Author: Marilyn JS Goodman File Type: pdf Aimed at parents and caregivers, this book explores the meaning and value of drawing for youngsters, from toddlers aged two to preadolescents aged twelve. Informed by psychology and practical teaching with children, it guides readers through the progressive stages and characteristics of drawing development as children change mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, and creatively. It offers tips to encourage children to express their ideas visually and recommends age-appropriate art materials, workspaces, and different media. It also gives suggestions for making a museum visit more meaningfulnot to mention more funfor both parents and kids. Packed with delightful examples of childrens art, Children Draw is an essential book for parents interested in their childs art activities. **

Author: Terence Roehrig File Type: pdf For close to sixty years, the United States has maintained alliances with Japan and South Korea that have included a nuclear umbrella, guaranteeing their security as part of a strategy of extended deterrence. Yet questions about the credibility of deterrence commitments have always been an issue, especially when nuclear weapons are concerned. Would the United States truly be willing to use these weapons to defend an ally?In this book, Terence Roehrig provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the nuclear umbrella in northeast Asia in the broader context of deterrence theory and U.S. strategy. He examines the role of the nuclear umbrella in Japanese and South Korean defense planning and security calculations, including the likelihood that either will develop its own nuclear weapons. Roehrig argues that the nuclear umbrella is most important as a political signal demonstrating commitment to the defense of allies and as a tool to prevent further nuclear proliferation in the region. While the role of the nuclear umbrella is often discussed in military terms, this book provides an important glimpse into the political dimensions of the nuclear security guarantee. As the security environment in East Asia changes with the growth of North Koreas capabilities and Chinas military modernization, as well as Donald Trumps early pronouncements that cast doubt on traditional commitments to allies, the credibility and resolve of U.S. alliances will take on renewed importance for the region and the world.

Author: Lucas Francisco Mateo-Seco File Type: pdf The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives, providing in two hundred articles a symphonic vision of the studies on Gregory of Nyssa and his thought. **Review Realise par 43 auteurs qui ont redige quelque 240 articles, ce dictionnaire servira non seulement a l etude de Gregoire de Nysse mais egalement a celle de la theologie et de l exegese du quatrieme siecle, comme aussi de l arriere-plan philosophique et culturel des Cappadociens. Paul-Hubert Poirier, Laval theologique et philosophique ...will certainly become a standard resource for students at all levels. [...] Gregory s reputation has grown greatly in the last hundred-odd years, in large measure owing to the labours of editors and interpreters such as those who have contributed to this volume. For those labours the rest of us theologians and historians of ideas ought to be grateful. L. R. W1CKHAM, Journal of Theological Studies October 2012 Realise par 43 auteurs qui ont redige quelque 240 articles, ce dictionnaire servira non seulement a l etude de Gregoire de Nysse mais egalement a celle de la theologie et de l exegese du quatrieme siecle, comme aussi de l arriere-plan philosophique et culturel des Cappadociens. Paul-Hubert Poirier, Laval theologique et philosophique From the Back Cover The Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa is the fruit of wide-ranging collaboration between experts in Philology, Philosophy, History and Theology. These scholars shared the desire to develop a comprehensive reference work that would help attract more people to the tudy of the Father of Fathers and assist them in their work. Gregory of Nyssas thought is at once quintessentially classic and modern, as it speaks directly to the contemporary reader. As interest in Gregory has increased along with the number of works devoted to him, the need for a comprehensive introduction and bibliographical reference work has arisen. In order to meet this need, more than forty scholars from various disciplines and perspectives have contributed to this work. In two hundred articles, the Brill Dictionary of Gregory of Nyssa provides a symphonic vision of the studies on Gregory of Nyssa and his thought.

Author: Robert A. Caro File Type: epub Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnsons story through one of its most remarkable periods his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnsons experiencefrom his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machinecame to fruition. Caro introduces the story with a dramatic account of the Senate itself how Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun had made it the center of governmental energy, the forum in which the great issues of the country were thrashed out. And how, by the time Johnson arrived, it had dwindled into a body that merely responded to executive initiatives, all but impervious to the forces of change. Caro anatomizes the genius for political strategy and tactics by which, in an institution that had made the seniority system all-powerful for a century and more, Johnson became Majority Leader after only a single term-the youngest and greatest Senate Leader in our history how he manipulated the Senates hallowed rules and customs and the weaknesses and strengths of his colleagues to change the unchangeable Senate from a loose confederation of sovereign senators to a whirring legislative machine under his own iron-fisted control. Caro demonstrates how Johnsons political genius enabled him to reconcile the unreconcilable to retain the support of the southerners who controlled the Senate while earning the trustor at least the cooperationof the liberals, led by Paul Douglas and Hubert Humphrey, without whom he could not achieve his goal of winning the presidency. He shows the dark side of Johnsons ambition how he proved his loyalty to the great oil barons who had financed his rise to power by ruthlessly destroying the career of the New Dealer who was in charge of regulating them, Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds. And we watch him achieve the impossible convincing southerners that although he was firmly in their camp as the anointed successor to their leader, Richard Russell, it was essential that they allow him to make some progress toward civil rights. In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnsons amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875. Master of the Senate, told with an abundance of rich detail that could only have come from Caros peerless research, is both a galvanizing portrait of the man himselfthe titan of Capital Hill, volcanic, mesmerizingand a definitive and revelatory study of the workings and personal and legislative power. **Amazon.com Review Robert Caros Master of the Senate examines in meticulous detail Lyndon Johnsons career in that body, from his arrival in 1950 (after 12 years in the House of Representatives) until his election as JFKs vice president in 1960. This, the third in a projected four-volume series, studies not only the pragmatic, ruthless, ambitious Johnson, who wielded influence with both consummate skill and raw, elemental brutality, but also the Senate itself, which Caro describes (pre-1957) as a cruel joke and an impregnable stronghold against social change. The milestone of Johnsons Senate years was the 1957 Civil Rights Act, whose passage he single-handedly engineered. As important as the bill was--both in and of itself and as a precursor to wider-reaching civil rights legislation--it was only close to Johnsons Southern anti-civil rights heart as a means to his dream the presidency. Caro writes that not only does power corrupt, it reveals, and thats exactly what this massive, scrupulously researched book does. A model of social, psychological, and political insight, it is not just masterful it is a masterpiece. --H. OBillovich From Publishers Weekly As a genre, Senate biography tends not to excite. The Senate is a genteel establishment engaged in a legislative process that often appears arcane to outsiders. Nevertheless, there is something uniquely mesmerizing about the wily, combative Lyndon Johnson as portrayed by Caro. In this, the third installment of his projected four-volume life of Johnson (following The Path to Power and Means of Ascent), Caro traces the Texans career from his days as a newly elected junior senator in 1949 up to his fight for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In 1953, Johnson became the youngest minority leader in Senate history, and the following year, when the Democrats won control, the youngest majority leader. Throughout the book, Caro portrays an uncompromisingly ambitious man at the height of his political and rhetorical powers a furtive, relentless operator who routinely played both sides of the street to his advantage in a range of disputes. He would tell us [segregationists], recalled Herman Talmadge, Im one of you, but I can help you more if I dont meet with you. At the same time, Johnson worked behind the scenes to cultivate NAACP leaders. Though it emerges here that he was perhaps not instinctively on the side of the angels in this or other controversies, the pragmatic Senator Johnson nevertheless understood the drift of history well, and invariably chose to swim with the tide, rather than against. The same would not be said later of the Johnson who dwelled so glumly in the White House, expanding a war that even he, eventually, came to loathe. But that is another volume one that we shall await eagerly. Photos. 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.