From left to right on the political spectrum, there is at least one note of agreement: the nation's school system has not delivered universal quality education. Accordingly, debate has raged over how to rectify this situation. Should the government increase funding, encourage privatisation, some of both? Another option, though, has emerged and is seemingly gaining popularity - home schooling.Citing both substandard education and displeasure with school environments and curricula, many parents have decided to teach their own children. Supporters say it is well within their rights to raise their children as they see fit and that at-home learning is superior to the public system. Detractors claim that home-schooled children are deprived of social interaction and the broad-based education provided by the system. Neither side wants to cede ground, making the issue of home schooling an integral part of a wider national debate on education. In this book, the specific topic of home schooling is presented from all relevant sides to give a complete picture of the present status of the issue and its potential for future resolution. Following this overview is a thorough and carefully selected

Home Schooling: Status and Bibliography

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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Trust in a Medical Setting

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Smith, Richard Dean

Mental Health

Who, except the senders of this dangerous and ever-more sophisticated material, is not attacked everyday? What laws protect us if any? What is being done about it if anything? This book presents the progress on these issues which rate extremely high on everyone's list of concerns.

Spam And Internet Privacy

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Ecology is the study of the interrelationships between organisms and their environment, including the biotic and abiotic components. There are at least six kinds of ecology: ecosystem, physiological, behavioural, population, and community. Specific topics include: Acid Deposition, Acid Rain Revisited, Biodiversity, Biocomplexity, Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Coral Reefs, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Justice, Fire Ecology, Floods, Global Climate Change, Hypoxia, and Invasion. This new book presents new research on ecology from around the world.

New Developments in Ecology Research

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Like it or not, the automobile industry is now and will remain an overwhelming factor in the lives of most people - if not an owner and driver, then as a pedestrian or a breather of air, which is being polluted by the gas-guzzling and vile-air belching monsters created for our individual hedonistic pleasure. This book presents issues of current interest to those who cannot ignore their presence.

Automobile Industry: Current Issues

Business & Money

Industries

This new book deals with the complex issue of Europe's inevitable yet extremely controversial expansion process.

Towards a Wider Europe

History

Europe

What does psychology have to do with affirmative action? In the author's opinion, questioning the relevance of psychology to an issue such as affirmative action is, unfortunately, not an uncommon query, even among many people within the field of psychology. When most people, both within and outside the field, make an association between psychology and affirmative action, it is in terms of the debate over racial differences in performance on intelligence tests. Thus, the decision to write this book was based upon what was seen as a need to demonstrate and highlight the substantive contribution that psychology can make in terms of improving our understanding of why it is that people respond to affirmative action with a variety of reactions and emotions. The primary goal of this book is to discuss empirical research and theoretical work on affirmative action from a psychological perspective. The intended audience is academics, including undergraduate and graduate students, and social science researchers.

Psychological Perspective on Affirmative Action

Doverspike, Dennis

Taylor, Mary Anne

Arthur, Winfred, Jr.

Psychology & Counseling

The Common Rule (45 CFR 46, Subpart A) governs research that isconducted on human beings if it is funded by one of 18 federalagencies. It requires a review of proposed research by an InstitutionalReview Board (IRB), the informed consent of research subjects, andinstitutional assurances of compliance with the regulations. In 1974, 45CFR 46 was published following some cases of harm to humansubjects, such as those caused by thalidomide drug trials and theUnited States Public Health Service syphilis study in Tuskeegee, Alabama

Federal Protection for Human Research Subjects: An Analysis of the Common Rule and Its Interactions with FDA Regulations and teh HIPAA Privacy Rule

Medical Books

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 heightened awareness about the vulnerability to terrorist attack of all modes of transportation. This book looks at port security and how it has emerged as a significant part of the overall debate on US homeland security.

Port And Maritime Security

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Saudi Arabia enjoys special importance in much of the international community because of its unique association with the Islamic religion and its oil wealth. Since the establishment of the modern Saudi kingdom in 1932, it has benefitted from a stable political system and a prosperous economy dominated by the oil sector. With one-fourth of the world's proven oil reserves and some of the lowest production costs, Saudi Arabia is likely to remain the world's largest net oil exporter for the foreseeable future. During January-October 2004, Saudi Arabia supplied the United States with 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil, or 15%, of U.S. crude oil imports during that period. The September 11, 2001 attacks fueled criticisms within the United States of alleged Saudi involvement in terrorism or of Saudi laxity in acting against terrorist groups.

Saudi Arabia: Terrorism, U.S. Relations And Oil

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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