Books published by publisher ABDO

These fun, fact-filled books are perfect for young researchers. The history, geography, and people of each state are covered in these books. The text is enhanced with maps, photos, and graphs. Timelines and fast-facts sections reinforce the text. The detailed and well-written books are ideal for both research and entertainment.Easy-to-read text with bright, full color photographs brings Delaware to young students. Presented in a simple, easily understandable, "scrapbook" format, kids will truly enjoy opening this travelogue-like book. This 48-page book is filled with current state facts and statistical data. Important historical information segues to up-to-date details on cities, economics, geography, and climate. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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 standardized testing in schools and its surrounding arguments. Standardized Testing in Schools familiarizes readers with the No Child Left Behind Act, the history of testing in schools, standards and scoring, test writing, and the effects of testing on education as a whole. In addition, issues surrounding cheating among students, teachers, states, and districts are included, as well as public opinion. 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.

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 totalitarian governments in world history from the post World War II era including the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, China, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Burma.

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 examine the First Amendment, explaining the right to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press.

The Everyday Inventions series clearly explains and explores the history, inventors, and inner workings of everyday marvels. Young readers will discover a world of invention through full-color photographs and engaging, easy-to-read text. A graphic timeline and helpful diagrams clarify and provide quick access to important information that is ideal for research and reports. This book introduces the history of the invention of cameras, including early artists’ use of the camera obscura, Johan Heinrich Schulze’s use of silver salts, inventing ways to make photographic images permanent, Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce and the first photograph, Louis-Jacque-Mandé Daguerre’s daguerreotype, William Henry Fox Talbot’s talbotype, George Eastman’s roll film and portable Kodak cameras, Oskar Barnack’s handheld Leica, Paul Vierkotter’s camera flash, Harold Edgerton’s stroboscopic flash, Edwin Herbert Land’s instant camera, Steven Sasson and the first digital camera, and cell phone cameras. Other chapters delve into camera parts, from the light-tight body to lenses and viewfinders, as well as how these parts work together to make a camera work, from framing a shot to how images form on film or a charge-coupled device. Other sections cover different kinds of cameras and photography, including daguerreotypes, the Kodak box camera, the Brownie, the Polaroid Land Camera, camcorders, and digital cameras, as well as the professional photographers, teachers, salespeople, film developers, and repair specialists who work with cameras. Fun facts discuss French photographer Nadar and the first aerial photograph, Mathew Brady’s coverage of the American Civil War, and Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of a running horse. Full-color photographs, informative diagrams, glossary words in bold, a graphic timeline, and an index enhance this engaging, easy-to-read text about cameras, an everyday invention that has changed the way we look at the world. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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 weapons used in martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics.

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 monarchies in world history from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, to North America. Different types of monarchies such as elected, absolute, constitutional, and nominal are discussed, as are the different forms of government and economic systems in monarchies. Historical monarchies such as those of ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Rome are examined as are more modern monarchies such as those that rule the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and Japan. How monarchies are created is explained, as well as how they derive power and how they end. Historic monarchs such as Cleopatra, David, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, King John, Peter the Great, Louis XVI, Hirohito, and Abdul Aziz al-Saud are introduced. Important events in the history of monarchies such as the Magna Carta, Act of Settlement 1701, and World Wars I and II are covered. The citizen’s role, rights, and responsibilities in a monarchy such as paying taxes and exercising political rights are also covered. Exploring World Governments is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

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 Eighth Amendment, including acceptable and unacceptable punishments.

This series offers young readers the opportunity to learn about the fascinating world of forensic science in an age-appropriate manner. Using facts and quotes from professionals in the field, these books are packed with information about crime scene investigators, their jobs, and their challenging and sometimes bizarre work, which combines the logic of science and technology with the intrigue of mystery and suspense.This volume of the series introduces the fascinating world of fingerprint analysis.