Thomson-Gale.(Tattoos And Body Piercing (Lucent Overview Series))(Club Drugs (History of Drugs))(Insulin (Great Medical Discoveries))(Cloning)(Freedom from unfair searches and seizures)(The Cubans)(Confucianism (Religions and Religious Movements))(The Rise Of Islamic Fundamentalism (Turning Points in World History))(Book review)

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Thomson-Gale

27500 Drake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535

www.gale.com

Kids at the advanced elementary through middle school grade levels--even up to high school--will find these contemporary guides perfect for reports. Leanne K. Currie-McGhee's TATTOOS AND BODY PIERCING (1590187490, $28.70) joins others in Lucent's 'Overview Series' to examine social and health issues. A striking color photo of a tattooed, pierced face leads to surveys of the health and legal issues surrounding body art, its placement and its removal. A little over a hundred pages with black ...

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