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Campaign ads are inescapable, especially in election years. Asking Questions about Political Campaigns shows what goes into those ads, how successful campaigns get their messages across, and how political campaigns and the media influence each other. Case studies prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of specific issues. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

How did people communicate before telephones, the Internet, and e-mail? Read this book to discover the history of communication from smoke signals and cave paintings to radio and television.

What does it mean to be biased? Emerging readers need to know the differences between facts, fiction and opinions. Readers will also learn how facts, fiction and opinions affect advertisements, news reports, blogs and more. Straightforward, neutral text and vivid photographs provide readers with the tools they need to evaluate and understand the media literacy concept of facts, fiction and opinions.

This book helps children learn how to think accurately with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to think outside the box, take risks and find new ways to do things. As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of logical minds from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their critical thinking skills. The books boost growth mindset, as the reader is asked to challen...

Is it Art? is a series of books focusing on exciting contemporary art forms. From graffiti to junk sculptures and from urban street art to installations, Is it Art? offers young readers examples from each medium and tells the story behind their creation. The series also encourages discussion and suggests activities so that readers can try making their own art.So what is Junk Sculpture? Well, it's basically rubbish! Junk sculpture can be made from just about anything that has been thrown away, fr...

Go behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Uprisings in the Middle East, we look at the ideas of revolution and change that have swept across southwest Asia and North Africa in recent years. We examine why these changes are taking place now and look at who is taking part in these events and what has prompted them to do so. We consider why the Middle East is so important to those who live in other parts of the world...

"Earthrise tells the story of the first time the planet Earth was photographed in color from space. The photo, later called Earthrise, was taken in 1968 by the astronauts on Apollo 8, the first US space mission to break free of Earth's orbit and circle the Moon. The Apollo 8 astronauts were surveying the lunar surface for places to land future missions. As they were charting the Moon, they happened to look up just as Earth, in a flash of color and life, was rising above the darkness of space and...

The news media is a 24-hour presence, endlessly pumping images and information through the air, beaming it down from space, transmitting it through cables and phone lines across the Internet. Out of this torrent of information, all delivered in about the same tone of importance, it is sometimes difficult to sift through and determine what really is significant. From newspapers and magazines to radios, televisions, and the Internet, today's consumers often rely on the news media for unbiased, rel...

This book helps children learn how to think scientifically with logic puzzles, challenges and activities. It encourages the reader to approach problems in a methodical way using a scientific method, and reveals how thinking scientifically helps us to understand how the world works . As well as puzzles, the book explores the stories of scientific minds from history to help children learn from the brilliant men and women of the past. Project Logic helps children aged 8+ to test and improve their...

From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American history!

More than 65 million people are displaced in the world today and at least 17 million are refugees. This topical title addresses the issues surrounding how the world, and western countries in particular, deal with the overwhelming scale of refugees and immigrants flooding across borders.