacle that for decades had blocked desperatelyneeded liberal legislation. Caro shows how Johnson’s brilliance,charm, and ruthlessness enabled him to become the youngest and mostpowerful Majority Leader in history and how he used hisincomparable legislative genius--seducing both Northern liberalsand Southern conservatives--to pass the first Civil Rightslegislation since Reconstruction. Brilliantly weaving rich detailinto a gripping narrative, Caro gives us both a galvanizingportrait of Johnson himself and a definitive and revelatory studyof the workings of legislative power.

On March 23, 2003, in the city of An Nasiriyah, Iraq, membersof the 507th Maintenance Company came under attack from Iraqiforces who killed or wounded twenty-one soldiers and took sixprisoners, including Private Jessica Lynch. For the next week, AnNasiriyah rocked with battle as the marines of Task Force Tarawafought Saddam's fanatical followers, street by street and buildingto building, ultimately rescuing Private Lynch.

A Positive, Proven Approach to Single Parenting! As a single parent in our complex world, you face the challengeof doing alone a job that was meant for two people. In addition,self-doubt and guilt may dampen the joy you experience raising yourchild. What do you do? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come totrust Jane Nelsen's classic POSITIVE DISCIPLINE series for itsconsistant, commonsense approach to child rearing. In thiscompletely revised and updated edition of Positive Discipline forSingle Parents you'll learn how to succeed as a single parent inthe most important job of your life: raising a child who isresponsible, respectful, and resourceful. Inside this reassuring book, you'll discover how to: ·Identify potential problems and develop skills to preventthem ·Budget time each week for family activities ·Create a respectful coparenting relationship with your formerspouse ·Use nonpunitive methods to help your children make wisedecisions abo

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who sawthe Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights andliberties. Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

2011年夏天美国记者Suki Kim得到了一份在朝鲜首都的平壤科技大学(在这里学习的全部是男学生)教授英语的工作。 Kim出生在韩国，13岁的时候和家人搬来美国居住，Kim可以说一口流利的韩国话，在为期六个月的教学工作中她将所见偷偷记录下来，靠着这些材料撰写了《Without You, There Is No Us》一书。

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, WarisDirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia.She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five yearsold; running away through the desert; being discovered by TerenceDonovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, theworldwide bestseller, DESERT FLOWER. In DESERT DAWN she wrote aboutbecoming a UN Special Ambassador against FGM (female genitalmutilation) and returning to her family in Somalia. DESERT CHILDRENtells us how she and the journalist Corinna Milborn haveinvestigated the practice of FGM in Europe - they estimate that upto 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. Atthe moment, France is the only European country in which offendersare convicted and no European country officially recognises thethreat of genital mutilation as a reason for asylum. Here are thevoices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by WarisDirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us toact

September 11th changed the face of America, but it alsorevealed the true face of heroism. The men of the New York FireDepartment fought with courage and endurance to save others. Thisis their story, told by a veteran firefighter. --This text refersto an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives newteachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and toolsfor creating a positive and dynamic learning environment whilemeeting the challenges of each school day. Packed with valuabletips, the book helps new teachers with everything from becomingeffective team players and connecting with students to handlingbehavior problems and working within diverse classrooms. The new editionis fully revised and updated to cover changes inthe K-12 classroom over the past five years. Updates to the secondedition include: New ways teachers can meet the professional developmentrequirements of the No Child Left Behind Act Entirely new section on helping struggling readers, to addressthe declining literacy rate among today’s students Expanded coverage of helpful technology solutions for theclassroom Expanded information on teaching English Language Learners Greater coverage of the issues/challenges facing elementary

In November of 1587, a report reached London claiming SirWalter Raleigh's expedition to land English settlers in America hadfoundered. The colony on Roanoke Island off of the coast of NorthCarolina-115 men, women, and children-had disappeared without atrace. For four hundred years, the question of what became of thedoomed settlers has remained unanswered. Where did they go? Whatreally happened? Why were they on Roanoke Island in the firstplace, as that was not their destination? Using her consummateskills as an anthropologist and ethnohistorian, Lee Miller castsnew light on the previously inexplicable puzzle of Roanoke,unraveling a thrilling web of deceit that can be traced back to theinner circle of Queen Elizabeth's government to finally solve thelasting mystery of the Lost Colony. "Lee Miller offers enlivening insight and astounding detail asshe resurrects a four-hundred-year-old American mystery." (ChicagoTribune)

In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy. The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated de*ion of the workings of a market economy. The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.

First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's no

Prepare your child for a lifetime of learning andwonder. Designed for parents to enjoy with children, filled withopportunities for reading aloud and fostering curiosity, thisbeautifully illustrated read-aloud anthology offers preschoolersthe fundamentals they need to prepare for a happy, productive timein school—and for the rest of their lives. Millions of childrenhave benefited from the acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, developedin consultation with parents, educators, and the most distinguisheddevelopmental psychologists. In addition to valuable advice toparents, including what it means for a child to be ready forkindergarten, special sidebars throughout the book help parentsmake reading aloud fun and interactive, suggesting questions toask, connections to make, and games to play to enrich theirpreschooler’s learning experience.

Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entirecourse of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from theMycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through theArchaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliantaccount celebrates the incredible range of Greek achievement: thearchitectural marvels of the Athenian Acropolis; the birth of dramaand the timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles;Homer's epics; the philosophical revolutions of Plato andAristotle; and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, The GreekAchievement paints a sweeping panorama of the ancient Greeks' worldand provides a rich, contemporary overview of their enduringcontribution to world civilization.

When two of his American employees were held hostage in Iran,H. Ross Perot and a select group of his employees took matters intotheir own hands.

This second edition of the popular math teaching resource bookMath Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updatedtrue-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use mathskills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguingshort stories followed by sets of problems related to the storiesthat are correlated to the standards of the National Council ofTeachers of Mathematics. Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by threeincreasingly difficult groups of problem sets. This makes it simplefor teachers to select the appropriate problem set for students ofdifferent abilities and at different grade levels. To furtherenhance student involvement, the stories feature recurringcharacters and can be used either sequentially or out of order. Theproblems in the book cover many basic math topics, includingdecimals, fractions, and percents; measurement; geometry; data,statistics, and probability; algebra; and problem solving. In addition to having all the answers, an Answer

The "alarming and impassioned"* book on how the Internet isredefining constitutional law, now reissued as the first popularbook revised online by its readers (*New York Times) There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot beregulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from thegovernment's (or anyone else's) control. Code, first published in2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature ofcyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It onlyhas code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is.That code can create a place of freedom-as the originalarchitecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. Underthe influence of commerce, cyberpsace is becoming a highlyregulable space, where behavior is much more tightly controlledthan in real space. But that's not inevitable either. We can-wemust-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms wewill guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: aboutwhat kind of code will govern c