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: Designed to teach the basics needed to prepare students for any role in the legal system, Law and the Legal System engages students through the use of examples and practical applications of legal principles. Whether they are interested in pursuing legal careers as lawyers or paralegals, or political science careers, or criminal justice interests, students are provided a basic understanding of the law and how to find it...read more

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.

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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