social aspects

Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals personal stories of working class Americans, including coal miners, cowboys, and air traffic controllers.

Explores genocide in Anne Frank's,The Diary of a Young Girl, through a work of literature and the lens of the major social issue reflected in it. Also features carefully selected content representing a variety of perspectives.

Presents resources for better understanding the complex, broad, and evolving legal issues about dress that is facing American teens.

This comprehensive volume examines the beginnings of the Internet, the development of the various content and services within cyberspace, and the potential risks of operating within an increasingly interconnected world.

Explores how climate has influenced the prosperity and downfall of civilizations throughout history, placing the destruction of New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina in context.

Examines the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and teachers within the America's public school system, analyzes legal developments that concern their rights, discusses the First and Fourteenth amendments, and addresses the implications of asserting and protecting the rights of the LGBT community.

Describes a future America in which computers solve all your problems, machines give you everything you need, and you are taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society.

Describes advancing technology in the early twenty-first century and threats to the security of personal information, discussing passports, Blackberry devices, iPads, commercial photocopiers, and other gadgets with digital capabilities, and explaining ways to embrace technology in daily life and remain protected.

Examines the events that surround some of the tragic school shooting incidents that took place in the United States during the twentieth century, and discusses the cases of Brenda Spencer, Wayne Lo, Evan Ramsey, Luke Woodham, and others.

The authors presents reasons that technological innovations in artificial intelligence, robotics computing, biology and other growing technologies will improve the future of humanity.