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Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
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Description: Truly comprehensive in scope -- and arranged in A-Z format for quick access -- this monumental eight-volume set is a one-source reference for anyone researching the historical and contemporary details of major issues confronting American society.
Chapters cover the full range of hotly-contested social issues -- everything from academic freedom to consumer debt, homeland security, medical malpractice, poverty and wealth, reproductive rights, terrorism, and xenophobia. Each chapter discusses the historical origins of the problem or debate; past means used to deal with the issue; the current controversy surrounding the issue from all perspectives; and the near-term and future implications for society. In addition, chapters include chronologies, bibliographies, and directories of internet resources, as well as primary documents tables.
Selected Contents:
Introduction
Topic Finder
Cross Reference Index
Contributors
Preface and How-to-Use this Encyclopedia
Abortion and Reproductive Issues; Academic Freedom; Adoption; Advertising, Children's; Affirmative Action; Ageism; AIDS/HIV; Air Pollution; Air Travel: Safety, Security, and Service; Alcohol and Alcoholism; Animal Rights; Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Violence; Anti-Semitism; Arson; Arts Funding and Censorship; At-Risk Students: Higher Education; Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder; Autism; Automobile and Highway Safety
Bilingualism; Birth Control
Campaign Finance Reform; Cancer; Capital Punishment; Census Issues; Cheating, Academic; Child Abuse and Molestation; Child Labor; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Church-State Separation; Civil Liberties; Civil Rights; Coastal Pollution and Wetlands Protection; College Sports; Computer Crime and Hacking; Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy; Corporal Punishment; Corporate Crime; Corporate Downsizing; Crime; Criminal Rights; Cults and Alternative Religions
Defense Spending and Preparedness; Deforestation and Logging; Disability Rights; Divorce and Child Custody; Domestic Violence; Drought and Aquifer Depletion; Drug Abuse; Drugs, War on
Eating Disorders; Energy Dependency; Environmental Justice; Environmentally Induced Illnesses; Euthanasia; Evolution Education; Extinction and Species Loss: Biota Invasion and Habitat Destruction
Farm Issues; Food and Drug Safety; Foster Care
Gambling; Gangs; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Genetic Engineering; Gentrification; Global Warming; Gulf War Syndrome and Other Veterans' Illnesses; Gun Violence and Gun Control
Hate Crimes; Hate Radio and Internet; Hate Speech; Healthcare Reform; Heart Disease and Cardiology; Homelessness; Housing, Affordable; Human Experimentation; Identity Theft; Immigration Policy and Law; Immigration, Illegal; Indoor Air Pollution; Infectious Disease and Epidemics; Infrastructure Deterioration; Intellectual Property Rights
Journalistic Ethics; Judicial Reform; Juvenile Justice
Legal Services for the Poor; Literacy
Mandatory Sentencing; Marijuana; Mass Transit; Media Bias; Media Consolidation; Media Sex and Violence; Medical Malpractice Reform; Medicare and Medicaid Reform; Medicine, Complementary and Alternative; Mental Illness; Migrant Workers; Militia Movement; Minimum and Living Wages; Money Laundering
Native Americans and Government Policy; Natural Disasters and Disaster Relief; Needle Exchange Programs; Noise Pollution; Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) Issues; Nuclear Power and Waste; Nuclear Weapons
Obesity; Occupational Safety and Health; Organ and Tissue Transplants; Organic Foods; Organized Crime
Plagiarism, Literary and Artistic; Police Abuse and Corruption; Pornography; Poverty and Wealth; Prison Reform and Prisoner Rights; Privacy; Prostitution; Public Opinion Polling
Racial Profiling; Rape; Recycling and Conservation; Redlining, Loan Discrimination, and Predatory Lending; Rioting
School Standards and Testing; School Violence; School Vouchers and Privatization; Scientific Research Ethics; Secrecy, Government; Sex Education; Sexual Harassment; Single Parenting and Out-of-Wedlock Births; Social Security Reform; Space Exploration; Special Education; Stem Cell Research; Stress; Students' Rights; Suicide; Superstores vs. Main Street; Sweatshops
Taxes and Tax Reform; Term Limits; Terrorism, Domestic; Terrorism, Foreign; Terrorism, War on; Tobacco; Tort Reform; Toxic Waste; Traffic Congestion
Unemployment; Unions; Urban Sprawl
Voluntarism and Volunteering; Voting Issues
Waste Disposal; Water Pollution; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Welfare and Welfare Reform; Wilderness Protection; Women's Rights
Xenophobia and Nativism
Index
Review(s): "More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States are covered. ...The set covers each topic in impressive detail. ...A good buy for libraries catering to students of history and social science." -- Library Journal
"...a well-executed introduction to the political, social and economic problems facing the United States today. ...This excellent tool will serve readers in high school, public and college libraries." -- Gale Reference Reviews
"This multivolume set provides a rich source of information on social issues in American society... The entries are clear and well written, treating each topic succinctly and at the same time giving full attention to the central concepts of the issue. ...This set makes an excellent starting point for undergraduates searching for information on social issues; they will find not only succinct summaries of the concepts, but also some important data and references to pursue for more depth. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers." -- Choice
"The content of the encyclopedia is outstanding and a pleasure to read. Entries... pack a tremendous amount of information into a small number of pages. ... Social Issues in America provides the substance of an issue in an efficient and thought-provoking way. Recommended." -- Reference & User Services Quarterly
" Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia has been designed for ease of use and with the intent of being a helpful starting point for exploring high interest issues. That it succeeds so effectively is a compliment to Mr. Ciment and his collaborators. Libraries where social issues are an area of interest or a focus of student research would be well served by considering this set." -- Against the Grain
"...a thorough look at current issues for Americans. ...this set is recommended for public libraries who serve large populations of high school students, for high school libraries, and as an undergraduate resource for college libraries." -- American Reference Books Annual, Vol.38
    
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