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On a steamy July 4th, a man who cares for the Lincoln Monument in Washington D.C. meets a man who professes to be Abraham Lincoln. This novel presents a ghost story that crosses across generations, wars, and perceptions.

Presents readings and activities designed to help secondary students explore perspectives on childhood, child rearing, and children's rights. Material includes role plays and simulations, and is engaging and demanding, touching on areas such as the age of consent, child labor, and conceptions of beauty. Each activity is presented with supportive notes for teachers. Also contains a resources list and a summary version of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Can be used with secondary and further education students. The editors are affiliated with Charles Stuart University, Australia, and the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as the International Institute for Global Education. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Before being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination. In this engaging book, David Selby explores how the Jansenist tradition shaped Alexis de Tocqueville’s life and works and argues that once that connection is understood, we can apply Tocqueville’s political thought in new and surprising ways. Moving from the historical sociology of Jansenism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France to contemporary debates over the human right to education, the role of religion in democracy, and the nature of political freedom, Selby brings Tocqueville out of the past and makes him relevant to the present, revealing that there is still much to learn from this great theorist of democracy.