Offering children and families a single beautiful volume that will spark a love of language and verse that will last a lifetime, Caroline Kennedy draws from the poems her own family cherished. More than 100 selections from all five continents are featured, complemented by the watercolor artworks of Jon J. Muth.
Jackie focuses her impeccable taste on work by John Clare, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, and even Jimmy Kennedy, in this volume of her favorite poems. Daughter Caroline introduces each choice, and includes a selection of Jackie's own poems.
In Our Defense celebrates freedom and our basic rights from religious choice to trail by jury. Article by article, intention by intention, the first ten amendments are examined through cases that have challenged and been interpreted through them. Alderman and Kennedy, the daughter of the late President, both graduated, both graduated from Columbia ...
Caroline Kennedy collects songs, poems, and prose in praise of America in A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK. Included in this anthology are pieces by Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, and the Beach Boys.
In Our Defense celebrates freedom and our basic rights from religious choice to trail by jury. Article by article, intention by intention, the first ten amendments are examined through cases that have challenged and been interpreted through them. Alderman and Kennedy, the daughter of the late President, both graduated, both graduated from Columbia ...
In what is certain to be one of the most talked-about books of the year, Alderman and Kennedy examine one of our basic--and most contested--legal and constitutional rights: the right to privacy. Through a seamless interweaving of landmark cases, lesser-known trial decisions, and dozens of anecdotal narratives, the authors make an urgent, ...
Focusing on the her own family traditions, bestselling author Caroline Kennedy presents a charming collection of favorite Christmas tales to those who love to celebrate the spirit of the holidays. (Holidays)
Following the organizing principle of her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning PROFILES IN COURAGE, Caroline Kennedy here collects sketches of men and women whose lives or accomplishments embody high American principles. The portraits of winners of the Profiles In Courage Award are written by Pete Hamill, Marion Wright Engelman, Michael Beschloss, Bob ...
Affordable, readable, and indispensable,The United States Constitution: What it Says, What it Means allows you to put the most important document in American history in your back pocket. In conjunction with Justice Learning and The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and with an introduction written by Caroline Kennedy and an afterword ...
Illustrated with photographs from the Kennedy Family Collection and the Kennedy Library, this book gives young readers a look at a dynamic man whose personality and politics helped to shape the 20th century and continue to influence American life.
A stirring collection of poems, song lyrics, historical documents, and speeches, listeners will embrace this program as the perfect emblem of the country's patriotism and pride. Unabridged. 3 CDs.
This book provides a clear and lively account of how relations between Russia and America after World War Two fell into a Cold War. Assessing both the clash of ideas and personalities which brought about this confrontation the book highlights the emergences of a new mode of global politics. Looking at this conflict the book argues might help us to ...
In the post-Cold War world, debates over security have broadened beyond the realm of traditional military concerns. resurgent nationalism, mass migration, religious radicalism, economic globalisation and environmental degradation have become increasingly the focus of debate in the field of security studies. Nonetheless, international politics is ...
Through a seamless examination of legislative history, landmark cases, and lesser known but equally important trial decisions, Kennedy and Alderman take a complicated issue and make it accessible and entertaining. Delving into six general areas of law, this book is certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
Caroline Kennedy collects songs, poems, and prose in praise of America in A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK. Included in this anthology are pieces by Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, and the Beach Boys.
An investigation of the evolution of Soviet foreign policy from the Revolution of 1917 until the end of the Soviet era, tracing the origins and characteristics of Soviet external strategies from their Marxist-Leninist roots through to the collapse of communism. There is a careful analysis of Soviet foreign policy alongside the inception of the ...
The spade of books written recently on Christian higher education highlights a common theme: how many colleges founded by church bodies have gradually lost their religious moorings, often culminating in what historian George Marsden calls bestablished nonbelief.b "Can Hope Endure? examines the history of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, as it ...
For quarter of a century now the British Army has been involved in a bloody and protracted conflict in Northern Ireland. This book looks at the roots of the current struggle and of British military intervention, setting both in the longer perspective of the Anglo-Irish Troubles. It is, however, more than a chronicle of military strategies and ...
This gardening yearbook contains charts and record-keeping pages, practical information and interesting observations. It is illustrated throughout with Beatrix Potter's paintings of gardens and flowers.
In the post-Cold War world, debates over security have broadened beyond the realm of traditional military concerns. resurgent nationalism, mass migration, religious radicalism, economic globalisation and environmental degradation have become increasingly the focus of debate in the field of security studies. Nonetheless, international politics is ...
This work analyzes the start of the Cold War from a Soviet viewpoint, drawing on Russian sources. It challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of Western historians to show how Moscow saw the presence of US troops in Europe in the 1940s and early 1950s as advantageous, rather than as a check on Soviet ambitions. The author points to a complex web of ...
Jackie focuses her impeccable taste on work by John Clare, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, and even Jimmy Kennedy, in this volume of her favorite poems. Daughter Caroline introduces each choice, and includes a selection of Jackie's own poems.
In A Family Christmas, Caroline shares the Christmas poetry, prose, scriptural readings, and lyrics that are most dear to her, drawing on authors as diverse as Harper Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Collins, John and Yoko, and Charles Dickens. There are also many lesser-known gems throughout and personal treasures from her own ...
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