Discusses the effects and dangers of amphetamine use, describes the industry producing them, recounts the stories of various people who have abused them, and explains how to get help with this problem.
Discusses several aspects of the AIDS epidemic, including its origins, its effects on the body, treatment, prevention, public health, legal matters, and other topics, and provides a glossary and further reading list.
A brief introduction to the life of Communist leader Fidel Castro that discusses his role in the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, his friendship and rivalry with fellow revolutionary Che Guevara, his contribution to revolutionary movements in Latin America and Africa, and other related topics.
This book looks at how movies and videos are made and how they have changed over the years. It outlines how movies are made not only to entertain, but also to persuade through skillfully hidden messages. This book also describes the techniques filmmakers use and how the rapidly changing technology might affect the movies and videos of the future.
This book looks at the way the internet and the world wide web have developed. It explains the rapid growth and how it has made fortunes for a few people. It outlines potential problems such as threats to personal safety, financial fraud, and the spread of damaging computer viruses.
Discusses the history of advertising and describes how businesses use advertisement to target consumers, taking a look at print, Internet, and television ads as well as viral marketing.
This book gives you a look at how television programming has changed over the years and how the program makers target audiences and the commercial influences behind their decisions. Shows how the freedom of speech in broadcasts needs to be balanced against the need to be fair to all parts of society.
