Product Description: Early civilizations, Native Americans, the English colonies, slavery, the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights begin the journey and lay the foundation for the United States of today. The Handy American History Answer Book takes a walk through the economic, political, and social forces, as well as the military conflicts that created, changed, and built the United States...read more

Product Description: The only book of its kind to examine all aspects of a young adult's legal rights at school, at work, and at home, including recent developments in teen-oriented legislation.• Includes excerpted primary sources and thought-provoking sidebars that allow readers to directly engage with the law• Provides simple and straightforward answers to common legal concerns and questions asked by teens and parents• Reveals areas of the law that are still in debate• Clarifies what kind of speech is permissible online and the occasions when parents and schools can legally limit what is expresse...read more

Product Description: A Walk through the AgesOur country and the world is changing fast, and a knowledge of history helps us understand the hows, whats, and whys of modern civilization. Fully revised and updated, this new edition of The Handy History Answer Book answers over 1,000 how-what-why questions...read more

Product Description: Presents the political, historical, and cultural significance of the Fourth Amendment.

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Product Description: Three major areas of controversy in child custody are examined--the viability of the best interest of the child standard; the rights of custodial and noncustodial parents; and the impact of race in child custody proceedings.

Product Description: A complete look at every Presidents' who, what, when, where, why, and, how …Offering an engaging overview of the U.S. presidency and all past presidents, this valuable tome asks a variety of questions, from the trivial to the topical, that further expands one's understanding of America's highest office...read more

Product Description: Known as "the sport of kings," horse racing has been around the track, so to speak. Out of the gates as early as ancient Greece’s Olympic Games, racing would truly find its footing centuries later when Arabian horses were brought to England during the Crusades...read more

Product Description: Mixed martial arts hasn’t been dubbed the world’s fastest growing sport for nothing. It’s noticeably rocked the sporting world since the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship nearly two decades ago—and has even shaken up the pop culture scene...read more

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Product Description: Discussing the Fourth Amendment's guarantee of protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, this book examines issues pertaining to the media's need to gather news, the government's power to conduct surveillance, employers' ability to monitor and control the workplace, and the ways technology has challenged this fundamental American right...read more

Product Description: From public aid to parochial schools to censorship of library books, Americans are intensely interested in their expressive rights of speech, press, assembly and religion.  They are also concerned about censorship, tolerance of pornography and obscenity, and about their security in a post 9-11 world...read more

Product Description: Despite the thirst for more information about women's golf, very little exists about its history outside of books about the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Hudson fills this void, offering a complete history of women in golf. He focuses on the fascinating development of women's golf, the creation of the women's tour, star athletes of the past, the astronomical rise of the present-day tour greats, and the future of the sport...read more