David Miles

"An absolute necessity for anyone looking for a kid-friendly history book."--Time for Kids, Kid Reporter "This engaging and surprisingly entertaining effort seems like the perfect choice to accompany and expand lesson plans. A hardworking addition to U. S. history shelves."--Kirkus Reviews (Starred) "This book introduces students to the Declaration in an informative and well-rounded manner. They are not just told what the document says but asked to think about it and question it. VERDICT A great way to nourish an informed citizenry. Highly recommended."--School Library Journal (Starred) "This title presents exactly what the title describes.... The collage-style illustrations...practically tell a story themselves, often managing to add humor to what is frequently considered a somewhat dry topic. The result is a book that is not only educational, but fun as well." --School Library Connection, Recommended A 2022-2023 Dogwood Title (Grades 6-8) (Missouri Association of School Librarians) We hold these truths to be self-evident... Do you know what's actually in the full Declaration of Independence? How it was written? What was happening at the time? How to read the formal language? Don't worry Because now, in The Side-by-Side Declaration of Independence, kid patriots (and grown-ups alike ) can tackle the Declaration like never before. Decipher the original text of the Declaration on each left-hand page with help from a "plain English" translation on each right-hand page. Bright illustrations, historical explanations, helpful definitions, and other fun facts round out this brilliant introduction to one of the world's most important documents.

Meet the atom: the building block of the universe "What this title does well is cover the basics of what an atom is and provides clear explanations of how the atom builds into elements, molecules, common substances like sugar, salt, chalk, and soda, even chocolate chip cookies. This book is for the youngest readers and curious minds asking about how life works.... This title would work well in an elementary unit about chemistry or physics."--School Library Connection, Recommended Over there is an atom. Wait, you don't see it? That's because are super, super, super, super, super small. In this boldly illustrated book for beginners, young kids will learn the basics of atoms, molecules, and how everything fits together to build the world they love. Bright, modern art introduces protons, neutrons, electrons, elements, the periodic table, and much, much more A stunning teaching aid that's as beautiful as it is educational.

Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change – the Neolithic, or ‘New Stone Age’ – through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using an ancient stone axe-head brought to him by a local quarry worker as a guide to the revolution that changed the world. These formidable creations were not only crucial tools that enabled the first farmers to clear the forests, but also objects of great symbolic importance, signifying status and power, wrapped up in expressions of religion and politics. Mixing anecdote, ethnography and archaeological analysis, the author vividly demonstrates how the archaeology on the ground reveals to us the evolving worldview of a species increasingly altering their own landscape; settling down together, investing in agricultural plots, and collectively erecting massive ceremonial monuments to cement new communal identities. As a direct result of the invention, and intensification, of agriculture, the planet entered the Anthropocene, or the current ‘age of humanity’: an era in which we are changing the world around us in significant, accelerating and often unpredictable ways. As the author poignantly concludes, our ancestors set us on the path to the modern world we live in; now seven billion humans must face the challenges that presents. With 76 illustrations, 24 in colour

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Hannah Arendt, and Alexis de Tocqueville, the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and the inter-relationship between citizens and state. Drawing on constitutional history, law, and political theory, David Miles argues that constitutionalism cannot be seen merely as an institutional mechanism to limit government, as it also has a crucial civic dimension upon which the liberal state depends. Utilising the works of Böckenförde, Arendt, and Tocqueville, constitutionalism is conceived in the book as part of a broader system of communal norms which sustains representative democracy and liberalism. Through an analysis of judicial interventions in the electoral processes of the United States and Germany, Miles explores the role of civil society actors in transforming constitutionalism through legal challenges to oligarchical or exclusionary practices. He assesses how, in adjudicating these cases, the US Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court have mediated the tension between threats to stability and the imperative of democratic renewal. Democracy, the Courts, and the Liberal State will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in comparative politics, political theory, and constitutional law and history.

Climate change: would you leave it to chance? With colorful illustrations, simple text, and research from trusted sources like NASA, NOAA, and the United Nations, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours is the interactive book that outlines the causes of climate change and gently explores its consequences like rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and more. Though not shy about uncomfortable realities, Climate Change: The Choice is Ours also emphatically teaches hope for the future and includes timely recommendations for what kids and their families can do. Most importantly, the book's built-in spinner offers readers a choice on every page: spin the arrow and leave climate change to chance or do something about it From the book: Speaking Up Solving climate change will require that individuals, communities, businesses, and nations to work together for the common good. Bringing people together for the common good. Not everyone agrees that climate change is happening or how serious it is. But if people speak out and show that climate change matters to them, more governments and businesses will take it seriously and decide to act. You can be one of those people.

Discover our democracy's central document is this fun and interactive book with flaps, wheels, color-changing words, and more A 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book (NCSS-CBC) Finalist, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards: The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book Explore the U. S. Constitution like never before Amazing interactive features like color-changing words, flaps, wheels, and a special vocabulary decoder help kids learn about types of government, checks and balances, the Bill of Rights, the amendment process, and more There's never been a better way--or a more important time--to discover the world-changing importance of this powerful founding document. "In cheery infographic-style illustrations and chatty but succinct prose, Miles and Pinilla have boiled down the basics of the U. S. Constitution without shortchanging history or legal tradition.... Both history geeks and casual students should easily ratify this one."--Publishers Weekly From the Book: The Constitution is a special document that was written in 1787. It explains how the United States governement should be set up. It also explains the purpose of that government and how it should protect the freedoms of the people. The Constitution is one of the most important documents ever written in the history of the world.

The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape – a sleek, almost abstract figure 120 yards long which was carved into the green turf of the spectacular chalk scarp of the North Wessex Downs in the early first millennium bc. For centuries antiquarians, travellers and local people speculated about the age of the Horse, who created it and why. Was it a memorial to King Alfred the Great’s victory over the heathen Danes, an emblem of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers or a prehistoric banner, announcing the territory of a British tribe? Or was the Horse an actor in an elaborate prehistoric ritual, drawing the sun across the sky? The rich history of this ancient figure and its surroundings can help us understand how people have created and lived in the Downland landscape, which has inspired artists, poets and writers including Eric Ravilious, John Betjeman and J. R. R. Tolkien. The White Horse itself is most remarkable because it is still here. People have cared for it and curated it for centuries, even millennia. In that time the meaning of the Horse has changed, yet it has remained a symbol of continuity and is a myth for modern times.

All aboard the Christmas Train! Join Santa, his enterprising elves, snuggly snowmen, friendly carolers, and the rest of Christmas's colorful characters on a train ride that teaches counting and seek-and-find activities all for the Christmas season. This adorable two-in-one board book unfolds into a 56" train (perfect for playtime or room decor!) A handy velcro clasp keeps everything snuggly shut when reading time is over.

Lisko is a young artist on a search to understand himself and what his life means. As he looks for answers he is faced with the hardships of reality and the consequences that follow his actions. Understanding his self-worth, fixing the many flaws he has, and jumping from one love to another is much more difficult than this young man expected. Lisko has a long road ahead of him, but whether he learns anything from it or not is yet to be determined.

Das international renommierte Lehrbuch für Makroökonomie. Praxis vor Theorie: Die Einführung in die zentralen Themen und formalen Modelle der Makroökonomie erfolgt anhand konkreter ökonomischer Probleme und Lösungen. Miles/Scott und Breedon berücksichtigen dabei moderne Forschungsergebnisse und empirische Daten aus OECD- und Nicht-OECD-Ländern. Das Lehrbuch für Studierende der Volkwirtschaftslehre.

Macroeconomics: Understanding the Global Economy, 3rd Edition is to help students – and indeed anyone – understand contemporary and past economic events that shape the world we live in, and at a sophisticated level. But it does so without focusing on mathematical techniques and models for their own sake. Theory is taken seriously – so much so that the authors go to pains to understand the key aspects of theories in a way that will not put people off before they see how theories are useful to analyse issues. The authors believe that theories are essential to better understand the world, thus the book includes a wealth of historic and current episodes and data to both see how theories can help interpret the world and also to judge their validity. Economies today are very inter-connected; what happens in China matters pretty much everywhere; and what happens in one (even small) country in the euro zone has implications for the whole euro area and beyond, consequently Macroeconomics, 3rd Edition adopts a very international focus.

In 1985 Oxford Archaeology excavated an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Butler's Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. The excavations recovered a maximum of 223 inhumation burials in 200 graves, and the remains of at least 45 cremation burials. Butler's Field is the wealthiest Anglo-Saxon cemetery to have been excavated under modern conditions within the Thames Valley. The finds assemblage comprises thousands of objects, some of which are rare or unique in England. The cemetery was in use from the late 5th century until the late 7th century, and such a long peiod of use makes the cemetery very unusual in England and of considerable value for Anglo-Saxon studies. The grave catalogue and human bone report, along with the prehistoric and Roman archaeology from the site, were published in Volume 1 of this report in 1998. This volume presents the specialist reports on the Anglo-Saxon grave goods, a review of the chronology of the cemetery, and an overview of burial practice and the evidence for the population who were buried there.

Det visar sig att Jesus från Nasaret är den Messias, befriaren, som Gamla testamentet talar om. Men Jesus blir inte väl mottagen. Han motsvarar inte alls förväntningarna. Gång på gång bryter han sociala mönster och koder. Han umgås med både orena och invandrare, hjälper och helar de sjuka. Dessutom hävdar Jesus att Guds folk inte längre har med nationalitet att göra nu kan alla få del av Guds rike. Detta är den illustrerade utgåvan av Matteus berättelse om Jesus i Svenska Bibelkommissionens översättning Bibel 2000. Samma text nu med bilder. Det illustrerade Matteusevangeliet av Bibel 2000 från Marcus Förlag ingår i en serie med de fyra evangelierna, illustrerade av Keith Neely och David Miles. Texterna är den kompletta utgåvan av Svenska Bibelkommissionens översättning Bibel 2000 med kapitel- och versindelning samt parallellhänvisningar.

The Cotswold Water Park Project is a landscape study centred upon parts of the Upper Thames Valley within what is now the Cotswold Water Park. The report is based upon four key excavated rural settlements, the most extensive being that at Claydon Pike, which dated primarily from the middle Iron Age to the late Roman period. A number of middle Saxon burials were also found. The other Water Park settlements dated to the late Iron Age-Roman period and the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The report has incorporated the results of these excavations into a wider synthesis of landscape development in the region, including aspects of material culture, environment and the economy.

Addressing the physical remains of Oxford''s past this book concentrates on the confluence of the Thames and Cherwell, looking out into the countryside to explain the nature of early settlement and the changing pattern of urban life.'