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The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009. Its topics relating to things such as witchcraft have generated controversy. The second oldest works featured on the list were written by Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is often challenged for its language and discussion of racism.
Rank Country Year Titles Notes References 1 United States: 2013 275,232 New titles and re-editions 2 China: 2013 208,418 New titles and re-editions 3 United Kingdom: 2018 188,000 4 Japan: 2017 139,078 New titles and re-editions 5 Russia: 2019 115,171 6 Iran: 2018 102,691 New and revised 7 France: 2018 106,799 8 India: 2013
As with book censorship in the United States, the removal of publications from libraries due to public outrage is occasionally practiced. School libraries are especially likely to cause controversy. Canada has had a couple of widely publicized school board bans and one that notably turned into a supreme court battle, Chamberlain v.
List of schools in Charleston, South Carolina. South Dakota: school districts · high schools. Tennessee: school districts · high schools. Texas: school districts · high schools. Utah: school districts · high schools. Vermont: school districts · high schools. Virginia: school districts · high schools.
QS World University Rankings: USA. Since 2020, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published an annual ranking of universities in the United States with a separate methodology from their annual international university rankings. The metrics for the USA rankings are employability, learning experience, diversity & internationalization, and research.
New York University Press. Palgrave MacMillan (UK and Australia, St. Martin's Press in US) Politico's. Polity Press. Routledge ( Taylor and Francis) SAGE Publications. Science Publishers. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. University of Michigan Press.
List of best-selling albums. Platinum record for Michael Jackson 's Thriller (1982), the best-selling album of all time. This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the ...
The ambassador is the head of the Embassy of the United States in Ottawa . Prior to 1943, the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission to Canada bore the title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The U.S. mission to Canada was upgraded from legation to embassy status in June 1943; Ray Atherton was the first chief of mission to hold ...