Looking at the moral, political and economic arguments for and against charities and the giving and receiving of charity, this book addresses key questions and invites discussion on aspects such as: what is a charity?How are charities funded?Who benefits from charities? Is our popular image of a charity correct? What is donor fatigue?This book looks at charities in a wide context, examining the positive and negative aspects : how would those in need survive without the help of charities? Should...
The Union Of 1707 (18th Century Scotland, #1)
The Making Of The Uk 1500-1750 Crown And Parliament
This book gives a compelling account of Stalin's life, from his youth in Georgia to his suspicious death in Moscow. It explains how he rose to power to eventually control his country with a "fist of steel" and propell it into the Cold War. Fascinating quotations and archive photographs bring his personality to life, while authoritative texts analyse his place in history.
A Young Citizen's Guide to: Political Parties (A Young Citizen's Guide)
by Patricia Levy
This title examines the history and modern day role of political parties in the UK political system. It looks at how the two-party system developed, how different political parties have different ideologies and the importance of having different political parties in a modern democracy. An activity at the end aims to encourage the reader to think about what they have read and to critically assess for themselves how effective the party system is. This book should provide a useful resource for the...
World of Work (Macmillan world library: The world of work)
by Jacqueline Dineen
This course material looks at the nation of St Lucia: its landscapes, its people and their history, the way it is governed, how people earn their living, and its life as an independent nation. Modern developments in St Lucia are lighlighted and special attention is paid to international trade and tourism. Like the other books in the "Caribbean Social Studies" series, it includes social studies activities. It is a six-level course for primary to all-age schools. To ensure in-depth coverage for Ye...
Practical, enjoyable and reinforced by score s of playful illustrations, this book makes learning about t he variety of English fun for younger readers. '
Religion and Society Third Edition (RAL) (Religion and Life)
by Victor W. Watton and Robert M. Stone
Support your students with the most reliable textbook for Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies specification A, Unit 8. Written by experts and endorsed by Edexcel, this book fully supports requirements of a current Edexcel GCSE in Religious Studies specification A, Unit 8. - Fully addresses the requirements of the specification in an easy way for your students to understand - Makes difficult topics accessible to your students using clear explanations, illustrations and statistics - Supports studen...
This is part of a series of books designed to provide college and school students with an introduction to key topics in modern business. Questions and activities are interspersed in the text and each of the units in this book concludes with a section which provides two or three other separate activities for students to undertake. This book looks at the role of women. The 1990s present new and exciting opportunities for women to move into management roles, professions and traditional male spheres...
Halloween Party (Fear Street (Unnumbered PB)) (Fear Street)
by R L Stine
- R.L. Stine has more than 41 million copies of his Fear Street books in print- USA Today ranks R.L. Stine America's #1 top-selling author four years running- Stine is "the most popular children's writer in the United States...his work has become gold...[and] his books have been translated into 18 languages".- Publishers Weekly ranks Fear Street the #1 bestselling teen paperback series- Fear Street titles appear regularly on the Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, Publishers Weekly, and USA Todaybestse...
The New Immigrants Set (New Immigrants)
The New Immigrants series focuses on groups that have greatly influenced the United States since the dramatic changes in immigration law after 1965. Each book provides an overview of its respective group's home country, culture, and history and reveals reasons for immigration. Students will also find a discussion of stereotypes, as well as profiles of prominent figures from each group. Abundant full-color photographs are combined with a wealth of informative features - highlight boxes, sidebars,...
On a muggy summer day in 1892, an unassuming, well-dressed shoemaker from New Orleans named Homer Plessy bought a first-class ticket from the East Louisiana Railroad and boarded a passenger car designated ""whites only."" But Plessy's journey was soon derailed. By day's end, he'd been arrested and convicted. His crime? Being black and boarding the wrong railroad car. Plessy's act of defiance constituted a violation of the state's separate-car law, a statute designed to keep the races separated o...
From rioting by immigrants in France to protests against illegal immigration in the United States, the topic of immigration has made headlines all over the world recently. ""Immigration and Migration"" helps put this issue in perspective. This insightful book discusses the many reasons people choose to immigrate or migrate to other countries, such as to escape poverty and seek employment opportunities, as refugees from war, or for political asylum. The financial, cultural, and social contributio...
Peoples and Cultures of Central Africa (Peoples and Cultures of Africa)
Through a detailed and holistic regional study of Central Africa's ethnic groups, cultures, languages, religions, music, dance, art, crafts, and architecture, ""Central Africa"" provides students with a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date review of this region. This volume contains a regional introduction followed by a series of A-to-Z articles on specific ethnic groups, material cultures, performing arts and literature, and religious, social, and cultural topics. This volume also inclu...
As a child in South Korea, Ban Ki-moon wrote a letter to the U.N. secretary-general regarding the Hungarian uprising against Russia. A few years later in the United States, he met President John F. Kennedy. From then on, Ban desired to work for peace, an aspiration that led him to become South Korea's foreign minister in 2004, at a time when tensions between North Korea and its neighbors were heated. Two years later, he ascended to the position of U.N. secretary-general. Ban has worked to show t...
The Forensic Aspects of Poisons (Inside Forensic Science)
by Richard Stripp
The Forensic Aspects of Poisons introduces students to the basic principles of forensic toxicology and the role of poisons in forensic science. Emphasis is placed on the common drugs and poisons that are encountered by a practicing forensic toxicologist and the approach to determining their medicolegal role in establishing the cause of death and disease. Topics explored include homicide by chemical means, the role of drugs and chemicals in other types of accidental and intentional deaths, and ho...
Entertainment on Television (Introducing Media Studies S.)
by Sue Hackman and Wink Hackman
A coursebook for use with all students following media studies courses. It is in three sections: popular genre, making meaning and responding to television. Starting from popular television programmes such as gameshows, sport and soap operas, it explores the practical aspects of television production. The authors move onto the way in which meanings are realized on the screen and the values involved in that realization. The final section considers how audiences make sense of television, and sugge...
A History of Fashion and Costume is an eight-volume set that examines the development of costume and fashion over time - from the earliest cave dwellers to the present - along with the social history that gave rise to it. Introducing readers to the rich world of fashion and dress, this set vividly depicts the changing styles, processes, and trends - from the first people to wear clothes in the last Ice Age to the courtly fashion of medieval Europe to the globalization of Western style - that led...