New Releases by Ray Gibson

Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beard''s An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913. For this new edition, Gibson has revised and updated his study, including his comprehensive bibliography, and also added a new concluding chapter on the "Unionist Paradigm" or "Federalist Interpretation" of the Constitution. As in the original work, Gibson argues in the new edition that scholarship on the Founding is no longer steered by a single dominant approach or even by a set of questions that control its direction. He features insightful extended discussions of pioneering works by leading scholars of the Founding--including Louis Hartz, Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood, and Garry Wills--that best exemplify different schools of interpretation. He focuses on six approaches that have dominated the modern study of the Founding-Progressive, Lockean/liberal, Republican, Scottish Enlightenment, multicultural, and multiple traditions approaches-before concluding with the Unionist or Federalist paradigm. For each approach, Gibson traces its fundamental assumptions, revealing deeper ideological and methodological differences between schools of thought that, on the surface, seem to differ only about the interpretation of historical facts. While previous accounts have treated the study of the Founding as the sequential replacement of one paradigm by another, Gibson argues that all of these interpretations survive as alternative and still viable approaches. By examining the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and showing how each has simultaneously illuminated and masked core truths about the American Founding, he renders a balanced account of the continuing and very vigorous debate over the origins and foundations of the American republic. Brimming with intellectual vigor and a based on both a wide and deep reading in the voluminous literature on the subject, Gibson''s new edition is sure to reinforce this remarkable book''s reputation while winning new converts to his argument.

Over the course of the last century, scholars have furiously debated four questions concerning the Founders and their act of creation. Were the Framers motivated by their economic interests? How democratic was the Framers'' Constitution? Should we interpret the Founding using philosophical or strictly historical approaches? What traditions of political thought were most important to the Framers? In Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions, Alan Gibson examines the preconceptions that scholars bring to these questions, explores the deepest sources of scholars'' disagreements over them, and suggests new and thoughtful lines of interpretation and inquiry. Building on his previous work, Interpreting the Founding, which offers a synoptic overview of the competing perspectives that have informed modern scholarship on the Founders...

Describes creative and imaginative activities to keep children busy after school and during breaks, including ideas for a new activity every day.

WONDERING WHAT TO DO TODAY? JUST OPEN THIS BOOK AND CHOOSE FROM HUNDREDS OF GREAT THINGS TO MAKE, COOK, GROW AND DRAW. THERE''S EVEN A SECTION ON DRESSING UP. ALL THE ACTIVITIES HAVE SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS, ENABLING YOUNG READERS TO PRODUCE DELIGHTFUL RESULTS QUICKLY AND EASILY.

Presents instructions for pipecleaner bangles, paper fish, lacy cards, vegetable people, furry snakes, paper flowers, and other crafts.

Step-by-step illustrations show simply and clearly how each drawing is done. The end result is sure to boost any child''s confidence.

This book is a collection of projects for Christmas, including tree decorations, gift tags, wrapping paper, fingerprint fat robins, and paper angels.

This book offers step-by-step instructions for making bunny wrapping paper, potato-printed chicks, cress egg-heads, decorated eggs, chick puppets, and other Easter projects.

Instrucciones paso a paso para dibujar diversos animales.

This spectacular photographic guide to sea shore animals and plants represents a opletely new approach to field guides. It is aimed at those who wish to find and identify organisms encountered o the sea or immediately offshore quickly and easily while promoting their conservation. Uniquely, each species is illustrated by a photograph and, in most cases, accompanied by a line drawing that emphasizes the critical features for identification and a map to show the distribution of the species in North-West Europe. The text itself deliberately focuses on features that complement the photographs and facilitate identification non-destructively--where, for example, burrowing worms can only be identified by digging them up and therefore killing them, only the cast, the part usually seen, is shown. Stress is laid on the importance of exploiting all available information for locating and identifying each species--if two species have identical appearance they are described separately and behavioral, geographical, or seasonal features that distinguish them are described in the text. There is no other guide to seashore organisms like this one; those available are either less comprehensive or less well illustrated. It will appeal to beachcombers of all levels, from families to students and professionals, as well to divers and those visiting the proliferating numbers of commercially run marine aquaria that are open to the public.

Ce livre, plein d''idées créatives, est idéal pour occuper les enfants impatients durant les semaines précédant Noël. Grâce à des instructions détaillées, même les tout-petits obtiendront des résultats étonnants. L''ours polaire surprise, les mains d''ange et la guirlande de bonshommes de neige figurent parmi les amusantes créations proposées pour les fêtes. Ce livre contient aussi plus de 50 autocollants à utiliser avec les décorations, cartes de Noël et étiquettes pour cadeau.

Step-by-step instructions for young children for creative activities including puppets, postcards and picnic ideas. Contains stickers to use with the projects.

Ce livre d''activités présente une foule d''idées simples pour aider les jeunes enfants à comprendre les nombres. Les activités incluent des notions élémentaires de la manipulation des nombres telles que compter, ajouter, soustraire et repartir.

Designed to help young children gain an understanding of numbers, this book presents easy activities which involve counting, adding, subtracting and sharing.

Shows how to draw people including a workman, an angel, a soccer player, an astronaut, a parachutist, and an ice skater.

This print and count book for the very young combines fun activities with opportunities for learning and practising essential pre-school skills using just half a potato and some paint. Clear picture instructions are provided.

A collection of ideas for activities and projects, with step-by-step instructions including cooking and gardening.

This book gives clear step-by-step pictures for crayon drawings of a giraffe, a fish, a caterpillar, a truck, and other things.

Step-by-step picture instructions for coloring, drawing animals and people, and finger painting.

Using beads and materials found at home, this book presents projects for necklaces and bracelets.

Basic printing techniques for children using such objects as potatoes, sponges, leaves and rubber stamps.

Gives instructions on how to draw, paint, and do handicrafts.

Provides instructions for making papier mãachâe, and suggests a variety of projects, including jewelry, bowls, frames, containers of various types, a monster mask, a Christmas angel, and other useful and decorative items.

This book gives simple step-by-step instructions to transform your T-shirts using just a few fabric paints.