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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literacy Across Disciplines: What Does It Mean to Be "Literate" in the 21st Century? | |
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| 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework by National Council of Teachers of English | |
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| AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learnerby the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology | |
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| Visual Literacy in the Age of Participation by Barbara Rockenbach and Carole Ann Fabian | |
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| Expanding the Concept of Literacy by Elizabeth Daly | |
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| America 101: How We Let Civic Education Slide by Eric Lane | |
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| Statistics and Quantitative Literacy by Richard L. Sheaffer | |
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| Humanism and Quantitative Literacy by Robert Orrill | |
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| Looking Deep Inside Us: the Implications of Genetic Testing and Neuroimaging | |
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| Online Resources for Understanding the Human Genome Project and Neuroimaging | |
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| ASHG Statement on Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in the United States by American Society of Human Genetics | |
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| Stem Cells and Genetic Testing: the Gap Between Science and Society Widens by Ricki Lewis | |
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| Mind Reading by Arthur L. Caplan | |
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| Therapeutic Promise in the Discourse of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research by Beatrix P. Rubin | |
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| Using the Best Interests Standard to Decide Whether to Test Children for Untreatable, Late-Onset Genetic Diseases by Loretta M. Kopelman | |
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| Neuroimaging Techniques for Memory Detection: Scientific, Ethical, and Legal Issues by Daniel V. Meegan | |
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| Neuroimaging and the 'Complexity' of Capital Punishment by O. Carter Snead | |
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| Is the Concept of "Race" Real? Theoretical Debates and Practical Implications | |
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| Background Readings on Race in America by Classic Texts Online | |
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| The Origin of the Concept of Race by Ashley Montagu | |
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| Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race by Public Broadcasting System | |
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| Race and the Law by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele | |
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| Does 'Race' Have a Future? by Philip Kitcher | |
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| Race and the Human Genome Project: Constructions of Scientific Legitimacy by Patricia McCann-Mortimer, Martha Augoustinos, and Amanda LeCouteur | |
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| How Real Is Race? Using Anthropology to Make Sense of Human Diversity by Carol Mukhopadhyay and Rosemary C. Henze | |
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| Race in a Bottle by Jonathan Kahn | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be (or Become) an "American"? Citizenship and the Immigration Debate | |
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| The Elements of American Identity, from One America Indivisible by Sheldon Hackney | |
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| Teaching Citizenship and Values on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Susan Rippberger and Kathleen Staudt | |
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| Lessons of Belonging and Citizenship Among Hijas/os de Inmigrantes Mexicanos by Melissa Moreno | |
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| Preparing for Citizenship: Immigrant High School Students' Curriculum and Socialization by Rebecca M. Callahan, Chandra Muller, and Kathryn S. Schiller | |
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| The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration by Gordon H. Hanson | |
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| The Real Problem with Immigration and the Solution by Tim Kane and Kirk A. Johnson | |
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| Ethnic Identity and Imperative Patriotism: Arab Americans Before and After 9/11 by Steven Salaita | |
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| Studying the New Face of War: Definitions, Causes, and Effects across Disciplines | |
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| Occasions that Justify War, from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
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| Of War, from the Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Toward the End of War? Peeking Through the Gap by Pertti Joenniemi | |
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| America and the New Dynamics of War by Jason Royce Lindsey | |
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| Making War on Terrorists Reflections on Harming the Innocent by Thomas Pogge | |
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| Does War Beget Child Aggression? Military Violence, Gender, Age, and Aggressive Behavior in Two Palestinian Samples by Samir Qouta, Raija-Leena Punamaki, Thomas Miller, and Eyad El-Sarraj | |
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| What Is War? by Mary Ellen O'Connell | |
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| Beyond Petroleum: Finding a Sustainable Energy Future | |
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| Beyond the Age of Petroleum by Michael T. Klare | |
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| America Is Addicted to Foreign Oil by the Pickens Plan | |
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| Biogas as a Renewable Energy Source A Review by M. Balat and H. Balat | |
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| The Power and the Glory by Geoffrey Carr | |
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| Power Play by Berenice Baker | |
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| Catch-22: Water Versus Energy by Michael E. Webber | |
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| The Clean Energy Scam by Michael Grunwald | |
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| How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor by C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |