Explains how volcanoes are formed, how and why they erupt, how they can be predicted, and the effects they can have on people and the environment.

As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past. The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamt of consequences,...

Describes and analyzes the decision to remove Japanese-Americans from the West Coast, their confinement in ten concentration camps euphemistically styled "relocation centers," and the various ways in which the Japanese-American people reacted to their unjust treatment during and after World War II.