1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797395403321

Autore

Bettivia Rhiannon

Titolo

The middle schoolers' debatabase : 75 current controversies for debaters / / Rhiannon Bettivia and National Forensic League

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : International Debate Education Association, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-932716-80-7

1-61770-076-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

808.53

Soggetti

Debates and debating - Study and teaching (Middle school)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction to Debate""; ""Debate Topics""; ""Adoptions, International""; ""Airline Passengers, Pay by Weight""; ""Animal Testing""; ""Art Subsidies, Government""; ""Cell Phones in Schools""; ""Cell Phones while Driving""; ""Charter Schools""; ""Cigarettes, Ban""; ""Cloning""; ""Contraceptives in Schools""; ""Copenhagen Accord""; ""Death Penalty""; ""Defense Spending, Cut""; ""Die with Dignity, Right to""; ""Draft, Military""; ""Dress Codes in Schools""; ""Drilling for Oil in Parks and Preserves""; ""Driving Age""; ""Drug Testing in Schools""

""Electoral College""""Environmental Standards, Differing""; ""Factory Farming, Banning""; ""Farm Subsidies""; ""Fashion Models, Size Zero""; ""Federal Student Aid""; ""Felon Disenfranchisement""; ""Gas Guzzlers, Ban""; ""Genetically Modified Foods""; ""Gentrification""; ""Health Care, Universal""; ""Health Courses for Students""; ""International Baccalaureate""; ""Junk Food Tax""; ""Juvenile Offenders in Adult Courts""; ""Letter Grades""; ""Martin Luther King, Jr. Day""; ""Meat, Eating""; ""Metric System, Adopting""; ""Minimum Wage""; ""Movie Rating System""

""National High School Graduation Exam""""No Child Left Behind""; ""Non-standard English in Schools""; ""Nuclear Power, U.S. Switch to""; ""Official Language, English as""; ""Oil Dependency, Ending Foreign""; ""Penny, Abolish the""; ""Physical Education, Mandatory""; ""Plastic Bags,



Banning""; ""Pledge of Allegiance in Schools""; ""Presidents, Non-native""; ""Puerto Rican Statehood""; ""Rap Music""; ""Restaurants, Ban All-you-can-eat Establishments""; ""Right to Know""; ""School Day, Length of""; ""Schools, Year-round""; ""Second Amendment""; ""Single-sex Schools""

""Smokers, Government Benefits and""""Space Program""; ""Spanish Mandatory in Schools""; ""Sports in Schools""; ""Swimming Pools, Private""; ""Term Limits""; ""Terrorists, Negotiate with""; ""Torture""; ""Trans Fats, Ban""; ""U.N. Headquarters""; ""U.N. Security Council""; ""Video Games""; ""Voting, Mandatory""; ""Wiretaps, Warrantless""; ""Zero Tolerance in Schools""; ""Zoos""; ""Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780693003321

Autore

Bothwell Robert

Titolo

Eldorado : Canada's national uranium company / / Robert Bothwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1984

©1984

ISBN

1-282-01192-8

9786612011924

1-4426-7433-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

338.7/6223492/0971

Soggetti

Uranium industry - Canada - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Prologue""; ""1 The Canadian Shield""; ""2 Northern Lights""; ""Interlude: The Powers of the Atom""; ""3 From Radium to Uranium""; ""4 Private into Public""; ""Interlude: War into Cold War""; ""5 The Shadow of War""; ""6 Mines and Money""; ""Interlude: Searching for Security""; ""7 Stoking a Boom: The Search for a Just Price""; ""8 Beaverlodge and the Boom""; ""9



Beaverlodge and the Boom: II""; ""10 Getting There Is Half the Fun""; ""Interlude: Atoms for Peace""; ""11 The Politics of Peace""; ""12 Too Little, Too Soon""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""

""A""""b""; ""c""; ""d""; ""e""; ""f""; ""g""; ""h""; ""i""; ""j""; ""k""; ""l""; ""m""; ""n""; ""o""; ""p""; ""r""; ""s""; ""t""; ""u""; ""v""; ""w""

Sommario/riassunto

History of the Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. whose mine at Port Radium, NWT became famous first for its radium and later its uranium content.