Lankford, Ronald D.

Fifteen essays debate issues regarding materialism in America, discussing such topics as children's materialism, the environment, the economy, happiness, self-improvement, the family, and community.

Contains sixteen articles which debate if the voting age should be lowered and discuss the implications of doing so.

Presents articles, essays, and written speeches with opposing viewpoints on America's dependence on foreign oil.

Presents fifteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues that relate to animal experimentation, and discusses ethics, students dissecting animals in schools, the actions of animal rights groups, and other topics.

Contains sixteen articles that provide a variety of perspectives on issues related to greenhouses gases, debating the source of the gases, their role in global warming, their impact on the environment, whether they should be reduced, and the findings of the scientific community.

Presents a collection of articles that provide various points of view related to the issue of the American economic system, debating whether the wealthy maintain too much power.

A collection of essays that examine the current state of the United States economy from various perspectives, highlighting key events, trends, and people that have influenced American economics in recent years.

Traces the origins of jazz to the African-American musicians of New Orleans in the 1890s, and chronicles the history of the genre through the early twenty-first century.

A collection of fourteen essays that provide firsthand accounts of prostitution, including comments by a former teenage prostitute, a male sex worker, and an Ivy League call girl, and discussing the relationship between prostitutes and feminists, HIV, involuntary prostitution, and other related issues.

A biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, including his childhood in poverty, his fifty-year music career with its peaks and tragic falls, and his impact on today's music.