Product Description: Learn About The Destructive Effect Non-Native Plants Can Have On An Environment.

Product Description: Learn About The Destructive Effect Non-Native Plants Can Have On An Environment.

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Product Description: Introduces eco-friendly building materials and techniques and the science behind them.

Product Description: The continuing growth of the world population creates more and more problems and issues that need to be resolved. Readers will learn the historical background of this issue leading up to its current and future impact on society.

Product Description: This title examines one of the world’s critical issues, the Mexican drug war. Readers will learn the historical background of this issue leading up to its current and future impact on society. Elements of Mexico’s drug war such as cartels, police and government corruption, kidnappings, and The United States’s involvement are discussed in detail, as are the drugs that are traded such as marijuana, opium, heroin, methamphetamine, and ecstasy...read more

Product Description: This title examines one of the worlds critical issues, human trafficking. Readers will learn the historical background of this issue leading up to its current and future impact on society. Various forms of modern slavery including debt bondage, child labor, prostitutes, sex slaves, and child soldiers are discussed in detail, as well as risk factors for trafficking such as poverty, violence, and cultural, traditional, or religious views...read more

Product Description: This volume provides an overview of some of options available in selecting a "green" occupation.

Product Description: Essential Events explores historic happenings around the globe and how those events have sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company...read more

Product Description: This title examines the worlds critical issues surrounding mental disorders. Readers will learn the historical background of mental disorders, leading up to the current and future impact on society. Discussed in detail are the treatment of mental disorde

Product Description: Save the Planet: Keeping Water Clean applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers...read more

Product Description: This title examines an important historic event, terror at the Munich Olympics. Readers will learn the background of the conflict between Jews and Muslims regarding Israel and Palestine, and its influence on this terrorist act, as well as the background o

Product Description: Save the Planet: Using Alternative Energies applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers...read more

Product Description: Save the Planet: Using Alternative Energies applies the NCTE/IRA Standards to science and social studies content. Each book sends the reader on a fact-finding mission, posing an initial challenge and concluding with questions and answers...read more

Product Description: This title examines the world’s critical issues surrounding children’s rights. Readers will learn the historical background of children’s rights, leading up to the current and future impact on society. Child marriage, child labor, educational rights of ch