Books published by publisher ABDO

Readers will discover how some of their favorite pastimes promote fitness and health in this informative series. Engaging text and full-color, kid-friendly photos show readers how their choice to stay physically active today can prevent health problems in the future. From skateboarding to yoga, readers will learn how each activity strengthens the heart, lungs, and muscles. Readers will become familiar with the basics of each activity, the necessary gear, and safety methods. Other topics include flexibility, balance, warming up and cooling down, stretching, goal setting, nutrition, and rest. A table of contents, fun facts, diagrams, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This series will inspire readers to move their bodies! Readers will discover how skateboarding promotes fitness and health in this informative title. Engaging text, full-color photos, and supplemental diagrams introduce them to skateboarding as an aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise. Readers will become familiar with gear, including boards, helmets, and safety pads. They will also learn about skateboard maintenance, safety, and etiquette. Warming up, cooling down, and stretching are discussed, as well as nutrition. A table of contents, fun facts, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This book will inspire readers to grab their skateboards and move their bodies!

The Essential Viewpoints series examines critical debates occurring today, including the legislation that has shaped the issue as well as the numerous sides of each argument. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Each book includes a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. This volume in the series gives readers a balanced look at the issue of health care reform in the United States and the surrounding arguments. A historic overview of the U.S. health care system is introduced, including Medicare, Medicaid, and HMOs. Also covered are economic concerns and political aspects, including President Obama’s latest plans for improvement. Additionally, the Canadian health care system is compared with the U.S. system. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.

This ten-book series explores the martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography, and politics to give readers a balanced perspective of the world's fighting systems. Author Jim Ollhoff, Ph.D., holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, as well as intermediate belts in Korean Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kung Fu. Series editor John Hamilton is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, with additional experience in Kung Fu and self-defense.This volume of the series explores martial arts movies, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics.

This ten-book series explores the martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography, and politics to give readers a balanced perspective of the world's fighting systems. Author Jim Ollhoff, Ph.D., holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, as well as intermediate belts in Korean Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kung Fu. Series editor John Hamilton is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, with additional experience in Kung Fu and self-defense.Explores kung fu, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics.

The Bill of Rights series examines the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, spelling out the rights that all Americans enjoy, but few truly understand. In a relevant and accessible way, the series explores the Constitution’s amendment process and reveal how amendments—once adopted—become woven into the fabric of daily living in America. Includes historical and current events examples.This volume of the series examines the Fifth Amendment, explaining the right to fairness, Miranda, the right to a grand jury, and double jeopardy.

The Essential Viewpoints series examines critical debates occurring today, including the legislation that has shaped the issue as well as the numerous sides of each argument. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Each book includes a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. This volume of the series gives readers a balanced look at the issue of advertising to children and its surrounding arguments. Advertising to Children familiarizes readers with the basics of marketing and selling products, the history of children as consumers, current marketing strategies, food marketing, branding, and overconsumption. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.

How do black holes form? What are galaxies? How do astronauts live in space? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more in this compelling series. Engaging text highlights the most mysterious, fascinating objects and events in outer space and the ways humans explore and learn about them. Vibrant photos, including colorful satellite images, pair with easy-to-understand diagrams to spark readers’ imaginations and give them a glimpse at what lies beyond! Features include a table of contents, fun facts, diagrams, a glossary with phonetics, and an index. Expand your young reader’s universe! Simple, straightforward text paired with vibrant photos breaks down scientific concepts of galaxies, such as gravity, light-years, and orbits. Readers will learn about the different shapes and sizes of galaxies, as well as what galaxies consist of. Well-known galaxies including the Milky Way and Andromeda are highlighted. Also discussed are the discovery of galaxies and how scientists study them with telescopes and other tools. Features include a table of contents, fun facts, a glossary with phonetics, and an index.

Readers will discover how some of their favorite pastimes promote fitness and health in this informative series. Engaging text and full-color, kid-friendly photos show readers how their choice to stay physically active today can prevent health problems in the future. From skateboarding to yoga, readers will learn how each activity strengthens the heart, lungs, and muscles. Readers will become familiar with the basics of each activity, the necessary gear, and safety methods. Other topics include flexibility, balance, warming up and cooling down, stretching, goal setting, nutrition, and rest. A table of contents, fun facts, diagrams, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This series will inspire readers to move their bodies! Readers will discover how dancing promotes fitness and health in this informative title. Engaging text, full-color photos, and supplemental diagrams introduce them to dancing as an aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise. Readers will become familiar with different styles of dancing and the necessary gear. Warming up, cooling down, and stretching are discussed, as well as safety, nutrition, and goal setting. A table of contents, fun facts, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This book will inspire readers to turn on some music and move their bodies!

The Bill of Rights series examines the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, spelling out the rights that all Americans enjoy, but few truly understand. In a relevant and accessible way, the series explores the Constitution’s amendment process and reveal how amendments—once adopted—become woven into the fabric of daily living in America. Includes historical and current events examples.In this volume of the series, we give an overview of the Bill of Rights.

Exploring World Governments identifies and explains different types of governments. Each book examines the social, political, religious, and cultural effects within each governmental structure’s confines as well as its impact on neighboring nations and the global community. Chapters discuss typical economic arrangements within each typeof government and how economic theories and political practice are interwoven in defining how a government operates and serves its people. This title examines communism in world history from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to creation of the Soviet Union after World War I, through World War II and the Cold War to its apex in the 1960s. Communist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and Laos, and Socialist Law are examined, as well as daily life for people under this type of government. Other types of governments are compared and contrasted, as are the properties of the central economy. Influences in the movement such as François Marie Charles Fourier, George Ripley, François-Noël Babeuf, John Goodwin Barmby, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kim Jong-il, Nguyen Minh Triet, and Choummaly Sayasone are examined. Critics of communism such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Robert Conquest, and Stéphane Courtois are introduced. Important institutions such as the Fourier Movement, Brook Farm, Communist Propaganda Society, League of the Just, Communist Correspondence Committee of Bruxelles, Communist League are explored. Important events such as the Cultural Revolution, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs Invasion, The Helsinki Accords, House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation, Fall of Berlin Wall are highlighted, and important works such as The Communist Manifesto, and State and Revolution are included. Exploring World Governments is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

African American History traces the timeline of this proud culture from its origins and the American Civil War, to the Civil Rights movement, to the struggle for equality that continues today. The Civil Rights Movement discusses important events during the fight for human and civil rights. Short biographies of civil rights leaders, authors, artists, and other powerful African Americans are also included. Graphically gripping, this series draws in young readers with dramatic images, while providing a clear understanding of African Americans’ past.