Books with author DAVID NELSON

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices. Readers will learn basic soldering skills, which will be useful in pursuing a variety of engineering projects. Photos, sidebars, and callouts help readers draw connections between new concepts in this book and other makers-related concepts they may already know. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

For over 25 years, the Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series has developed and set the standard for current-issue studies. With more than 90 volumes covering nearly every controversial contemporary topic, Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. Each title explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. By choosing from such diverse sources and including both popular and unpopular views, the Opposing Viewpoints editorial team has adhered to its commitment to editorial objectivity. Readers are exposed to many sides of a debate, which promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking. In short, Opposing Viewpoints is the best research and learning tool for exploring the issues that continually shape and define our turbulent and changing world.

Great literature resonates with us not only because of well-developed characters and plots, but also because it often reflects important social themes; these books explore a work of literature through the lens of the major issue reflected in it.; This volume of Social Issues in Literature explores S.E. Hinton's classic novel The Outsiders through the lens of teen issues. The text discusses a variety of topics, including Hinton's life and influences, whether the novel offers an overly romanticized ; This series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature in a unique format designed to support cross-curricular studies. Each volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features car

Great literature resonates with us not only because of well-developed characters and plots, but also because it often reflects important social themes; these books explore a work of literature through the lens of the major issue reflected in it.; ; This series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature in a unique format designed to support cross-curricular studies. Each volume explores a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features car

The Genocide and Persecution series offers readers a multitude of perspectives, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of these complex and horrific periods in world history; each volume is an anthology of previously published materials on acts of geno; Title explores genocide and persecution in Chile, including the historical background; covering Pinochet’s military coup and legacy; controversies surrounding genocide and persectution, US government and busines interests and the Coup of 1973; participation of doctors and torture under Pinochet’s regime; and personal narratives from foreign workers, American expatriates, and victims of the persecution.; The histories of nations across the globe are marked by dark periods of mass murder, brutal repression, and unrelenting persecution. Remembering and understanding such incidents is vitally important. The Genocide and Persecution series offers students and other readers a multitude of perspectives, allowing for a more nuanced understanding of these complex and horrific periods in world history.Each volume is an anthology of previously published materials on acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and other instances of extreme persecution. Individual volumes address an event or series of events in a nation, region, or people’s history, and include historical background, writings about the relevant issues and controversies, and first-person narratives. By providing primary sources, as well as analysis of crucial issues, these volumes help develop critical thinking skills and encourage global connections; they also support key curriculum standards in a variety of areas, including history, English language arts and social science. The text is enhanced by an annotated table of contents; a foreword written by an expert in the field of genocide studies; a chronology; detailed illustrations and photographs; features for classroom use, including analytical exercises, writing prompts, and group activities; a glossary; an annotated list of organizations to contact; an annotated list of reports, treaties, resolutions, and judicial decisions; a bibliography; and a comprehensive subject index.Those who study genocide, crimes against humanity, and persecution struggle to comprehend and explain the enormity and brutality of such acts. The Genocide and Persecution series explores events from many angles, equipping readers with the tools to achieve a greater understanding of these atrocities.

Orphan Dimity McKee’s contented life of exotic teas, old books and antiquated records is threatened by compulsory social inclusion. But a five-inch lion – the Bad Lord Lionel – offers her new dimensions, not only in his native Leonville, but also in the pair’s confrontation with Otto deFrost, chief priest of the Great Sturgeon, who aims to impose a demented creed on the rest of the universe. In her deepening relationship with the Bad Lord Lionel, Dimity is forced to make adult choices in the otters’ fenland of Waterborne. Dimity’s vividly-realised world is presented with fun, irony, and even a hint of savagery, in a cliff-hanging story which moves at an increasing lick.

Flash Madigan has a problem. He just stole $900,000 from the Russian mob to place a bet on a jai alai game that was supposed to be fixed. Only, it wasn't. Now, he's out 900 large and needs to pay it back before the bosses figure out what happened. Manny Diaz is an ex-Special Forces solider kicked out of the Army for running a cottage industry in international arms trafficking, now he's a small time crook with more schemes than sense. Manny set up the rigged game and forgot to mention that the vice squad rolled it up. Now, he owes Flash a favor. Demetrius Dawes is an ex-pro football player-turned home security consultant. He's got undergraduate work in breaking and entering and, quite possibly, the worst robbery scheme on the planet. But, he's just found the perfect mark that is the solution to all their problems...Together, they decide to blackmail a retired Columbian drug smuggler hiding out in Coral Gables. What could go wrong? As it turns out, literally all of it.Now, the race is on to see who gets them first--every cop in Miami, the FBI, the Russian Mob or a mark who is a lot more dangerous than he seems. Only some proper villains are going to get out of this alive.

Learn how to solder electronic components together and build your own devices. Readers will learn basic soldering skills, which will be useful in pursuing a variety of engineering projects. Photos, sidebars, and callouts help readers draw connections between new concepts in this book and other makers-related concepts they may already know. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.