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Reviewed on July 1, 2004
Gr 6-10 These titles have been designed for easy informational skimming: brief paragraphs and chapter subheadings allow readers to find pertinent material quickly. The helpful sidebars are color-coded-yellow boxes ask questions or offer insights, green ones highlight primary quotes, and purple boxes provide biographies of major figures. After beginning with a description of the Seattle protest against the World Trade Organization in 1999, Grant moves on to define capitalism and discuss the Industrial Revolution. Utopian visions, communism, and socialism are explor...Log In or Sign Up to Read More