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Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia
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Description: 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, to name just a few. Each original, signed article provides historical context as well as a thorough discussion and analysis of contemporary issues facing today's interconnected world.
Articles also include international primary documents (all with original introductions) that facilitate a deeper understanding of the topic. In addition, extensive further reading lists, vetted websites for additional information, images, statistical tables, and figures are provided. In all,Global Social Issues provides essential information-both qualitative and quantitative-to enable students to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze key issues and future challenges from a global perspective. It provides a framework to better comprehend hot-button topics in the news and will help promote global awareness and critical thinking skills that are essential to 21st century "global citizens."
Selected Contents:
Topic Finder
Contributors
Introduction
Adoption
Affirmative Action
AIDS/HIV
Alcohol Use and Abuse
Animal Rights
Antiquities Theft and Restitution
Arms Trade
Aviation Security
Biodiversity and Extinction
Brain Drain and Talent Mobility
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
Defense Spending
Deficits and Sovereign Debt
Deforestation
Desertification
Diabetes
Digital Divide
Disability Rights
Domestic Violence
Drug Abuse
Drug Resistance
Drug Trade
Education, Higher
Education, Primary and Secondary
Elections and Voting
Energy, Alternative
Environmental Justice
Environmental Illnesses
Ethnic and Religious Conflict
Failed States and Nation-Building
Fair Trade
Farm Policy
Financial Crises
Fishing and Fish Stocks
Food and Drug Safety
Gambling
Gastrointestinal Disease
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods
Government Corruption and Transparency
Health Care
Hepatitis
Homelessness
Housing Costs, Finance, and Affordability
Human Rights
Hunger and Malnutrition
Identity Fraud
Immigration, Illegal and Irregular
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Inequality, Income and Wealth
Infant Mortality
Influenza
Infrastructure
Intellectual Property Rights
Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking
Land Mines
Law, Rule of
Literacy
Marriage and Divorce
Mental Health
Migrant Labor
Mining Issues
Money Laundering and Illegal Transfers
Mosquito-borne Disease
Natural Disasters, Preparedness and Response
Neurological Disease
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Proliferation
Obesity and Eating Disorders
Oil, Economic and Political Aspects
Oil, Environmental and Health Aspects
Organ and Tissue Trade
Parasitic Disease
Pesticides and Artificial Fertilizers
Pharmaceuticals: Availability, Cost, Efficacy, and Safety
Piracy, Maritime
Police Corruption and Brutality
Polio
Pollution, Air
Pollution, Water
Population Growth and Demographic Issues
Poverty
Press, Freedom of
Prisoners and Prisoner Rights
Privacy
Privatization
Protectionism and Free Trade
Public Health
Rape and Sexual Assault
Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers
Regulation, Business and Financial
Religious Freedom
Reproductive Issues
Respiratory Disease
Sanctions, International
Secrecy, Government
Self-Determination and Sovereignty
Sex Tourism and the Sex Trade
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Slavery
Social Networking
Social Welfare
Suicide
Taxation
Terrorism
Tobacco
Torture
Toxic Waste
Traffic and Mass Transit
Tuberculosis
Underground Economies
Unemployment
Unions and Workers' Rights
Urbanization
Vaccination
War Crimes
Waste Disposal
Water Supply and Access
Waterborne Disease
Wetlands
Women's Rights
Working Conditions
Selected Bibliography
Index
Review(s): "A tour de force compendium of 136 current concerns, Sharpe's three-volume overview summarizes the parameters and possible outcomes of world problems ranging from government secrecy and underground economies to polio outbreaks and higher education. ... A valuable, reasonably priced reference set for school and public libraries, this deserves a space on the social-studies shelf." -- Booklist
"With articles ranging from adoption to war crimes, this set covers a multitude of subjects that affect various cultures and countries. Each entry offers a history of the topic and describes its effects and potential impact. ... What sets this work apart ... is the inclusion of two primary sources in each article. They usually include one historical and one more-contemporary document per entry. ... A solid choice for reference collections." -- School Library Journal
"Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia is the type of reference work that students will naturally turn to in order to locate background information on a topic. Each chapter provides a straightforward treatment that places the issue in historic context while keeping a focus on current status and recent developments. In addition, each chapter offers solid leads to books, journal articles, and Web resources useful in furthering a student's research. Libraries serving undergraduates and high school students with assignments on global issues will find this set worth considering." -- Against the Grain
"This valuable three-volume reference work will be especially useful for undergraduate students because it covers topics that are of high interest and frequently chosen. ... The essays offer readers thorough and detailed background on each issue, including historical development and contemporary perspectives. Especially useful are the current statistics that are frequently included. ... This set is particularly valuable for its international coverage and clear explanations of social issues with historical perspectives. The 70-page index increases functionality and improves the subject access. An indispensable addition for college libraries and for large high school collections. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers." -- Choice
    
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