(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. Each of these books discusses a potential threat to our planet and its inhabitants. The straightforward content provides basic information, relevant examples, and possible solutions to problems. Warming attempts to deal with the controversy surrounding the issue. Maps, photographs, and sidebars clarify and add interest to the text, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Mapping Global Issues titles: Global Warming, Endangered Species, and Rain Forest Destruction.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. Each of these books discusses a potential threat to our planet and its inhabitants. The straightforward content provides basic information, relevant examples, and possible solutions to problems. Warming attempts to deal with the controversy surrounding the issue. Maps, photographs, and sidebars clarify and add interest to the text, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Mapping Global Issues titles: Global Warming, Endangered Species, and Rain Forest Destruction.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. Each of these books discusses a potential threat to our planet and its inhabitants. The straightforward content provides basic information, relevant examples, and possible solutions to problems. Warming attempts to deal with the controversy surrounding the issue. Maps, photographs, and sidebars clarify and add interest to the text, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Mapping Global Issues titles: Global Warming, Endangered Species, and Rain Forest Destruction.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. This book recounts the history of diseases from the Black Death to various epidemics (smallpox, tuberculosis, malaria, and influenza) to the recent worldwide spread of AIDS. Rooney touches on research related to the prevention, treatment, and cures of old and new ailments. Text boxes, photographs, charts, and maps give additional insight into the readable text, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. Dealing with worldwide immigration and emigration, this discussion centers on economic reasons, as well as on refugees forced from their homelands. Maps illustrate the movement of peoples to neighboring countries as well as to other continents. Brief vignettes tell of hardships in the process. The photographs add interest, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg

(4) YA Mapping Global Issues series. This book examines poverty from a global perspective, defining the term and presenting possible solutions. Using an abundance of statistics, Senker compares countries where hunger is most severe with more prosperous regions and discusses various causes (e.g., debt, disease). Maps, sidebars, and photographs clarify and add interest to the text, but the dull layout is off-putting. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Luther B. Clegg