At Issue Series: Alcohol abuse & The Central Intelligence Agency & Cloning & Does capital punishment deter crime? Home schooling & Is global warming a threat? Islamic fundamentalism. (Current Topics).AT ISSUE SERIES. Alcohol abuse. Hai-Song Harvey, ed. 74p. 0-7377-1159-0. The Central Intelligence Agency. Helen Cothran, ed. 128p. 0-7377-1726-2. Cloning. Bruno Leone, ed. 94p. 0-7377-1339-9. Does capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state. History Capital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. deter crime? Roman Espejo, ed. 74p. 0-7377-1337-2. Home schooling home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. . Cindy Mur, ed. 108p. 0-7377-1410-7. Is global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. a threat? Mary E. Williams, ed. 90p. 0-7377-1333-X. Islamic fundamentalism Islamic fundamentalism is a term used to describe religious ideologies seen as advocating literalistic interpretations of the texts of Islam and of Sharia law.[1] Definitions of the term vary. . Ojeda, Auriana, ed. 80p. 0-7377-1330-5. Missile defense. William Dudley, ed. 96p. 0-7377-1329-1. National security. Laura K. Egendorf, ed. 108p. 0-7377-1428-X. Organ transplants. James D. Torr, ed. 92p. 0-7377-1161-2. Performance-enhancing drugs. James Haley, ed. 112p. 0-7377-1169-8. Police corruption. Tamara L. Roleff, ed. 94p. 0-7377-1171-X. Should abortion rights be restricted? Ojeda, Auriana, ed. 80p. 0-7377-1327-5. Should there be limits to free speech? Laura K. Egendorf, ed. 96p. 0-7377-1430-1. Video games. Roman Espejo, ed. 76p. 0-7377-1173-6. White supremacy groups Organizations that believe the Caucasian race is superior to all other races and therefore seek either to separate the races in the United States or to remove all non-Caucasians from the nation. . Claire Kreger, ed. 80p. 0-7377 -1364-X. Gale Group, Greenhaven Press. bibliog. index. c2003. $1245 each. JSA JSA - Japanese Standards Association. These new additions to a series on controversial current issues offers contrasting opinions from various sources, ranging from journalists to lawyers, professors, politicians, doctors, and others, depending on the issue. For example, the title on global warming provides 13 articles in all, beginning with an introduction that gives an overview of the topic. An article entitled "Human-Induced Global Warming is a Serious Problem" (from Insight on the News, March 12, 2001), by Robert T. Watson, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “IPCC” redirects here. For other uses, see IPCC (disambiguation). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment , is followed by an abridgment AN ABRIDGMENT. An epitome or compendium of another and larger work, wherein the principal ideas of the larger work are summarily contained. When fairly made, it may justly be deemed, within the meaning of the law, a new work, the publication of which will not infringe the copyright of the of a 2002 speech by Sallie Baliunas, an astrophysicist, entitled "Human-Induced Global Warming is Insignificant." Other essays maintain that global warming is a myth: is eroding glacial ice; threatens Arctic ice: is not a threat to polar ice; threatens world health: threatens the world economy: will be beneficial: and so on. To assist students, a brief summary of each contributor's opinion is given in a paragraph at the start of each selection, and there is an annotated list of organizations to contact in each volume. The other titles follow a similar format, and all will serve to help students think critically about issues and find information for research papers. A good choice for social studies classes in middle schools and high schools, and for research in public libraries, too. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT |
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