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Addiction
Counselors, scholars, and policy makers debate various methods of addiction treatment and prevention. Chapters include: What Factors Contribute to Addiction? Is Addiction a Serious Problem? How Should Addiction Be Treated?
Digital Storytelling as Public History
Digital Storytelling as Public History: A Guidebook for Educators provides a practical methodology for teaching public history in the digital age. Drawing on a long-standing collaboration, Fisanick and Stakeley examine how and why educators in all arenas should adopt digital storytelling as a means for encouraging interest in local and regional history. The book shows readers how to implement the strategies necessary to help storytellers in a variety of settings create short films that showcase the collections at local and regional historical societies and museums. It also teaches storytellers higher executive functions, such as independent project management, peer and self-critique, and rhe...
The Optimistic Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating
The Optimistic Food Addict explores the author's journey through recovery from binge eating disorder. Inspirational, honest, and motivating, this book is guaranteed to contribute significantly to the recovery of readers who also suffer from food addiction as they feel the gritty, raw truth behind the author's words.
Working Women
Editor Christina Fisanick has compiled several opposing essays that will help readers evaluate the world of working women. Four chapters analyze how women should better manage their finances, whether women are discriminated against in the workplace, what women can do to balance work and family, and whether working women negatively impact families. Essay contributors include The National Coalition to Protect Family Leave, Mothers Movement Online, Stephanie Coontz, and Cynthia Fuchs Epstein.
The Fat Studies Reader
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association A milestone anthology of fifty-three voices on the burgeoning scholarly movement—fat studies We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are read by a disembodied voice. And we have seen the movies—their obvious lack of large leading actors silently speaking volumes. From the government, healt...
Gun Control
Discusses the issue of gun control in the United States, covering whether it reduces violence, the right to bear arms as stated in the Consitution, and the basis for the bans on particular types of guns.
Mad at School
Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education
Eco-architecture
"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."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
Two-Week Wait
After losing two children in infancy and surviving three miscarriages, Christina Greer, who suffers from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and secondary infertility, attempts one last time to become a mother. She keeps readers in suspense as she details her final and twentieth year of suffering through the "two-week wait," the time period between ovulation and taking a pregnancy test. After announcing her pregnancy, Christina brings readers along as she goes through a harrowing high-risk pregnancy and traumatic birth. People who are struggling or have struggled through infertility or child loss will find hope in this true story of grief and joy on the road to motherhood.
Human Trafficking
It is estimated that human trafficking generates many billions of dollars of profit per year, second only to drug trafficking as the most profitable form of transnational crime. This book explores issues related to human trafficking, including what factors contribute to human trafficking, if internet sites used for sex trafficking should be shut down, and if globalization promotes human trafficking. It contains a collection of writings by foremost authorities in the field, representing a broad range of views on the topics discussed. Each chapter presents an important question about the subject such as Can global cooperation reduce human trafficking? and the opinions that follow are grouped into yes and no categories. By evaluating contrasting opinions, readers can attain an objective knowledge of the subject. Fact boxes are included to summarize important information for researchers.
