Peggy J. Parks – författare

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.

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.