Product Description: Through the use of primary source documents, readers can learn about key opinions and legislation in the important field of animal rights and welfare―a current and highly relevant topic.• Provides extensive coverage of a variety of topics, ranging from historic events and information to the latest developments in the field of animal rights and welfare• Presents an impartial, balanced representation of various political/moral perspectives on the issues in animals rights and welfare• Offers primary source material―such as the Wild Horse Annie Act of 1959―that enables readers to review the exact text of important legislation• Gives readers the resources to draw their own informed conclusions by providing opposing perspectives on often-polarizing animal rights and welfare issues, such as the morality of using animals for industrial and medical research, restoring wolves to former hunting grounds, and keeping highly intelligent dolphins and Orcas in captivity• Includes supplemental material that provides additional contex...read more

Product Description: American Decades: Primary Sources, 2000-2009 is the eleventh volume in the best-selling Gale series; it covers the first decade of the twenty-first century. The title is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to explore and analyze the events, people and social trends that have impacted contemporary history...read more

Product Description: This five-volume resource provides exciting details on key events, people and outcomes of approximately 200 major Supreme Court decisions that had a significant impact on American society. Cases are arranged by topic, introduced with an overview essay...read more

Offers information on the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

A comprehensive resource offers information on the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Profiles twenty-five people important to the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, including author Mark Twain, activist Booker T. Washington, inventor Thomas Edison, and tycoon Edward Harriman.

Eighteen documents and collections of illustrations tell the story of the United States during the Golden Age and the Progressive Era, including a firsthand account of the sinking of the Titanic, excerpts from legislation, and pages from catalogs.

Provides the indexes of three works making up the 'U-X-L Gilded Age and Progressive Era reference library' series.

Describes the structure, chemical properties, common compounds, and practical uses for each element

Provides biographies of key figures in American history, a historical almanac of the period, copies of primary source documents, a chronology, a glossary of difficult words, and a cumulative index.

Provides biographies of key figures in American history, a historical almanac of the period, copies of primary source documents, a chronology, a glossary of difficult words, and a cumulative index.

Provides biographies of key figures in American history, a historical almanac of the period, copies of primary source documents, a chronology, a glossary of difficult words, and a cumulative index.

Provides biographies of key figures in American history, a historical almanac of the period, copies of primary source documents, a chronology, a glossary of difficult words, and a cumulative index.

Presents a collection of questions and answers on the presidents of the United States.

Product Description: The new three-volume "Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877, including biographies and primary source documents.

Product Description: U·X·L® Encyclopedia of Water Science explores water science and issues from an international perspective. Topics covered include lakes and streams, oceans, aquatic animals, weather and climate, glaciers, wetlands, ecology, hydropower, commercial fishing, acid rain, recreation, pollution, economics, water conservation, international water law, global warming and much more...read more

Combines the indexes of the three works making up the 'Reconstruction Era reference library' series.

Presents an almanac of the events, issues, and political activities of the Reconstruction era, covering such topics as the end of the Civil War, the radical Republicans, the Reconstruction governments, and white supremacists.

Product Description: The new three-volume "Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877, including biographies and primary source documents.

Product Description: The Reconstruction Era Reference Library provides targeted information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877. Reconstruction Era Reference Library: Biographies examines key figures from the era, such as Ulysses S...read more