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Project Learning Using Digital Portfolios

This series teaches readers how to build and maximize the potential of digital portfolios. Electronic portfolios allow students to curate and demonstrate their skillset, academic progress, and personal achievements and interests in a way that can be continually updated and expanded upon using hyperlinks. The titles in this series teach readers how to apply digital portfolios to crucial endeavors, such as college and job applications or collabourative school projects.

Project Learning with 3D Printing

Education in advanced manufacturing is a priority in the United States, where there is increasing demand for skilled workers to fill an expanding list of new jobs. Among the new tools to be mastered is 3D printing, which can expedite the development of products from prototype to mass production. This series covers all aspects of this fascinating technology, from home hobby printers to professional cutting-edge technology, as well as the materials and processes implemented. It can be the spark th

Prom: The Big Night Out

Take a trip to a wide range of proms, from the first cotillion and debutante balls of the early twentieth century to the integrated and LGBTQ-inclusive proms of the twenty-first century. Hear tips from young adults about how to have a safe and enjoyable prom; learn about creative outfits and fun promposals; see what some teens have done when prom plans changed because of illness or accidents; and meet the brave teens who have gone to court for the right to wear what they want and to bring the pe

Prosecuting War Crimes: Seeking Justice for the Victims of War

As modern warfare has become more hazardous to soldiers and civilians, nations have worked together to create and enforce rules of war. Prosecuting War Crimes: Seeking Justice for the Victims of War explores how treaties such as the Geneva Conventions have set guidelines to protect noncombatants and govern the treatment of military prisoners. The book also looks at how war criminals can be brought to justice, from the Nuremberg Trials to the Balkans tribunals to evidence of war crimes in RussiaÎ

Protest: A History of Social Movements in America

The First Amendment guarantees the right to peacefully protest and Americans have embraced this right for nearly two centuries. Protest: A History of Social Movements in America focuses on the people who faced adversity while speaking out for women?s suffrage, Black civil rights, the environment, LGBTQ rights, and more.

Psychiatric Disorders: Drugs & Psychology for the Mind & Body

Psychology for Kids: The Science of the Mind and Behavior

This exciting new book introduces kids to the science of psychology, with chapters on the brain, personality, intelligence, emotions, social relationships, and more. Accompanied by colourful illustrations of psychology's big ideas and lots of hands-on experiments to try at home, there's no better way to dive into the fascinating science of the mind. Why do we sleep? What are feelings? How do we make decisions, and how do we learn from them? Psychology helps us ask and answer these big questions

Public Profiles

This epic collection presents biographies of public figures unlike any published before. Covering both historical and contemporary figures, these volumes compile The New York Times' coverage of prominent politicians, artists, and activists, among other figures, reflecting how the public viewed and understood these biographical subjects throughout the course of their time in the spotlight. This unique coverage of each person's life and impact on society is enlightening, demonstrating how greater

Push for Social Change, The

Social change can occur slowly and quietly but it is often the result of large numbers of people mobilizing for the purpose of bringing about change. The Push for Social Change series explores how and why social change occurs and what impact major movements have had on people's lives. All books will examine the events that led to particular social change movements; what those movements did; how and why they did it; and the short-term and long-term impact of those movements. Quotes from people o

Q Reads

These quick reads, just 32-pages each are power-packed with reading enjoyment. Here are 40 exciting hi-lo paperback novels with various themes guaranteed to keep your students turning the pages until the very end!