Most Popular Books by David M. Haugen

Editor David M. Haugen helps readers to navigate through various issues relating to health care. Essays are arranged across four chapters, in a pro versus con format that debate each issue from divergent viewpoints. Readers will evaluate whether the American health care system needs reform and how it could be restructured. They will explore how it could be altered to help the uninsured. Lastly, they will look at the state level, evaluating how state programs could be altered. Essay sources include Medicare Rights Center, Partnership for Medicaid, Barack Obama, and Michelle Chen.

Discusses the planet Venus, its relationship in the solar system, its geography, its phases, and its scientific interest

This volume presents various opinions and viewpointsw on the issues surrounding epidemics and the appropriate response to those threats.

Presents a collection of fourteen essays that discuss individual perspectives on the subject of suicide from suicide survivors and therapists.

In addition to being a contest of arms, the U.S. Revolutionary War was a battle of words from which came many important documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, portions of ten of which are presented here.

Contains twelve essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to Islamic fundamentalism, including jihad, institutionalized Christianity inciting the growth of Islamism, the United States'' relation to Islamism, and other topics; and provides contact information for organizations and a bibliography.

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series 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 publications.; Opposing Viewpoints: Organized Crime examines if organized crime presents a threat to the world today, how profitable some organized crime activities are, what policies should be implemented to address organized crime, and whether or not organized crime h; "Each volume in the Opposing Viewpoints Series could serve as a model not only providing access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, th"

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series 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 publications.;; "Each volume in the Opposing Viewpoints Series could serve as a model not only providing access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, th"

This informative volume explores Eric Schlosser''s Fast Food Nation through the lens of the food industry. Coverage includes: an examination of Schlosser''s life as an investigative journalist; Schlosser''s view of the food industry as demonstrated in his book; how investigative journalism can be viewed as literature; how Fast Food Nation has changed people''s perspectives and actions; criticisms of Fast Food Nation and its message; and contemporary perspectives on the food industry with commentary on topics such as food regulations and movements.

Provides an overview of types of American gambling regulated by federal and state legislation, including lotteries, horse racing, and casinos, and presents related study commission reports, statistics, and excerpted acts.

Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series 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 publications.;; "Each volume in the Opposing Viewpoints Series could serve as a model not only providing access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, th"

Provides an overview, chronology of events, glossary and annotated bibliography for disability rights in the United States.

"Opposing Viewpoints: American Values: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--

The broadest possible understanding of history comes from exploring multiple perspectives: from different time periods, different cultures, different ideologies. This volume explores the major factors that contributed to the Holocaust, the mass genocide to exterminate Jews and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazis in Germany. Readers are given a compelling multinational perspective. After a thorough examination, readers will hear from those who lived through it. Narratives include a German Jewish man who describes Kristallnacht, a Polish woman who explains what life was like as a teenager in a forced labor camp, and an American soldier who explains what it was like to see the freshly liberated concentration camp prisoners.

This book provides critical analysis of the 1960s, discussing the baby boom generation that had been born in the years just after World War II and this generation''s music, politics, films, television, and antithetical association with the mainstream.

The potential of embryonic stem cell research to provide treatments for many serious and debilitating diseases has renewed the debate regarding the moral status of the human embryo. Charles Krauthammer, the National Institutes of Health, and others discuss the ethics of human embryo experimentation.

The editors of this collection of essays have thoughtfully and thoroughly compiled a sequence of essays that take readers through the high-controversial and devastating Vietnam War. The essays are international sources, giving multiple perspectives. Readers receive a historical background on the war and learn of the major factors that contributed to it. They will read about the controversies surrounding it, as well as read compelling personal narratives from those who lived through it or were directly impacted by the war.

Overview: The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives -- eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials and many others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to future research.