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"By preschool, many kids have a sense of what being "nice" means: sharing with a sibling, using please and thank you, and not arguing. Kindness encompasses so many behaviors, and one of the best ways for kids to learn them all is by exposure. This book helps readers recognize and understand what behaviors are kind to others, including friends, teachers, siblings, and caregivers. Low-ATOS text written in complete sentences aids reading fluency and full-color photographs correlate with text to help comprehension"--

"So many young learners are excited to engage with their peers and teachers in a school or class setting. But, this eagerness can quickly devolve into chaos if rules about speaking and taking turns speaking aren't implemented. In this book, readers encounter many examples of kids just like them raising their hands to ask and answer questions, to ask to go the bathroom, or otherwise communicate with grown-ups. Full-color photographs directly correlate to the low-ATOS text to aid reading comprehension"--

"Sharing is emphasized to children seemingly from birth! But, it's not until children are about 4 years old that they are developmentally able to truly understand how and why to share with friends and siblings. In this adorable book, early readers see many examples of sharing at home, at school, and out and about. The low-ATOS text is written in complete sentences to aid reading fluency. Full-color photographs correlate with the achievable text to help readers overall comprehension of the text"--

In Pride and Solace, Norman Jacobson presents a novel perspective on the history of politcal theory. He sees an implicit conspiracy between political thinkers and their audience, in which theory feeds the common longing for solace, while the conversion of the audience to the thinker's truth gratifies a craving for immortality, the thinker's pride. In each age since the birth of the modern state, political theorists have found

The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the first Five-Year Plan, focusing on the problems confronting the Bolsheviks as they sought to promote national security and economic development. He demonstrates the central importance of foreign relations to the political imagination of Soviet leaders, both in their plans for industrialization and in the struggle for supremacy among Lenin's successors. Jacobson adopts a post-Cold War interpretative stance, incorporating glasnost and perestroika-era revelations. He also considers Soviet relations with both Europe and Asia from a global perspective, integrating the two modes of early Soviet foreign relations-revolution and diplomacy-into a coherent discussion. Most significantly, he synthesizes the wealth of information that became available to scholars since the 1960s. The result is a stimulating work of international history that interfaces with the sophisticated existing body of scholarship on early Soviet history

"Life on Earth depends on carbon. In fact, about 18.5 percent of a human body's mass is carbon! How carbon is taking in and given off through animals' breathing, the burning of fossil fuels, and more can be shown in the model known as the carbon cycle. Though this concept can be confusing, all readers have a chance to understand this concept through the text and simple diagrams in this book! Both struggling readers and those looking for review can find the most important components and vocabulary of the carbon cycle in low-level, accessible text."--

This volume explores key states and their changing conceptions of the international order in the post-Cold War era. Taken collectively, the contributors' analyses of the United States, the Soviet Union and its successor states, Japan, the People's Republic of China, the East Asian Little Dragons and Germany and the European Community paint a detailed portrait of the emerging world order. This multidisciplinary group of contributors utilizes a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to confront common themes and questions: How do states reorganize the world by creating idioms and conceptions of international order? What is the state's definition of its own role and the role of others? How has the state's idiom and conception of the international order shifted from the recent past? What role does the past play in approaches to the world order-in terms of historical traditions, fears, and memories? These questions are illuminated by considering such crucial issues as the state's approach to international or supranational institutions and legal codes, particularly in the area of economy and international human rights, and the role of the state vis--vis other states: Does the state have hegemonic tendencies and an active role in maintaining international stability? Does it stress independence or interdependence? Isolationism or internationalism? These original essays suggest the nascent form the international order is taking in an otherwise turbulent world. Understanding how states view the post-Cold War arena is of paramount importance for comprehending the development of the new world order. In addressing these issues, this volume not only provides concrete, timely answers but offers a variety of theoretical and methodological tools for scholars, policymakers, and the informed public.

On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that strongly condemned the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners captured in the 'war on terror' during the George W. Bush administration. This deeply researched and fully documented investigation caused monumental controversy, interest, and concern, and starkly highlighted both how ineffective the program was as well as the lengths to which the CIA had gone to conceal it. In The Torture Report, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón use their celebrated graphic-storytelling abilities to make the damning report accessible, finally allowing Americans to lift the veil and fully understand the crimes committed by the CIA

Drawn from extensive interviews with paid gestational surrogates, women employed to carry children who are not genetically their own, Labor of Love reveals the challenges they face as they deal with complicated medical procedures, delicate work-family balances, and tricky social dynamics. The book demonstrates the extent to which advances in reproductive technology are affecting all Americans, changing how we think about maternity, family, and the labor involved in giving birth

The Locarno Conference of 1925 and the five treaties concluded there have been seen as the turning point of the interwar years, i.e., Germany's acceptance of the 1919 peace settlement and the beginning of a new era of peace. Studying the documentary evidence, much of it available only recently, Jon Jacobson explores the personalities and politics of Locarno and offers a historical interpretation and synthesis of a critical decade in European diplomacy.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Intro -- Contents -- Part 1 The Making of Locarno -- Part 2 Appeasement Before and After Locarno 1925-1926 -- Part 3 The Decline of the Spirit of Locarno 1927 -- Part 4 Freedom for the Rhineland January-July 1928 -- Part 5 Compensation for the Allies August-December 1928 -- Part 6 The Final Reparation Settlement January-June 1929 -- Part 7 "The Final Liquidation of the War" June-July 1929 -- Part 8 The First Hague Conference August 1929 -- Part 9 Conclusion.

In this doctoral dissertation, the stigma of using assistive products is approached from the viewpoint of design. Personalisation is explored as means of managing the stigma. The dissertation proposes that some of the current ready-made assistive products can act as stigmatising Instruments, Misrepresentations and Uniforms. Personalised assistive products can function as Shields and Mainstream Products that help manage stigma, or as Accessories, Handicrafts and Prestige Items, through which various aspects of identity can be expressed. Assistiveness is introduced as a shared quality of assistive products, which could be adjusted through personalisation. The dissertation presents new types of functions to products that have previously been considered primarily assistive