Greenhaven publishing llc jun 2009 (11 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The right to vote was not always granted to all Americans, which is a horrible blemish on American history, nevertheless this crucial right is held under the Fifteenth Amendment. Readers will examine its historical background, its challenges, and its successes. Readers will come to understand the necessity of ensuring voting rights in contemporary America. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The United States seems enmeshed in the Middle East permanently, with the reason for involvement changing year after year. However, this is not the only way to look at U.S. involvement. This anthology interrogates this question and others from diverse and conflicting perspectives, helping readers to understand the key issues and ideas underpinning U.S. policy in the Middle East. This reading and analysis ties into Social Studies curriculum.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a series of essays that debate various topics about ethanol, such as the politics of ethanol production; government subsidies as they relate to corn-based ethanol production; and the relationship between ethanol and the retail price of food. Includes primary and secondary sources and essays from The Economist, Ethanol Across America, the American Coalition for Ethanol, Kiran Bhat, and Elizabeth Svoboda. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Elie Wiesel witnessed the horrors of genocide firsthand when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and later to Buchenwald. Some critics characterize his book, which he published a little over a decade after the war's ending, as memoir. Weisel refers to Night as a deposition, one that constantly questions why genocide happened and what it reveals about human nature. This compelling volume interrogates these questions by introducing readers to a wide range of essays that explore themes about and surrounding genocide as they relate to Wiesel's work. The book also provides contemporary perspectives on genocide. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Editor Debra A. Miller has compiled compelling essays that debate many issues of disaster response. Readers will evaluate the effectiveness of government response to natural disasters and how it can be improved. A question-and-response format prompts students to examine complex issues from different views. Fact boxes are included to summarize important information for researchers.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Editor Uma Kukathas has carefully selected the primary source writings in this book, to provide readers with a broad array of viewpoints on the global food crisis. The essays in this anthology provide contrasting views on important issues relating to global foot shortages. A question-and-response format prompts readers to examine complex topics from multiple angles. Topics such as censorship in schools and the censoring of information which could be a threat to national security are examined from multiple viewpoints, giving the reader an inclusive view of both sides of an argument. Important facts, perfect for report writing, are dispersed throughout in boxed insets.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Present your readers with a truly global review of the issue of child labor. Essays are collected from highly respected international sources, sharing viewpoints from places such as Bolivia, West Africa, South Asia, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Ireland, and Brazil. Readers will learn about children who work in coal mines, the sex trade, agriculture, and other industries. Essential essays share information regarding the responsibility of corporations to stop child labor. Essay sources include The Anti-Slavery Society, Global March Against Child Labour, The Child Workers in Asia Foundation, International Labour Organization, and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - There may be a perceived American way of doing or seeing things, but today's digital world allows kids to live outside of our culture while living in it. This essential volume communicates what the world view of freedom of expression is. Editor Alicia Cafferty Lerner has painstakingly tracked down several articles and essays that explain what this concept is in such places as Slovakia, Turkey, Russia, Kenya, China, and England. Forms of expression examined includes blogging, journalism, singing, drama, internet searching, and mural painting. Essay sources include Freemuse, Kuwait Times, and The Economist.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This assembly of essays takes readers on a rich survey of various concepts and issues relating to Japan. The essays are in a pro versus con format, so that readers benefit from more than one perspective. Across four chapters, readers will explore whether Japan reconciles its past with its present, how modern living conflicts with tradition, the global role that Japan should play, and what the domestic issues of Japan are. Essay sources include Robert D. Retherford, Naohiro Ogawa, Mariko Sakai, Shozo Nakayam, Atsushi Ishii, and Ayako Okubo.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Readers are introduced to several issues and viewpoints about Latin America. Essays are arranged in a pro versus con format that shares several viewpoints about each topic. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate how strong the Latin American economy is, what its political climate is, what role the U.S. should play in Latin America, and what the current status of human rights is in Latin America. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book provides a compendium of viewpoints, both pro and con, on several issues relating to the prevalence of gangs in American society. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate whether gangs are widespread, what factors may drive people into gangs, what steps to prevention should be, and what the impact of gangs on society is. Essayist Eloisa Ruano Gonzalez explains that girl gang memberships is on the rise, while Joan Smith debates that this is exaggerated. Nicholas V. Lampson claims that gangs often traffic in drugs, while Trevor Bennett and Katy Holloway emphatically state that not all gang members are involved in drugs. By presenting your readers with divergent viewpoints about these and other gang-related topics, you are activating their critical-thinking skills to develop their own well-rounded opinions.…