This series shows balanced arguments for and against issues affecting our modern world. The books study each argument in detail and explore the history of each topic.
Looks at some of the causes and experiences of homelessness throughout the world and considers how societies might solve the problem and ensure every person a safe place to live.
Travel and tourism is a wide-ranging sector, involving both personal and business travel and large, medium and small-sized companies. This book describes ways to find work in travel and tourism, together with lists of the most important aspects of jobs int he field. It offers guidance for matching the reader's personality, skills and interests to possible future employment in the industry. It gives details of specific jobs such as marketing and promotions officer, travel agent, holiday representative, tour manager and travel consultant,and describes long-term career paths and wider opportunities. This series gives young people an inside view of how their studies relate to the working world. The text gives an overview of a range of key jobs within the industry and highlights typical training, qualities and skills demanded by employers. It also includes personal diaries from real people, with firsthand accounts of the pluses and minuses of various roles in the workplace.
Explains the nature of slavery and examines the existence of forced labor today, discussing such areas as child workers, migrant workers, and trafficking in people.
Describes the debate about the death penalty raising questions about whether it is justified, whether it is ever humane, who dies and who lives, and whether the death penalty ever makes society safer.
Examines the debate about military intervention focusing on its reasons such as defending national security, intervening to keep peace, intervening to prevent disaster, and the costs of military intervention.
SOCIAL TOPICS & ETHICAL ISSUES. This series shows balanced arguments for and against issues affecting our modern world. The books study each argument in detail and explore the history of each topic. The use of case studies throughout bring the issues to light. Ages 12+.
Part of growing up is about expressing yourself, forming your own opinions and making difficult decisions. This book gives you clear advice about the attitudes towards homelessness and allows you to make your own decisions on how to tackle the problem.
Based on our popular Need to Know series, Just the Facts aims to inform and educate teenagers about a wide range of issues without patronizing the reader or over simplifying the issue.
Explores the concept of homeland as a place where people belong and reviews the cases of people who are denied the right to an independent homeland. Suggested level: secondary.
Introduces the concept of justice as fairness in terms of the law and social justice and looks at cases of injustice and denial of rights from around the world. Suggested level: secondary.
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