Books with author Robert Allen

This is a major new edition, now in colour, of best-selling Oxford Mini School Thesaurus for 10+. It is the best quick reference tool available today and is particularly useful for primary school leavers preparing to start secondary school. Packed with information, it includes over 150,000synonyms and alternative words and phrases, up-to-date words from the curriculum, and level-appropriate examples and context to lead the pupil to the most appropriate synonym. The clear and accessible design, the alphabet down the side of every page, and specially highlighted information on overusedwords and topic words, makes finding the word you are looking for quick and easy. An extended supplement on Top 10 Tips for Writing Narrative will give pupils all the writing support they need. The Oxford Mini School Thesaurus is compact enough to fit into any pocket, has a durable, vinyl cover andis perfect to use at home and at school.

This superb collection chronicles the most important Supreme Court cases on church-state relations over the past three decades. It includes extensive coverage of the Court's major decisions concerning prayer in state legislatures, the pledge of allegiance, display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings, religious displays on public property, school prayer, vouchers for religious schools, religion in science class, and much more.Beginning with a carefully prepared historical overview, which places the first amendment in the context of 18th-century debates over religious freedom, Robert Alley offers a fresh analysis of the amendment's origins. He then presents fifty recent and historical cases without editorial comment, permitting readers to arrive at their own individual interpretations. In addition to the text of the majority decision, each case is followed by the vote of the justices as well as selected dissenting opinions.Unlike news accounts and other texts, this unique volume is the only objective presentation of the justices' decisions, in the Court's own words, and it includes the entire canon of subjects that bear the label "church and state."This clearly written, accessible book will be valuable for classroom use, as a library resource, and as an excellent introductory reader for anyone interested in what the Supreme Court has decided on religion in public places and schools.

Product Description We speak of liberty in the United States all the time. But do we really understand the concept? We assume that liberty is synonymous with "doing what we want.” But liberty is far more than mere 1960s slogans. Liberty is freedom from arbitrary control; it is freedom to exercise the unalienable rights endowed upon us by our Creator; it is freedom from oppressive power exerted by government; it is freedom from all forms of tyranny. We like to think that our liberty today is as pure as it was at the beginning of our nation—even better, many of us think—but we are wrong. Our liberty has been weakened over the past 100 years; we are not as free as our founders intended. We like to think that our liberty is strong and resilient—but we are wrong. Our liberty is extremely fragile and can be gone as swiftly as the next election. We like to think that the only true threats to our liberty are foreign—but we are wrong. The greatest threat to our liberty, to the liberty of any nation, to the liberty of any civilization is always the threat that comes from within. Over the past 100 years we have traded bits, pieces and more recently, large blocks of our liberty for government promises to take care of our financial, educational, safety, health and other daily needs. All we have to show for this trade is an illusion of a government-provided safety net that is no more real than a chimerical siren call. Unfortunately, as a nation we have altered how we view the role of government in our lives. As a result, we now find ourselves on the brink of self-imposed tyranny. The Democratic Party, with control of both our Congressional and Executive branches of government, is now trying to consolidate power further—and attempting to do so with complete disregard for the will of the American people. They are pushing a progressive agenda behind the false flag of social justice, an agenda that will financially enslave our children, our grandchildren and generations to come. America as we know it will be relegated to the darkest corner of history. The only way to prevent them from succeeding is for the people to be educated on how we have gotten to this point; to know what it really means to be a people of liberty; to appreciate what our founders intended for our nation. Author Robert Allen Bonelli has written a treatise on liberty that is different from most currently published works on the subject. It is a modern-day Common Sense, educating the reader to the potential threat to American liberty in a reasoned but passionate way. He pulls together relevant American history; a review of societal structures and philosophies; the Constitution; our nation's financial challenges; individual values; a clear and historically supported presentation of the threat to liberty from within; and positive peaceful solutions to the vanquishing the threat. As he writes near the close of his work, "We are a people of liberty who have awakened to see our liberty threatened; who have joined the battle and are ready to defend our liberty." He concludes with these words, "When we acknowledge the sacrifice of so many throughout our history and allow their sacrifice to inflame a passion for freedom that will burn forever, then we will stand together, looking out over a free world made safer by this great nation and we will all admire the brilliant light of liberty rising."