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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There's a line on the blacktop. There's always been a line on the blacktop. Donnie just noticed it. Room One is back, and so is Ellis, still watching, still asking the kind of question that makes the whole room go quiet for a second before everyone moves on like she didn't say anything. This time it's not about who's in charge. It's about what belongs to whom, who gets to decide that, and what happens to a classroom once everyone starts keeping score.>THE SANDBOX continues its deadpan, all-ages satire of a kindergarten that runs less like a classroom and more like a small, increasingly complicated country, where the rules keep moving, the lines keep multiplying, and the only person keeping an honest tally just turned six. Room One. Population: Five. Nobody's in charge. Everybody thinks they are.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On July 16, 1984, Governor Mario Cuomo stood before the Democratic National Convention and told nearly eighty million viewers that this country was less a shining city on a hill than a tale of two cities, one where the ladders reach the top and one where they were pulled up before anyone climbing them today had a chance to use them. Government, he said, owes its citizens a floor, the way a family does not stop feeding a child who cannot yet earn a wage. Fifty-nine days later, he stood before the theology department at Notre Dame and said the opposite: that his own church's teaching, which he personally accepted, gave him no right to write it into law for citizens who did not share his faith. The same man. The same year. Two podiums, arguing what looks, on the surface, like two different disciplines.>In The Conscience and the Floor, Gerard Tod traces that line, what a citizen is asked to believe against what a citizen is owed to survive, from Kennedy's 1960 promise to keep his church out of the presidency, through Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 radio address proposing a second Bill of Rights, delivered from a chair because he was too ill that night to stand before the Congress he was addressing, to the Supreme Court's 2014 ruling that let a private employer's religious conviction reach into an obligation owed to someone else. This is not a book asking readers to take a side on any single issue. It is asking readers to notice which side of the line their own convictions actually belong on. Some beliefs are yours to keep. Some floors belong to everyone.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1817, a superintendent freshly returned from studying artillery schools in France rebuilt a decaying military academy on a simple premise: an officer who could only execute a memorized procedure was a liability the moment the battlefield stopped matching the manual. In 2026, an unreleased Pentagon memorandum proposes to eliminate civilian tenure at that same academy, and to review every course taught there, line by line, for material judged non-essential or ideologically driven. In The Line and the Lantern, Gerard Tod turns to Sylvanus Thayer's West Point, the University of California's 1950 loyalty-oath firings, the televised collapse of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Army investigation, and Stalin's 1937 purge of the Red Army's own high command. The parallels are not offered as simple repetitions. They trace a recurring choice: build an officer's capacity to reason, or replace that capacity with a test of loyalty, and live with what the second choice costs when judgment is finally needed. This is not a book asking readers to master military doctrine or constitutional law. It asks a simpler question: what does an institution owe the people it sends into situations no manual anticipated, years before it ever hands them an order An oath sworn by someone never taught to think past a checklist is a promise made in a language they were never given the words for.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Secretary of Defense leads a prayer in the Pentagon press room, asking that every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness. A crowd in a cold field nine hundred years ago answers a pope with a single cry: Deus vult, God wills it. The same two words are now tattooed on that Secretary's arm, and he has called the moment that produced them a formative moment in the history of the free world. In The Crown and the Cry, Gerard Tod turns to the First Crusade, Urban II's promise that killing could earn the remission of sin, the massacre that followed the fall of Jerusalem, and the conqueror who refused its crown one week later, to examine a recurring American habit: reaching for God not to comfort the frightened, but to authorize the force. This is not a book asking readers to take a side on faith itself. It asks five simpler questions: Who is speaking, and in what capacity Is God invoked to comfort, or to authorize Would the words sound righteous if the enemy used them first Does the invocation arrive before the act, or after it, as a claim of credit And what restraint does the speaker still owe the people on the other side of the prayer Godfrey of Bouillon said no to a crown once, in the same city, the same week, his own army left the streets running with blood. This volume asks what a republic loses when no one left in office still knows how to say no. He refused the crown. He never once refused the sword beneath it.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A STRAIT WAS CLAIMED IN ONE SENTENCE. THE LAW HAS NEVER MOVED THAT FAST. On August 14, 2026, speaking to a crowd on Long Island, the president said that once the war with Iran was over, he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. Iran's government rejected the claim within a day. Neither side has anything resembling a treaty, a statute, or a vote behind it.In The Word and the Waterway, Gerard Tod follows a mechanism two centuries older than that sentence: the American habit of declaring a territory first and finding, or failing to find, the law to back it up later. The trail runs through an 1856 statute that let any citizen claim an unclaimed island by standing on it; a doctrine, delivered to Congress in 1823, that closed an entire hemisphere to Europe with no navy able to enforce it; a disputed river that started a war in 1846; a queen deposed in 1893 whose kingdom was annexed five years later by a legislative shortcut, after the correct process failed by fourteen votes; a Panamanian revolution that arrived, conveniently, on schedule in 1903; a canal seized by three armies in 1956 and given back within a month; and a purchase of Alaska, in 1867, that needed no declaration at all because the treaty came first.This is not a book about whether the war with Iran is justified, or who should win it. It is a book about what a declaration is actually doing, historically, in the space between the sentence that makes it and the law that would be required to make it real. Some declarations, this book finds, eventually got their law. Others never did.>The waterway is still there. So, for now, is the word standing next to it. …

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