Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish.Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish 99 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown NY 10591 1-800-831-9881 marshallcavendish.com Two excellent new series collections are highly recommended picks for elementary-level libraries, promising steady and lasting reference materials suitable for reports. Rebecca Stefoff's 'World Historical Atlases' series ($18.95 each) are outstanding: each offers almost fifty pages packed with facts and including an index, bibliography, glossary, and just the right blend of maps and color illustrations and information per page. Exploration (0761416404), Ancient Mediterranean (0761416412), Medieval World (0761416420), Ancient Near East (0761416390) and Asian Empires (0761416439) each excel in inviting younger than usual audiences for their subjects, using large print, attractive illustrations, and a 3-chapter breakup breakup The division of a company into separate parts. The most famous breakup to date was the 1984 division of AT&T (formerly, American Telephone & Telegraph Company). This breakup was intended to increase competition in the communications industry. easy for both browsing and study. Chronological timelines and highlights of key events and people make these easy studies. Benchmark's 'Health Alert' series titles ($19.95 each) are also highly recommended picks for elementary grade levels 3-5: each book holds a little over sixty pages of health information, including an index, glossary, and bibliography of both web sites and books. Different writers author each book: Ruth Bjorklund for Asthma (0761418-032), Marlene Targ Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. for Lung Cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. (0761418024), Heart Disease by Johannah Haney (0761418016), Depression by ennifer Rozines Roy (0761418008), Marlene Targ Brill also provides Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. (0761417990) and Haney also Juvenile Diabetes juvenile diabetes n. Insulin-dependent diabetes. (0761417982). Each book includes a history of the disease, treatment options, physiology, and the latest research. Don't miss Stephanie True Peters' 'Epidemic!' series ($20.95 each): lesser-known historical facts for grades 6 and older provide medical and social history under one cover. The Black Death (0761416331), Smallpox smallpox, acute, highly contagious disease causing a high fever and successive stages of severe skin eruptions. The disease dates from the time of ancient Egypt or before. In The New World (0761416374), The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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