Travel with a meteor at speeds up to , miles per hour. Burrow with the earthworms in your own backyard. Through it all, you'll find out how things synergize, regenerate, and evaporate - and lots more! And don't worry about the big words - they are all defined and explained with familiar examples in this fascinating trip through the natural world. Offers facts, crafts, games, and experiments about the Sun, Moon, inner planets, outer planets, asteroids and comets, stars and galaxies, space exploration, and life in outer space.
Discusses the rights of teens in relation to how they are treated at home, school, and in the workplace. Presents both sides of the debate over genetically engineered food, including information on how it works, and how it affects agriculture and the consumer.
Tackles the topic of poverty by explaining the causes, problems, and solutions to this national crisis in a country that is overwhelmingly affluent. Defines and discusses global warming, its possible effects on the world, and arguments about whether or not such a phenomenon is really occurring. Explains how many pathogens have evolved and become resistant to antibiotics, and examines the problems this causes around the world and how scientists might overcome them.
Discusses the history of international trade and outlines the arguments for and against free trade. Covering issues relevant to teens, these full-color books present the information needed to analyze some of the most controversial and challenging topics in today's news and to help empower teenagers to develop their own opinions on the matter.
Examines the debate over national health care in the United States, including how the system currently works and how it developed, economic factors, arguments for and against proposed changes, and possible future developments. Each title reviews a high-impact, high-interest trial from American history - focusing on the people behind the case, the societal issues, and the legal principles involved - and compares it to the Hollywood rendering of the famous case. Introduces energy, discusses fossil fuels, and examines whether specific alternative energy sources are better for the environment.
She is the daughter of Edward Stanley Kowalski, a civil engineer, and Julianna Lesko Kowalski, a teacher and assistant principal of an elementary school. Kathiann Kowalski has run experiments in a biology lab, hiked through a research forest and toured a dairy farm. She has also traipsed around a petroleum drilling site in clunky steel-toed boots, snowshoed in frigid weather and helped haul in trawling nets of shellfish and fish.
These and other adventures help Kowalski to better understand the science and technology she writes about. As a science journalist, Kathi talks with a wide range of scientists and engineers about what they do and why it matters.
She has written more than articles, as well as 25 books for young people. In addition to writing, Kathi has spent 15 years practicing law, with an emphasis on environmental issues, corporate matters, and litigation. Between and Kowalski was a partner at that law firm.
In she launched a private practice in Fairview Park, Ohio. Quotations: "Getting into research facilities and out into the field is also just plain fun.
Footpath Dance Company , United States. American Bar Association , United States. Kowalski enjoys hiking and trips to the beach. She also likes to sew clothes. Her creations include tailored suit jackets and trousers, as well as a wedding gown for her older daughter. Kathiann M. Kowalski married Michael George Meissner on June 16, Looking for a job?
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