Scientific Thought in Context is a comprehensive guide to the history of science and serves as an authoritative bridge between science content and social issues. This work supports both basic and advanced curriculums in biology, chemistry, general physical science, physics, and Earth science as well as history and the social sciences. Topics include: The Big Bang Theory, Biochemsitry, Cloning, Evolutionary Theory, Newtonian Physics, Microchip Technologies, Pseudoscience and Popular Misconceptions among many others. It offers 140 articles written by global experts as well as more than 400 color photographs, illustrations, maps, and tables that put the topics into context. The "Words to Know" section within each entry helps students to read in context without being overwhelmed by scientific terminology, while a chronology includes many of the most significant events in the history of scientific thought and advances of science.

These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic:

• Crime and Punishment
• Environmental Issues
• Family in Society
• Gender Issues and Sexuality
• Government, Politics, and Protest
• Human and Civil Rights
• Immigration and Multiculturalism
• Medicine, Bioethics, and Health
• Social Policy
• Terrorism

Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry:

• Date
• Source
• About the Author
• Introduction
• Primary Source
• Significance
• Further Resources

All titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index. A comprehensive subject index is included with print set purchases only.

Perfect for high school students and general researchers, Food: In Context examines food in relationship to nutrition, world health issues, agriculture, environmental concerns, current events and political decision-making. Written by experts in nutrition, medicine, culinary arts, agriculture/aquaculture, environmental science and history, this new full-color set covers the historical, political and ethical debates related to food. It also explores how food impacts daily life, trade and commerce, the environment, and health and nutrition. Cross-curricular in nature, Food: In Context supports basic and advanced AP curricula in chemistry and biology, as well as Earth science, general physical science, environmental science, health science, history, government and the social sciences. Primary source documents and more than 250 photographs articulate the interrelation of food to science and society.

These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic:

• Crime and Punishment
• Environmental Issues
• Family in Society
• Gender Issues and Sexuality
• Government, Politics, and Protest
• Human and Civil Rights
• Immigration and Multiculturalism
• Medicine, Bioethics, and Health
• Social Policy
• Terrorism

Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry:

• Date
• Source
• About the Author
• Introduction
• Primary Source
• Significance
• Further Resources

All titles contain an introduction to its topic, a chronology of major events associated with the topic, and a general index. A comprehensive subject index is included with print set purchases only.

This title in the popular "World of...Series is a comprehensive, subject-specific, two-volume encyclopedic guide that covers the concepts, theories, discoveries and pioneers in microbiology and immunology for students, researchers, teachers and librarians. Included are 650 alphabetically arranged and cross-referenced topical and biographical entries.