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When an extramarital affair with a minister results in a child, Hester Pryne is publically shamed and ostracized by her community in Puritan Boston. Her subsequent attempts at a quiet life are complicated by a vengeful husband, her rambunctious daughter, her refusal to name the father of her child, and finally, by a desperate attempt to escape from Boston. This compelling edition takes a critical look at Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter through the lens of women's issues. The text presents readers with a biographical snapshot of the author and examines women's issues in the novel. Essays discuss topics such as feminism in the nineteenth century, forced marriage, and the subservience of women. The text also provides contemporary perspectives on current women's issues, creating a dialogue between the events of the text and the world of today.

This fascinating book is a collection of articles, speeches, excerpts, and other material that present a variety of opinions on the subject of infectious diseases. What causes disease resurgence? How should society respond to resurgent diseases? How can resurgent diseases be controlled? How can disease resurgence be reduced? These four main questions are debated by divergent sources, allowing readers a comprehensive and broad understanding of these issues.

Editor Mike Wilson has compiled a sequence of essays in pro versus con format, that debate several topics about terrorism. Across four chapters, readers will evaluate whether terrorism is a serious threat, how society is susceptible to it, what its real causes are, and how governments should respond to terrorism. Is the United States winning its war on terrorism? Does a lack of civil liberties cause terrorism? Will winning the Iraq war curb terrorism? These valuable, pressing questions are debated for readers, allowing them to form intelligent opinions for themselves.

This volume doesn't delve exclusively into the American view of Iraq, rather, it provides a variety of international perspectives surrounding the War in Iraq. Primary sources, including speeches and government documents, join essays from international magazines and news sources for a truly panoramic view. Four chapters cover the Iraq War in relation to international relations, the Arab-Israeli conflict, international terrorism, and democracy.

This collection of international perspectives provides insights on the issue of immigration. Readers will evaluate immigration in relation to citizenship, economics, national identity, and national security. Readers evaluate citizenship in such places as India, Sweden, Russia, and Germany. They will evaluate immigration and economics in Ireland, China, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Further analysis takes them to Zimbabwe, Canada, Hungary, Morocco, and Spain.

The several essays compiled by editor Alicia Cafferty Lerner will help your readers develop a world view about marriage. This book provides analysis on the institution of marriage in different global locations, cultures, and social climates. One chapter covers human rights abuses, with a look into such cultures as Niger, Malawi, India, and Germany. Another chapter explains arranged, child, and polygamy marriages, with cultural coverage including Australia, Bangladesh, and Kenya. Same-sex marriages are explored across Canada, South Africa, Aruba, and America. Marriage in relation to money and sex is also explored, taking a look at such places as Ireland, Pakistan, Japan, and Uganda.

There may be a perceived American way of doing or seeing things, but today's digital world allows kids to live outside of our culture while living in it. This essential volume communicates what the world view of freedom of expression is. Editor Alicia Cafferty Lerner has painstakingly tracked down several articles and essays that explain what this concept is in such places as Slovakia, Turkey, Russia, Kenya, China, and England. Forms of expression examined includes blogging, journalism, singing, drama, internet searching, and mural painting. Essay sources include Freemuse, Kuwait Times, and The Economist.

This critical, crucial volume explores the politics and effects of global climate change. The first chapter presents essays from global resources that discuss the debate of climate change; is it real? One essay asserts that the United States is failing to address the very real existence of climate change. Chapter two discuses the impact of global climate change. Readers will learn about South America's Amazon basin and its loss of species and habitats. Chapter three discusses developing nations and climate change. Chapter four helps readers evaluate what is being done to combat climate change. Stellar essay sources include RoyalSociety.org, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Working Group II, and the United Nations Environment Programme.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Editor Debra A. Miller has collected a group of primary source writings that provide a broad spectrum of views on homeland security. Students are encouraged to see the validity of divergent opinions, so that they may understand topics inclusively. The writings in each chapter are organized into a question-and-response format, allowing readers to easily summarize different viewpoints. Contains extensive book and periodical bibliographies.

Ernest Hemingway's 1925 novel The Sun Also Rises sought to capture the resilient spirit of the Lost Generation through a series of love connections between a group of men and a liberated divorcee who finds herself at the center of their affections and attentions. Themes of gender, role according to gender, and the influence of masculinity and femininity saturate the novel, as the main characters grapple with what it means to expect integrity and morality in a modern world. This compelling edition provides background on the life of Ernest Hemingway and the influences that shaped his life. The book features articles that explore gender roles as portrayed in his novel The Sun Also Rises and also examines issues of gender roles in the twenty-first century.

A collection of critical reviews that investigate the background of industrialism in the works of John Steinbeck.

This book provides several viewpoints that debate four essential questions relating to gateway drugs. Do certain drugs have a gateway effect? Are gateway drugs harmful? What is the relationship between gateway drugs and other drugs? What should society do about gateway drugs? Readers will garner information from for-or-against essays as each topic is explained. Essay sources include the Office of National Drug Control Policy, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, Rosie Boycott, and Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Over 6 million people are currently publishing blogs on blogging websites, and another 12 million write blogs using their social networks. The writings in this anthology have been selected to introduce the reader to a broad array of viewpoints on blogs. Students are encouraged to see the validity of differing opinions, so that they may understand the topic inclusively. Readers will evaluate whether blogs influence politics, and whether employers can restrict an employees right to free speech in creating blog content.

This volume introduces a broad spectrum of viewpoints on the Middle East. Essay topics include conflict created by pursuit of oil and natural gas resources, the role of Israel, the roots of terrorist violence, whether a U.S. permanent base in Iraq will make things worse, and the role of democracy. Leading liberal, conservative, and centrist opinions are represented. Multiple viewpoints of issues are encapsulated in each chapter with the use of a question-and-response format. By evaluating contrasting viewpoints on topics, readers can attain a complete and balanced knowledge of the issues. Important facts, perfect for report writing, are dispersed throughout in eye-catching boxed insets, and an extensive bibliography is included

Editor Tom Lansford has compiled a compelling sequence of for-or-against essays that will give readers a balanced foundation on the presidential election process. Across four chapters, readers will explore whether the nomination process produces the best candidates, whether campaign spending should be limited, whether the media unfairly influence campaigns, and whether or not the electoral college should be abolished or reformed.

One of the most influential works in the canon of black American literature, Maya Angelou's autobiographical work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings offers readers a frank and inspirational personal portrait of what it means to overcome and move past personal trauma and racism. This compelling edition provides readers with an in-depth biography of the author and presents a series of essays that discuss racism as it relates to Angelou's work. Topics include race and gender, humor and folklore, and death and rebirth. Modern perspectives on the issue of racism are presented as well, allowing readers to connect the themes of the text to the world of today.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is taught in classrooms nationwide and is widely hailed as one of literature's most compelling depictions of racism in the South. This informative edition presents essays that examine racism and other related issues in To Kill a Mockingbird, discussing such topics as new and old Southern values, and the connection between class, gender, and racial prejudice. Modern perspectives on race issues are presented as well, allowing the reader to create a link between the themes of the text and the realities of today's world.

When four Chinese immigrant mothers meet through their church in 1949, they begin to play mahjong together, forming what eventually becomes the Joy Luck Club. The novel, which centers around these women and their first-generation daughters, tells varied stories about what it means to live, work, and love as an immigrant, with a focus on the bond of female empowerment. This essential edition presents readers with essays that examine women's issues in The Joy Luck Club, discussing topics such as gender and ethnic identity, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women. The text also explores contemporary perspectives on women's issues in relation to immigration, urging readers to contextualize the themes of the novel within the issues of the present.

One wonders, why, given the long history and diversity of the United States, are American leaders not drawn from a wider pool? This anthology interrogates this question from countering perspectives. Why doesn't America have a woman president? What role does the media play in shaping our perceptions of leaders? How does the media exclude potential leaders by propagating stereotypes based race, gender, religion, and class? Readers will gain insight into the unseen barriers and prejudices that have restricted the leadership of the country to a select few.

A fully electronic voting system has great risks, including hacking and fraud. Are electronic voting systems accessible for the disabled? Are they reliable, accurate, and secure? This informative edition explores topics related to electronic voting. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.

Editor Jamuna Carroll has compiled several intriguing essays that pull back the lid on the school policy process. The essays are arranged in a for-or-against sequence, allowing readers more than one perspective to evaluate. Are all school policies necessary and effective? Do school policies ensure students' safety? Do school policies respect students' rights? What school policies are needed in the future? Readers will examine these issues and form intelligent opinions. Essay sources include the Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and the American Psychological Association Zero Tolerance Task Force.

Each year, 1 in 5 females and 1 in 7 males engage in self injury. This self injury is often a coping mechanism for far more serious issues. Enable your readers to engage in a necessary debate about this topic. The essays collected here are provided in a pro versus con sequence, so that readers can evaluate more than one side to every topic. Across four chapters, readers will examine whether self-mutilation is a serious problem, whether body modification falls within mutilation, what triggers self-mutilation, and what should be done to reduce self-mutilating behavior. Essay sources include Teen Vogue, LifeSIGNS, and the Cornell University Family Life Development Center.

The world seems much smaller with our astounding means of transportation, but as readers will explore, there are costs that come with such great accomplishments. Across four chapters, readers are presented with essays that debate what alternative strategies are best, what policies protect national security, what laws best protect drivers, and what the future is for our world of transportation.

Editor Sylvia Engdahl has collected essays that provide your readers with a broad spectrum of views on online social networking. The writings represent leading views on issues such as the use of social networking and societal changes brought on by social networking. Students are encouraged to see the validity of divergent opinions, so that they may understand the topic inclusively. The writings in each chapter are organized into a question-and response format, allowing readers to easily summarize different viewpoints. Contains extensive book and periodical bibliographies.

Several essays collected here provide readers with a compelling look at the Military draft. Essays are arranged in a pro versus con format so that readers are provided with more than one intelligent viewpoint on each debated topic. Across four chapters, readers will consider whether the U.S. should reinstate the draft, how the draft affects society, who should be subject to a draft, and whether alternatives to the draft should be pursued.

Crime policy and the science of correcting criminal behavior is very complicated. This volume includes a collection of essays that analyze the efficacy of current sex offender policies. A question-and-response format prompts readers to examine complex topics from multiple viewpoints. Students are encouraged to see the validity of divergent opinions, so that they may understand issues inclusively. Essay topics include what the best defense is against sexual predators, whether treatment is effective, whether GPS tracking promotes panic, and whether the state of limitations should be reformed to bring justice to perpetrators.