Each book in this series offers all the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a student needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversial topic. Issues are presented from multiple points of view; sidebars cite law and opinions to aid in critical analysis; paratextual questions encourage reader engagement; and all sources are fully documented and grouped by the side of the argument. Discusses limitations of free expression: Where is the line to be drawn between free expression and obscenity? How free should the press be to cover information that may benefit the public?

American military policy is hotly debated.

Explores key issues related to U.S. immigration, such as illegal immigration and whether or not English should be the nation's official language.

Jacques Chirac has served in every major office of the French state, but has also been beset by corruption and crises.

Since Alfred the Great united England in the 9th century CE, this northwestern European country has played a prominent role in world affairs. From its early days as the world's leading naval power - which enabled it to spread its influence over an area larger than one-fourth of the world's surface - to the period when it served as the center of the Industrial Revolution, England has long been one of the world's most influential countries. Newly updated and featuring striking full-color photographs, maps, and other accessible study features, "England" is a detailed exploration of the people,...

This work tells how, for a decade, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man - the 'Iron Chancellor' who piloted the British economy through years of growth. But behind the scenes, a bitter power struggle between the two men was rocking the foundations of the Labour Party.

The United States was founded as, and has remained, a land of immigrants, but immigration has always proved a complex issue for the country. This edition has been updated to cover new controversies and include up-to-date statistics on this perennially controversial issue.

Explains the 1814 Conference of Vienna, in which major European powers came together to restore the order that had been upset by the Napoleonic Wars of the previous 25 years.

During the summer of 1940, the fate of the world hung in the balance as Adolf Hitler's powerful air force, the Luftwaffe, contested the skies above southern England with Britain's Royal Air Force. A handful of brave but outnumbered RAF pilots, many hailing from outside the United Kingdom, fought desperately to hold the Nazi juggernaut back and, in doing so, defend Britain from invasion. In Prime Minister Winston Churchill's immortal words, those brave RAF pilots were the few on whom so much depended. The brand-new The Battle of Britain traces the origins and course of the Battle of Britain,...