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This book provides insight into the life and writing of popular children's author Lois Lowry. Lowry, the winner of not one but two Newbery Awards (one for Number the Stars and the second for The Giver), is an author known for her wide range.

Weather Reports Prepared Especially for Students in Grades 5-8 This four-volume set explores the world of meteorology from the basics of cloud formation to the anatomy of dangerous storms. Your students will learn meteorological terms, gain an understanding of weather systems, and acquire safety tips. Using practical language to explain difficult concepts, this informative guide to thunderstorms and lightning explains their development and offers safety guidelines for the interested student.

Weather Reports Prepared Especially for Students in Grades 5-8 This four-volume set explores the world of meteorology from the basics of cloud formation to the anatomy of dangerous storms. Your students will learn meteorological terms, gain an understanding of weather systems, and acquire safety tips. Weather is a part of our everyday lives, but students often lack the basic knowledge of cloud formation and precipitation development. Galiano provides the fundamentals of weather activity for the novice.

This Important Eight-Book Series Focuses on the Most Pressing Ethical Issues Facing Society Today This up-to-date series focuses on the key ethical issues raised by groundbreaking scientific and technological advancements in today's society. Examining the importance, relevance, and morality of issues that fill our headlines, this series presents the basic scientific and technological terms, concepts, theories, and research behind these debates. Each of these books emphasizes the need for ethical and responsible science, and looks at the balance that must be struck between the competing interests of science and society. Through the progress of medical science, today's infertile couples have many options for helping them conceive. However, many of these methods are controversial. Issues such as multiple births due to fertility drugs and the rights of surrogate parents raise important ethical and legal questions. In this book, readers will come to understand the complex world of fertility technology and will consider all of its implications.

Six High-interest Books Sure to Intrigue Your Students Nothing captures the interest of readers like tales of heroism and tragedy. Featuring such disasters as the wreck of the now-famous fishing boat the Andrea Gail during the "perfect storm, " the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, this new Rosen Central series is perfect for use as part of the social studies curriculum. The books illustrate the dangers to the individual and to society posed by an incomplete mastery of technology and a misplaced faith in human competence and judgment. The gripping accounts of these tragic events are supplemented with compelling narrative timelines and enthralling firsthand testimonies. Each title includes a discussion of how, in the aftermath of tragedy, changes in technology and procedure were brought about to help ensure that a similar disaster would never strike again. The USS Greeneville's mission on February 9, 2001, was a simple one; take sixteen civilian guests out for a pleasure cruise in the waters south of Oahu, entertain them at lunch in the galley, impress them with a demonstration of what a nuclear-powered attack submarine can do. Using eyewitness accounts, court of inquiry testimony and findings, and a narrative timeline of those frantic minutes beneath the sea, Eric Fein tells the tragic story of the Greeneville's collision with the fishing vessel, the Ehime Maru, that resulted in the deaths of nine Japanese fishermen and students.

A negligent captain, a reckless decision, frozen waters, a treacherous reef--all created the largest oil spill and perhaps the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The grounding of the Exxon Valdez upon Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and the resulting spill and mismanaged cleanup of 240,000 barrels of oil were not, however, simply due to a series of mistakes and bad decisions on board the tanker. The disaster was made possible by the greed of oil industry executives, politicians, government bureaucrats, and Alaskan taxpayers who became blinded to environmental and safety concerns.

Ripped from Today's Headlines, Here Are Six Important Titles Focusing on the Future of Medical Technology This series of books highlights current and future trends in advancing medical technology, from the use of new materials for artificial organs to the genetic engineering of disease-free human beings. New diagnostic imaging systems have made it much easier for doctors to determine the nature of injuries, and new surgical tools mean safer operations and shorter stays in the hospital. Future medicine will likely astound us all. This book tells of the discovery of the genetic sequences of human DNA and what that discovery may mean for treating or eliminating genetically-linked diseases. Also discussed are some of the ethical issues surrounding the use of this technology.