"This book helps children to develop critical thinking and debating skills. It examines the topic of the Internet and social media in a lively and accessible way. Information is presented to help readers deliberate, debate, and decide for themselves. This book looks at issues surrounding the use of the Internet and social media, such as reliability of information, cyber-safety, and whether it is healthy to spend lots of time online"--Provided by the publisher.
Examines the history, geography, climate, economy, transportation, natural resources, industry, politics, religions, culture, and people of Israel, and looks at the future challenges facing the nation. Includes a time line and glossary.
Examines the principal causes and events of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime in Germany between 1918 and 1945 and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before and during this period.
Examines issues of health and disease in the Middle Ages, discussing the medical knowledge inherited from the ancient world, medicine and treatments, famine and death, leprosy and plague, the Black Death, the development of medical schools and hospitals, and other topics.
Presents information about the design, construction, use, maintenance, demolition, and disposal of buildings, offering an overview of what happens at each of these stages in a building's life cycle.