At issue series. Can diets be harmful?AT ISSUE SERIES. Can diets be harmful? Lankford, Ron, ed. 115p. 978-0-7377-3398-3. Cancer. Mooney, Belinda, ed. 100p. 978-0-7377-3412-6. Corporate corruption. Hunnicutt, Susan, ed. 109p. 978-0-7377-3562-8. Do religious groups in America experience discrimination? Ginn, Janel, ed. 131 p. 978-0-7377-3400-3. Human embryo embryo (ĕm`brēō), name for the developing young of an animal or plant. In its widest definition, the embryo is the young from the moment of fertilization until it has become structurally complete and able to survive as a separate organism. experimentation. Haugen, David & Musser, Susan, eds. 97p. 978-0-7377-3244-3. Policing the Internet. Daniels, Peggy Peggy may refer to:
Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely . Egendorf, Laura, ed. 104p. 9780-7377-1976-5. Will the world run out of fresh waster? Miller, Debra A., ed. 128p. 978-07377-3404-1. Greenhaven. bibliogs, indexes, c2007. $19.95 each. SA The At Issue series, for grades 10-12, provides a range of opinions on specific social issues, excerpted from online and print articles and speeches by government officials, journalists, doctors, professors, and others. For example, Will the World Run Out of Fresh Water? offers a dozen short pieces whose authors range from the United Nations/World Water Assessment Programme ("Worldwide Efforts Are Necessary to Prevent a World Water Crisis") to the editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Crime, Corruption & Terrorism Watch ("The Scarcity Scarcity The basic economic problem which arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Because of scarcity, various economic decisions must be made to allocate resources efficiently. of Water Could Lead to War") to professors ("The Water Crisis Does Not Have to Lead to War"). The other slender Slender “though well-landed, an idiot.” [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor] See : Stupidity volumes take similar approaches, as in Policing the Internet, with articles debating, among other subjects, whether the government should regulate the Internet, whether cyberterrorism See cyberwar and information warfare. is a serious threat, and whether social-networking sites contribute to crime. The introduction to each book provides background on the issue and the brief, relatively up-to-date articles are helpfully prefaced by paragraph-long summaries, making the volumes even handier for students doing reports. Annotated lists of organizations are appended. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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