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This volume offers a deep look into the Blues. Author Michael V. Uschan describes this quintessentially American music, charting its evolution out of African American field hollers, slave songs, and spirituals in the late nineteenth century, its emergence from the South and spreading through the U.S. in the early twentieth century, and its influence on later forms of music, including R and B and Rock-and-Roll.

Author Stuart A. Kallen takes readers on a fun exploration of the iPod and other audio / video players. Readers will learn about the digital media explosion, previous frenzies over file-sharing, and the evolution of podcasts, vodcasts, and audiobooks. Readers will also consider the future of this technology.

One of the most stirring moments in history was when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Along with this crucial primary source, readers are treated to an amazing collection of essays about the abolishment of slavery and the Thirteenth Amendment. Readers will evaluate the historical defense of slavery and its rejection, reactions to Lincoln''s proclamation, and they will learn how early Supreme Court rulings actually undermined this amendment''s power. Other topics include segregation, housing developments, road closings, America''s debt to slaves, immigrant labor, modern-day slavery, and slavery in American prisons and suburbs.

Perhaps one of the most hotly debated issues of the 2016 Presidential election was the role of the Electoral College, after the victor was announced. After an introduction to the history of the Twelfth Amendment, readers will examine several topics relating to the Presidential election process, including the Electoral College. Essay sources include Lolabel House, Akhil Reed Amar, Gaye Wilson, Jess Bravin, Vikram David Amar, Jennifer Steinhauer, and George C. Edwards III.

Editor Sylvia Engdahl explores a highly controversial topic, the right to equal protection under the law. This right grants everyone protection, but we haven''t always granted it equally. Timely essays in this volume debate school segregation, a woman''s right in relation to non-consent pregnancy, an unborn child''s rights, the rights of children of illegal immigrants, and gay marriage.

Editor Carrie Fredericks has compiled compelling essays and primary sources on the Nineteenth Amendment, which grants the right to vote to women. Essay sources include Frederick Douglass, Ellen DuBois, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The New York Times, The Associated Press, James E. Potter, and Gloria Steinem.

Due process is probably one of the most important rights that your readers should know about, understand, and keep with themselves for the rest of their lives. Due process is fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen''s entitlement. This collection of essays presents the Fourteenth amendment through several essays that debate is meaning and use. Topics include truancy, double jeopardy, a woman''s right to choose abortion, student suspension, detainees of the war on terrorism, music piracy, and immigration reform.

This volume presents the legal concepts of the Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments in an engagingly simplified, easily understandable way, while reflecting provisions in both the national and state curriculum standards. Readers will look at these two amendments in historical context, examining how they have been tested in the courts and present current controversies and debates. Lastly, readers will examine each amendment''s current relevance.

The right to vote was not always granted to all Americans, which is a horrible blemish on American history, nevertheless this crucial right is held under the Fifteenth Amendment. Readers will examine its historical background, its challenges, and its successes. Readers will come to understand the necessity of ensuring voting rights in contemporary America.

In just one year, between 2010 and 2011, violent school threats increased by 158 percent. This shocking statistic speaks to the unfortunate truth of your readers; their school world contains elements of violence. This volume will help readers to understand this issues, from several different perspectives. Essayists debate the issues, allowing readers to form their own intelligent opinions through critical reasoning. Some of the debates include whether the No Child Left Behind Act discourages reporting of violent, and whether school violence can be prevented. Do guns increase the risk of school violence? Readers will find out while examining the causes of school violence, prevention of school violence, and measures schools take to create a safe environment for students.

The collection of essays that editor Viqi Wagner has compiled for your readers will get them thinking critically about our world and the things we need to be doing in relation to recycling. The Economist essay defines the benefits of recycling, insisting the benefits outweigh the costs. Another essay reports the exact opposite. By reading divergent viewpoints, readers will be able to form intelligent opinions about recycling.

This must-have volume explores the issues surrounding peer pressure. It presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. The sequences of essays guides readers through topics such as brain development, eating and exercise, popularity, parents, individuality, drugs and alcohol, and teacher influence in relation to peer pressure. Do sturdier brain networks help children resist peer pressure? Can organized activities deter negative peer pressure? Readers find answers to questions like these in this guidebook.

This volume explores the issues surrounding English language learners. It presents diversity of opinion on each topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Essays are arranged in a pro versus con format so that more than one intelligent viewpoint is shared. Readers will evaluate such topics as whether bilingual teaching is beneficial, whether demand for English classes outstrips supply, and whether English-only policies in the workplace are discriminatory.

This volume explores the issues surrounding mental illness. Readers are presented with diversity of opinion on this topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will learn about the causes and diagnosis of mental disorders. They will evaluate effective treatment methods. Readers will also learn about a woman who survives with schizophrenia, and another who lives with bipolar disorder.

Is a ban on gay marriage prejudice? Is America more sexist than racist? Is legislation needed to help fight violence that is based on prejudice? These are among a few of the questions that are answered in this book''s collection of essays. This book presents diversity of opinion on each topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will evaluate for themselves whether or not they agree with the answers that they find.

This encyclopedia provides information on individuals, groups, places, events, and issues related to terrorism in the United States and internationally. Readers will learn about state-sponsored terrorism, religious terrorism, right-wing and left-wing terrorism. Entries include coverage on terrorist leaders and terrorist organizations as well as entries on the people, agencies, and organizations that are specialized in fighting terrorism.

This A-to-Z reference of the European Renaissance features entries on important people, places, and events, and chronicles developments in such areas as the arts, science, religion, and politics. Entries cover key historical figures, significant events, and influential ideas.

This volume presents compelling entries that provide definitions of important terms, biographies of central figures, and brief narratives of pivotal events that transformed ancient Greece. Students will find quick and easily accessible answers to the difficult questions that arise while researching events, personalities, and issues of Greece''s past. A comprehensive bibliography offers further avenues for research.

From the subjects of adoption to Zoroastrianism, this encyclopedia treats readers to numerous entries on the life and times of ancient Mesopotamia. Readers will learn important terms, read biographies of central figures, and analyze brief narratives of pivotal events that transformed Mesopotamia.

This encyclopedia provides numerous entries covering world religions including gods and other holy figures, concepts, historical figures, places, rites, and festivals. Entries cover major and less prominent religions around the world, describing their histories, tenets, customs, and world views. Readers will view entries that describe the lives of fifty significant figures in the histories of various religions. Also presented are excerpts from eighteen religious writings, speeches, and sacred texts.

Author Don Nardo and Consultant Editor Barbette Spaeth have compiled this volume that provides entries about various aspects of Greek and Roman mythology, grouped in the categories of rulers, heroes, and other human characters. Readers will learn about major and minor gods, animals, monsters, spirits, and forces. Entries cover important places and things, and major myth tellers and their works. Includes retellings of twelve myths.

Rather than a dry, hard-to-understand reference book on our Constitutional rights, this collection of essays presents a lively discussion of what "citizenship for all" really means. Essay resources include Akhil Reed Amar, James F. Wilson, Priscilla Huang, Horace Gray, Melville Fuller, and Dmitri Vasillaros. Essay topics include slavery, federal despotism, naturalized citizens, undocumented immigrants, and dual citizenship.

This volume provides an abundance of information on the history of capital punishment, and ongoing opposition to it. Author Bruce E.R. Thompson includes narratives on well-known figures on both sides of the issue. Various methods of execution are explained and their use placed in historical context. Legal terminology important to the debate is defined and explained.

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians established a civilization that continue to fascinate people today. This A-Z encyclopedia provides information about the most important people, places, and practices of ancient Egypt, as well as about ancient Egyptian historical periods, religious beliefs, art, architecture, and concepts related to the Egyptian worldview. In addition, the encyclopedia talks about the Egyptologists and archaeologists who helped advance modern knowledge about this ancient culture. Provides numerous entries covering the world of ancient Egypt.

Lasting from 1861 to 1865, the Civil War pitted brother against brother and resulted in the deaths of well over 600,000 soldiers. This encyclopedia provides information about a variety of topics related to the war and its aftermath, including political issues, generals, battles and campaigns, armies, weapons and ammunition, naval vessels, medical treatments, and aspects of daily life in the military and on the home front.

This encyclopedia provides an abundance of information on the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages began with the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and ended with the fifteenth century Renaissance. Readers will learn about important religious, political, social, and cultural transformations. Entries cover people, events, and philosophies of the medieval age.

This volume examines America''s most controversial war by placing it within the context of over thirty years of warfare in Southeast Asia. The comprehensive list of entries includes discussion of political developments, descriptions of important leaders such as Lyndon B. Johnson and Ho Chi Minh, consideration of the antiwar movement, and the military aspects of the conflict.

This encyclopedia covers all aspects of witchcraft: magical tools, rituals, concepts, and traditions as well as witchcraft-related deities and historical events. It offers entries about important figures in the field of witchcraft, from witch-trial judges and other persecutors to people at the forefront of the modern witchcraft movement. Compelling entries present definitions of important terms, biographies of central figures, and brief narratives of pivotal events.

Editor Heidi Williams has compiled a collection of essays that looks at the concerns that teenage girls and boys have concerning their body image. Readers evaluate the roles that the media, heredity, parenting, weight-loss surgery, and plastic surgery plays in body image. Essay sources include Karen Fanning, Amanda Dawkins, and Todd C. Frankel.