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Alphabetically arranged entries offer a comprehensive overview of the issues, battles, weapons, people, places, events, and units related to the Vietnam War.

Examines a broad range of perceived or actual legal rights and freedoms that impact the lives of young American teens, focusing on child custody and child support issues that arise when the parents of a teen divorce.

Helps young adults navigate through the intricacies of social networks and gain a better understanding of the online experience, addressing online safety and covering such topics as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, netspeak, blogs, privacy, cyberbullying, videochat, and smartphones.

Examines over one hundred markers, monuments, houses, and other historic sties in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and discusses the lies and omissions that are being memorialized across the American countryside.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

Contains twelve essays that provide varying viewpoints on issues related to drug abuse, debating questions of whether there is a drug abuse crisis and how drug abuse can be reduced.

Personal narratives explore the dangers of addiction, with people describing the devastating impact their addictions had on their personal and professional lives and sharing how they overcame their addictions.

Contains seventeen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to athletes and drug use, debating whether drug use among athletes should be illegal, what the consequences of drug use should be, and how to curb drug use among student athletes.

Explores the core concepts and fundamentals of intellectual development from a psychological perspective, explaining how the brain processes information and allows individuals to learn, remember, and communicate, and discussing theories on learning, language acquisition, creativity, and other related topics.

A collection of articles that discuss the controversy surrounding genetically modified foods.