Product Description: This updated encyclopedia examines the basics of nutrition and dieting, presenting the important people, concepts, and criticisms involved and examining the pros and cons of different plans. • Offers a gateway to further study through helpful appendixes, expanded bibliography, and a listing of web resources• Includes a helpful chronology that traces the history of dieting in the United States • Introduces a wide variety of weight loss methods• Contains information on particular diets, support groups, and weight-loss service...read more

Provides information about diet and nutrition, describing a variety of popular diets, current trends, and new developments in fitness and nutrition.

Looks at devices which were developed or improved by the space program that are now a part of everyday life, including baby food, doppler radar, joysticks, robotic surgery, stadium roofs, and toy gliders.

Discusses opening a bank account, budgeting, paying for college, financing a car, and tax-deferred retirement accounts, and looks at advertising in the classroom, bankruptcy, and identity theft. (view table of contents)

Profiles individuals fighting for and against gun control, from victims of gun violence to gun manufacturers, presenting their arguments and the reasons behind their involvement in the debate. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Both the history of the gun control debate, as well as the focus the debate will take in the future, are explored in this unique collection of over 200 documents spanning 200 years. High school and undergraduate students can use this resource—one of the largest collections of key documents concerning the issue of gun control—to explore the seminal arguments for and against further restrictions on guns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)