Global social issues: an encyclopedia

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This landmark reference is a comprehensive, one-stop, interdisciplinary resource that examines current, critical social issues in historical and global contexts. Nearly 150 in-depth, balanced, and thought-provoking articles cover a broad range of critically important topics: the environment, health, science, the media, ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.

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Full title :Global social issues : an encyclopedia / Christopher G. Bates and James Ciment, editors.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (140 entries) : : 230 images.

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oclc:on1264819247

Introduction: Global Social Issues in Perspective -- A -- Adoption -- Affirmative Action -- AIDS/HIV -- Alcohol Use and Abuse -- Animal Rights -- Antiquities Theft and Restitution -- Arms Trade -- Aviation Security -- B -- Biodiversity and Extinction -- Brain Drain and Talent Mobility -- C -- Cancer -- Capital Punishment -- Cardiovascular Disease -- Child Labor -- Children's Rights -- Climate Change -- Conservation and Recycling -- Consumer and Investor Rights and Protections -- Corporate Social Responsibility -- Credit and Debt, Personal and Business -- Crime, Organized -- Crime, Violent -- Crimes Against Humanity -- Cultural, Historic, and Linguistic Preservation -- Cybercrime -- D -- Defense Spending -- Deficits and Sovereign Debt -- Deforestation -- Desertification -- Diabetes -- Digital Divide -- Disability Rights -- Domestic Violence -- Drug Abuse -- Drug Resistance -- Drug Trade -- E -- Education, Higher -- Education, Primary and Secondary -- Elections and Voting -- Energy, Alternative -- Environmental Illnesses -- Environmental Justice -- Ethnic and Religious Conflict -- F -- Failed States and Nation-Building -- Fair Trade -- Farm Policy -- Financial Crises -- Fishing and …