Allman, Toney

Provides teens with a solid and practical introduction to living a healthy lifestyle, covering healthy diet, grocery shopping, cooking, exercising, mental health, and more.

"Birthright citizenship has become an integral part of the larger immigration debate because it is perceived by some as a policy ripe for abuse, as well as a potential threat to American society and culture. The origins of American birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment are explored, along with the debate about the role it plays in illegal immigration, the phenomenon of birth tourism, and the controversy over maintaining or restricting current policy"--Provided by the publisher.

What hands on jobs entail, what they pay, and future prospects are discussed along with insights from industry insiders.

Explores changing views of food and food production. Topics covered include sustainable agriculture, meat alternatives, and genetic engineering.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of cockroaches.

"Antibiotics revolutionized the practice of medicine. Deadly diseases and infections became easily curable and untold millions are alive because of antibiotics. The ways industry, agriculture, and medical research function and have developed have been transformed as well. Nevertheless, the bacterial world's response to antibiotics is as dramatic as the results of the human discovery. The rise of drug resistant bacteria is challenging the medical world as never before and threatening the advent of a post-antibiotic era that scientists are determined to forestall"--Provided by the publisher.

Women have made more significant and important contributions to science than most people realize. Profiled in this book are six admirable women scientists and inventors: Lise Meitner, Pearl Kendrick, Virginia Apgar, Jane Goodall, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Rosalind W. Picard.

Describes the everyday life during Medieval times.

Presents a realistic picture of diabetes, what is known about its causes, what it?s like to live with it, and the latest on treatments and cures.

Many issues regarding personality and how it develops are discussed in terms of the five-factor personality model accepted by psychologists today in this title.