liberty

An anthology of fourteen stories by young adult authors from around the world, on such themes as asylum, law, education, and faith, compiled in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Text and illustrations present nineteen quotes about the many different aspects of freedom.

"Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon"--Provided by publisher.

Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? This book is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to author Daniel Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms--individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government--are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather, they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that the Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to common-law rights. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism.

Twenty-three fiction and nonfiction writers, songwriters, and cartoonists, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Luc Sante, Paul Muldoon, and R. Crumb, present their own versions of American ballads from throughout the art form's history, including "Barbara Allen," "John Brown's Body," "Dead Man's Curve," and "Nebraska.".

Octavian, a young African-American, is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years prior to and during the American Revolution.

Presents a sketch of the life and times of seventeenth-century British political philosopher John Locke; provides an overview of his five major writings; analyzes the structure and content of Locke's "Two Treatises of Government"; and discusses the interpretation and significance of Locke's political teaching.

The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth that man is capable of ruling himself.