This is the first parliamentary debate textbook for secondary school students. The text is designed to provide a theoretical and practical foundation for effective participation in parliamentary debate in competition or in the classroom.

Promotes critical and creative thinking skills through a discussion on the civil rights movement with various perspectives, and describes legal reform, popular culture, stereotyping, discrimination, Hurricane Katrina, and more.

People have been arguing about genetic research since DNA was discovered. Have you ever thought about genetic research? Are the advantages worth the risks? This book does not tell you what to think. But it will help you join in the debate.

These titles encourage critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue.

These titles encourage critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue.

Art, Argument and Advocacy offers a theoretical and practical foundation for effective participation in academic debate competition, as well as public debate and discussion events.

Combining the practical and theoretical, the text teaches students about verbal and nonverbal communication, how to research and present an argument, how to answer arguments, how to develop debate strategies and how to conduct a formal ...

Compares the issues and tactics used in debates to those used in negotiation, describes the effectiveness of these methods, and ties them into real-life situations of terrorism.

Encourages critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue.

Encourages critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue.