Author Peggy J. Parks carefully and sensitively explores sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in detail, covering causes, diagnosis, and current medical research. She offers young readers and researchers an effective means of understanding this syndrome.
Author Peggy J. Parks tackles a crucial reality of being a teenager, depression. She offers young readers and researchers a means of understanding depression and its ramifications. Readers will be given essential insight into what causes depression, how people live with it, and the latest information about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Are witches real or merely the imaginings of hysterical minds and irrational folklore? Witches have been a source of fear and fascination for thousands of years. This title traces the subject of witches from ancient times through today, and also explores the massive witch hunts that ended in the executions of thousands of alleged witches.
As Earth's population has continued to grow, reaching 7 billion people in 2011, much of the planet's available fresh water has become polluted, making it unfit for drinking, cooking, or bathing, and contributing to deadly maladies known as waterborne illnesses. This book will provide an overview of waterborne illnesses and explain the magnitude of the problem. Individual chapters focus on defining and explaining waterborne illnesses, such as Cholera, Dysentery, Hepatitis A, Polio, Typhoid Fever, and SARs, identifying sources of water contamination and geographic areas most affected, and exploring how natural disasters may greatly magnify the problem. Global efforts to prevent waterborne illness are also discussed.
Explores the pros and cons of several smoking-related issues including; personal responsibility, corporate responsibility, second-hand smoke, and banning smoking. Text contains critical thinking components in regards to social issues and history. Describes common argumentative techniques such as; slippery slope, scare tactics and using testimonials. Contains essay-writing exercises. Includes bibliographic notes, timeline, glossary, index, and places to go for further research. Aligns with Common Core Language Arts Anchor Standards for Reading Informational Text and Speaking and Listening.
From haunted mansions, airplanes, and lighthouses, to the sightings of relatives who died long ago, many people are convinced that ghosts are real and walk among us. Using real-life stories, this book examines some of the most interesting ghosts and hauntings, how ghost hunters go about their work, and scientific theories that attempt to explain paranormal phenomena.
People all over the world use the Internet for everything from sending emails to paying bills, from buying cars to getting a college education. This book gives readers an in-depth look at the Internet: its history, how the World Wide Web made it accessible, ways people use it, and its dark side.
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