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Young readers will find all kinds of interesting facts as they learn who can run for president, who can vote, and what the Electoral College is and how it works.Much that we all thought we knew about U.S. presidential elections went out the window with the historic Bush-Gore campaign of 2000. But th... More

(back cover) Syl Sobel transforms Americaas history into an exciting adventure When the U.S. Constitution was first written, many of the freedoms we now take for granted were not yet guaranteed. Nowhere did the Constitution say anything about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of asse... More

Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance? Why was it written? What does it mean?"Our Pledge of Allegiance" tells the story behind the familiar words that schoolchildren learn and many recite every day. Written in clear and child-friendly lanlguage for readers in grades 3 - 6, the book also features childr... More

Sobel explains the three branches of the federal government--legislative, executive, and judicial--and how they work.A fine classroom supplement and a solid information source for kids writing social studies reports, this book explains the federal system as it works today, more than two hundred year... More

This guide to the Constitution of the United States analyzes the great document and explains to young readers exactly how it affects and protects people by giving them rights, from freedom of speech and religion to defending oneself in the court system.All elementary school students learn about the ... More

(back cover) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE How 13 Colonies Became the United States How much do you really know about the Declaration of Independence? Of course, you know it's the document that formally severed 13 American colonies' ties with England . . . that it's dated July 4, 1776 . . . and ... More

The essays in this book develop and explore the Bayesian idea that rational actions maximize expected values, where an action's expected value is a weighted average of its agent's values for its possible total outcomes. The author establishes principles for distinguishing options in decision problem... More

Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ... More