These seminal documents of American history are invaluable to the teacher or student, or simply the patriot. Authentic reproductions of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence are produced on paper treated to resemble antique parchment and are packaged together in a set. The Constitution comes on four pages, so the entire document is legible.
International music legend Dionne Warwick's reputation as a hit maker has been firmly etched into the public consciousness, thanks to nearly 60 charted hits and the receipt of multiple Grammy Awards. As a performer, she has charmed and entertained audiences on every continent, amassing a worldwide audience. Her status as both a musical icon and humanitarian is legendary. Having her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she works tirelessly with various organizations dedicated to empowering and inspiring others. Her book, Say a Little Prayer (Running Press, September 2008), is a picture book that encourages kids to find their best talent in life and embrace it.
Dr. Laura Dean is a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), which is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Laura graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Cambridge in 2000. Since that time she has completed a medical and surgical rotation in the UK and written two textbooks ("The Genetic Landscape of Diabetes" and "Blood Groups and Red Cell Antigens") and over 20 online articles for the NCBI.
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Ryan was born in 1945 in San Jose, Calif., and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Her father was an oil well driller and sometime-prospector. She received both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1971, Ryan has lived in Marin County. Her partner of 30 years is Carol Adair.For more than 30 years, Ryan limited her professional responsibilities to the part-time teaching of remedial English at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif., thus leaving much of her life free for "a lot of mountain bike riding plus the idle maunderings poets feed upon." She said at one point that she has never taken a creative writing class, and in a 2004 interview in The Christian Science Monitor, she noted, "I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy."In her poems Ryan enjoys re-examining the beauty of everyday phrases and mining the cracks in common human experience. Unlike many poets writing today, she seldom writes in the first person.
Maybe you want to work from home or maybe you need to work from home? Maybe your job has evaporated as have many others thanks to the current economy? Are you looking for a change? If so, working from home or "telework" as it is referred to in this book might be just the thing for you and your family.
Released last February by NOLO in partnership with USA TODAY this very simple and easy to read short handbook details the ins and outs of working from home. Both as an employee of a company where you can do your job from home or as a freelance consultant. Both types are considered in each chapter despite the fact that the two concepts are often very different.
After a very short opening chapter touting the advantages for you as well as any possible employer, the discussion moves onto whether or not you, the reader is a good candidate for working from home. Simply loving the idea of avoiding the commute isn't enough. In the second chapter, planning such a move regarding child care, where the desk will go, how such a deal will change everyone's lives is considered among other ideas.
Chapters three and four address the questions of whether you can do your job at home and how to make your case to your boss and the corporate bureaucracy. Freelancing is again briefly mentioned, but the primary focus is on whether you can take the job you currently have and do it at home.
Chapter five addresses how to find a job that you can do from home as well as the many pitfalls and scams to avoid. The very common "medical claims processing" scam is mentioned along with the classic "product assembly" deal and the always popular "envelope stuffing" and quite a few others. This information, as well as much in the book, is also helpful to those seeking to have a second income while keeping day job.
Freelancing is covered in chapter six. Much of the information involves creating contracts, setting rates, and dealing with taxes as opposed to suggestions regarding what to freelance.
Chapter seven deals with taxes for your online job and defines deductions, working for an employer in another state, filling taxes, etc. Both of the authors are residents of California and have written this chapter with Federal Taxes in mind. State tax considerations and local tax issues aren't covered. As in any in any guide book, information is subject to change and one should always consult with your Tax Specialist or preparer for information.
Chapter eight covers how to succeed at working from home. Not only how to keep you involved in the workplace from home, but also how to stay motivated and making sure the work gets done. Not only do you have to make sure the boss sees your productivity you also have to make sure your friends and family know the limits and abide by them.
Setting limits on others was never an issue for me. My issue was setting my own limits. Whether it was some daytime talk show train wreck (is he the father of these six kids by five different women? They are all here today to prove he is the father) or important news, congressional hearings, sports stuff, etc. the television is a huge distracter. It has to stay off, for me to get any work done.
An index and catalog listing of titles available from NOLO along with numerous ads bring this small 160 page book to a close.
For those readers who know nothing about telecommuting this short easy to read book full of very general information and tips is a real good deal. It outlines the concepts and possibilities, various scenarios, and possible strategies to make the transition. For those freelance writers such as myself and others who have experience doing telework, this small handbook won’t shed any new light on the subject and is of little help.
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The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. It is updated frequently and draws on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources.For questions about articles or copies of materials in the Law Library's collections, contact us at glm@loc.gov.
Ongoing exhibition, opened December 12, 2007Northwest Gallery, 2nd Floor, Thomas Jefferson Building.
Exploring the Early Americas features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress. It provides insight into indigenous cultures, the drama of the encounters between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, and the pivotal changes caused by the meeting of the American and European worlds. The exhibition includes two extraordinary maps by Martin Waldseemuller created in 1507 and 1516, which depict a world enlarged by the presence of the Western Hemisphere.
"With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" opens at the Library of Congress on Feb. 12, 2009, in celebration of the 200th birthday of America's 16th president, offering the public the opportunity to view rarely seen treasures from the Library's collections.
This major exhibition, made possible through the generous support of Union Pacific Corporation, runs through May 9, 2009, after which it will travel to five U.S. cities.
"With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" will chart Lincoln's growth from prairie lawyer to preeminent statesman and address the monumental issues he faced, including slavery and race, the dissolution of the Union, and the Civil War.
The exhibit will reveal Lincoln the man, whose thoughts, words, and actions were deeply affected by personal experiences and pivotal historic events. By placing Lincoln's words in a historical context, the exhibition will give visitors a deeper understanding of how remarkable Lincoln's decisions were for their time and why his words continue to resonate today.
The exhibition will draw on the vast and varied collections of Lincoln material in the Library and will include letters, photographs, political cartoons, period engravings, speeches, and artifacts. The actual grammar book studied by Lincoln in his effort to master English, the notes he prepared in advance of his debates with Senator Stephen Douglas, and the personal scrapbook he assembled of newspaper clippings of the debates bring this iconic figure to life.
Other items include campaign and election ephemera and such treasures as an autobiography which Lincoln supplied to admiring biographers, his penciled "Farewell Address" as he boarded the train from Springfield, Ill., his first and second Inaugural Addresses, the Bible upon which he took the oath of office on March 4, 1861, his unforgettable Gettysburg Address, and his impassioned letter to Albert Hodges in defense of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Military enthusiasts will have the opportunity to see the highly critical letter Lincoln wrote but never sent to Gen. George Meade following the Battle of Gettysburg, the signed commission of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as Lieutenant General, several inquiring and sometimes reprimanding letters to Gen. George McClellan, and the letter of thanks to Gen. William T. Sherman for the capture of Savannah, Ga.
The exhibition will include the Lincoln family Bible, a caned chair from the Lincoln and Herndon Law Office on loan from the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, daguerreotype photographs of the Lincoln family and the contents of Lincoln's pockets on the night he was assassinated. A seldom-seen exchange of letters during the 1860 presidential campaign between the Republican candidate and Miss Grace Bedell concerning the possible benefits of his growing a beard will be loaned to the exhibition from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation and the Detroit Public Library. Aspiring poets will enjoy Lincoln's early attempts at this difficult art form, as well as Walt Whitman's Civil War diary and verse.
A companion volume, "In Lincoln's Hand: His Original Manuscripts With Commentary by Distinguished Americans," will feature original essays about the most important Lincoln documents, including the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's Second Inaugural, by people such as writers John Updike, E.L. Doctorow, and Walter Mosley; Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush; Lincoln and Civil War scholars Drew Gilpin Faust, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and James McPherson; and actors Liam Neeson and Sam Waterston. The book, published by the Library of Congress with Bantam Dell, goes on sale Jan. 27, 2009.
An all-day Lincoln symposium March 4, 2009 (the 148th anniversary of Lincoln's first inauguration), at the Library of Congress will feature six award-winning scholars: William Lee Miller, James M. McPherson, Douglas L. Wilson, Lucas Morel, Harold Holzer, and Elizabeth D. Leonard.
The Library of Congress also will hold teacher institutes Feb. 27 and 28, March 3-5, March 27 and 28, and April 6-8 to equip educators from across the country to teach about Abraham Lincoln through the use of primary and Web-based materials. Participants will develop strategies and curriculum materials they can use in their school districts, schools and classrooms.
"With Malice Toward None" opens to the public from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 12, 2009, on the second floor of the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building at 10 First Street S.E., Washington D.C. Normal visitor hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday, recommence the following day.
After the exhibit closes in Washington, it will travel to The California Museum in Sacramento, Calif. (spring/summer 2009); the Newberry Library in Chicago (fall 2009); the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis (winter/spring 2010); the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta (fall 2010); and the Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha, Neb. (winter 2011).
Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. It is home to the collections of 23 U.S. presidents and some of the most extensive collections of Lincolniana in the world. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions. Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its Web site at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a new, personalized Web site at myLOC.gov.
A compilation of more than 500 illustrations drawn from the unparalleled Civil War collections of the Library of Congress, The American Civil War: 365 Days comprises a vivid visual history of one of the most tumultuous and pivotally important eras in the history of the United States. From pre-war verbal clashes over the South's "peculiar institution" of slavery, through the opening shots at Fort Sumter and early battles that smashed the assumption that the war would be short; through the huge, brutal clashes at Shiloh, Gettysburg, and the Union's 1864 Overland Campaign and the North's gradual acceptance of African American soldiers; to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the assissination of Abraham Lincoln, and the continuing reverberations of the war, The American Civil War constitutes a telling mosaic describing America's most costly and rending conflict.
The book is introduced by Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Confederate War and Lee and His Army in Confederate History and editor of the "Civil War in America" series at the University of North Carolina Press. Text by Margaret E. Wagner, coauthor and coeditor of The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, places the images in context and encompasses many quotations from Civil War figures. The wide variety of images include drawings by Civil War artist-correspondents; contemporary photographs by Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julian Vannerson, and others; maps drawn during the war by talented Confederate topographical engineer Jedediah Hotchkiss; contemporary color lithographs; as well as woodcuts from Civil War-era illustrated newspapers, the manuscript of the Gettysburg Address, theatrical posters, and recruiting broadsides.
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- Mere ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor the copyright. The law provides that transfer of ownership of any material object that embodies a protected work does not of itself convey any rights in the copyright.
Minors may claim copyright, but state laws may regulate the business dealings involving copyrights owned by minors. For information on relevant state laws, consult an attorney.
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