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Health care: The world's best-selling medicine : secondary content area: business: Fighting disease with disease: secondary content area: History -- Saved from certain death: secondary content area: Science -- Animal studies: Dolphins to the rescue: secondary content area: Behavioral science -- The gentle giant from Africa: secondary content area: Computer science -- Animal detectives: secondary content area: Health care: Food and nutrition: How the kiwi got its name: secondary content area: Agriculture -- The fifth taste: secondary content area: Culinary arts : Eat less, live longer? secondary content area: Biology -- Criminal justice: Teenage con man: secondary content area: Banking : Fingerprints don't lie ? or do they?: secondary content area: Information systems : I then . . .?: secondary content area: Language studies -- Psychology: Death by internet: secondary content area: technology -- The power of the mind: secondary content area: Sports and fitness -- Miracle on the hudson: secondary content area: aviation.

Read This! is a three-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. Read This!, Level 2 contains fifteen stories relating to the fields of Health Care, Animal Studies, Food and Nutrition, Criminal Justice, and Psychology. For example, students read about how the first vaccine was discovered, how Europeans came to see their first giraffe, and the potentially fatal risk of Internet addiction. The nonfiction readings are written in an accessible narrative style, and the vocabulary and exercise material are appropriate for low intermediate to intermediate-level students. This enjoyable and fascinating text eases students into reading content-rich texts.