Chelsea House Publishers Expands Social Studies Offerings.Business Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004 Chelsea House Introduces Five New Series and 24 New Titles; Supports National and State Social Studies and Geography Standards Chelsea House Publishers, a leading nonfiction publisher of curriculum-oriented books for children and young adults and a unit of Haights Cross Communications, Inc., today announced five major new series and 24 titles in its industry-leading Social Studies Library. The new texts are available immediately. "Chelsea House is proud to add these new series and titles to our library of Social Studies books for Grade 9 to college. Chelsea House continues to attract the most distinguished scholars and authors to write compellingly on important topics of our day. We believe these new series will support efforts by schools to strengthen student knowledge in social studies and geography," said Sally Cheney, Chelsea House Publishers vice president of Editorial. The new 2004 Social Studies series and titles are: Arbitrary Borders: Political Boundaries in World History (Series Editor: James Matray, chairman, History Department, California State University/Chico) -- The Division of the Middle East, The Mason-Dixon Line Mason-Dixon Line, boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43'26.3"N and lat. 39°43'17.6"N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, , The Iron Curtain Iron Curtain Political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. , Vietnam: The 17th Parallel. Defeating Terrorism/Developing Dreams: Beyond 9/11 and the Iraq War Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. (Series Editor: Arthur Shostak, emeritus professor of Sociology, Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. ) -- Culture Clash/Media Demons Demons See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism. ademonist one who denies the existence of the devil or demons. bogyism, bogeyism recognition of the existence of demons and goblins. , Trade Towers/War Clouds, Making War/Making Peace, In the Shadow of War. Religions of the World (Series Editor: Ann Marie B. Bahr, professor of Religious Studies, South Dakota State University South Dakota State University, at Brookings; land-grant support; coeducational; chartered 1883 as Dakota Agricultural College, opened 1884. In 1907 it became South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and in 1964 its present name was adopted. ) -- Christianity, Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism. Rivers in American Life & Times (Series Editor: Tim McNeese, associate professor of History, York College York College: see New York, City University of. ) -- The Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. , The Missouri River Missouri River River, central U.S. The longest tributary of the Mississippi River, it rises in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana. It flows east to central North Dakota and south across South Dakota, forming sections of the South Dakota–Nebraska boundary, the , The Columbia River, The Ohio River, The Hudson River, The Mississippi River. Spiritual Leaders & Thinkers -- Mary Baker Eddy, Martin Luther, Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Aimee Semple McPherson Noun 1. Aimee Semple McPherson - United States evangelist (born in Canada) noted for her extravagant religious services (1890-1944) McPherson , Mohandas Gandhi, Thomas Merton. About Chelsea House Publishers: Chelsea House Publishers, founded in 1966 and located near Philadelphia, PA, is a leading publisher of high-quality, nonfiction books for children and young adults on such topics as American history, multicultural studies, biographies, sports, science, and health. In addition, Chelsea House offers hundreds of volumes of literary criticism, edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University, as well as reference books for older readers. 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