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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Martin Gitlin
Phones have come a long way thanks to technology, from landlines that required an operator to connect a call to smartphones that come with as many features as a laptop…
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Printing has come a long way thanks to technology, from printing words and images on a flat surface to recreating a life-size version of a car. In 3D Printing in…
What makes something smart? In the Exploring the Internet of Things series, readers discover how inanimate objects, from watches to home speakers to even t-shirts, help people get things done…
Includes bibliographical references (page 30) and index.
The Great Depression was a defining era that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take a closer…
The War Years was a defining era that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take a closer…
Postwar America was a defining era that shaped the United States–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take a…
The Social Revolution and Civil Rights movements were a defining era that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and…
The Rise of Environmentalism was a defining era that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take a…
The Reagan Era was a defining period that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take a closer…
The Birth of Modern Tech was a defining era that shaped America–and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history’s turning points during that era and will take…
Free speech is guaranteed under the First Amendment. Although it may hurt and offend, hate speech is still free, under most circumstances. But what happens when institutions like universities adopt…
To some, the idea of a border wall with Mexico represents a necessary and practical barrier to illegal immigration and the perceived host of ills that are associated with it…
Following the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the twentieth century was haunted by the specter of nuclear annihilation. Locked in a hostile embrace, the U.S. and the USSR engaged in…
The full range of proposals, opinions, and analysis across the long history of the Middle East peace effort is contained here, allowing readers to survey the process and evaluate its…
What basic human rights are afforded to transgender and nonbinary U.S. citizens is a mystery to many. The viewpoints in this resource lay out the issues in a concise and…
Climate change is real…depending on who you ask. Scientists and environmentalists have been going head-to-head and toe-to-toe with CEOs and politicians over our global resources, insisting that a large-scale climate…
Athletes have a unique power in our world today. Their astronomical salaries, enviable lifestyles, and celebrity have tremendous influence over young people. This is reflected in advertising dollars as well…
Ever since Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005, Islamist group Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza have created conflicts with Israel. In 2007, Israel instituted a blockade…
What does it mean to be a citizen in the 21st century? Globalization, the dominance of corporations, the influence of technology, massive immigration, and geopolitical shifts have changed our world…
Approximately ten thousand children are imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in the United States on any given day. Children as young as thirteen have received life sentences in prisons far…
Few would argue that students have the right to protest, but what forms of protest are acceptable? From the Vietnam War era to the more recent National School Walkout, students…
For many years, no means no served as the standard for whether sexual consent is granted, but valid concerns have called for an expansion of this standard. Factors that could…
Since 2016, the United States has experienced an average of nearly one mass shooting per day. Is this the new normal, or can something be done to prevent these slaughters…
Chaz Bono has been in the spotlight for the entirety of his life. As a child, he was a star on his parents Sonny and Cher’s variety show. In 1995…
A look at the hazards of gang membership.
Introduces the issues surrounding the U.S.‘s boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games via the perspectives of three different participants.
