| Description |
8 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Abortion and reproductive issues - Campaign finance reform -- v. 2. Cancer - Disability rights -- v. 3. Divorce and child custody - Gun violence and gun control -- v. 4. Hate crimes - Media consolidation -- v. 5. Media sex and violence - Pornography -- v. 6. Poverty and wealth - Superstores vs. Main Street -- v. 7. Sweatshops - Xenophobia and Nativism -- v. 8. Index. -- |
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Academic Freedom; Adoption; Advertising, Children's; Affirmative Action; Ageism; AIDS/HIV; Air Pollution; Airline Issues; Alcohol Abuse; 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 -- Bi-lingualism; 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, Hacking; Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy; Corporal Punishment; Corporate Crime; Crime; Criminal Rights; Cults and Alternative Religions -- Defense Spending and Preparedness; Deforestation and Logging; Disability Rights; Divorce and Child Support; Domestic Violence; Downsizing, corporate; Drought and Aquifer Depletion; Drug Abuse; Drugs, War on -- Eating Disorders; Energy Dependency; Environmental Justice; Environmentally-Induced Illness; Euthanasia; Evolution Education; Extinction and Species Loss: Biota Invasion and Habitat Destruction -- Farm crisis; Food and Drug Safety; Foster Care -- Gambling; Gangs; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Genetic Engineering; Gentrification; Global Warming; Gun Violence and Gun control -- Hate Crimes; Hate Internet and Radio; Hate Speech; Health Care Reform; Heart Disease; Homelessness; Housing costs; Human experimentation -- Identity Theft; Immigration; Immigration, Illegal; Indoor 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; Medicare and Medicaid Reform; Medicine, Alternative; Mental Illness; Migrant Workers; Militia Movement; Minimum and Living Wages; Money Laundering -- N(ot) I(n) M(y) B(ackyard) Y(ard) Issue; Native Americans and Government Policy; Natural Disasters and Disaster Relief; Needle Exchange Programs; Noise Pollution; Nuclear Power and Waste; Nuclear Weapons -- Obesity; Occupational Safety and Health; Organ and Tissue Transplants; Organic Foods; Organized Crime -- Plagiarism; Police Abuse and Corruption; Pornography; Poverty and Wealth; Prison Reform and Prisoner Rights; Privacy; Prostitution; Public Opinion Polling -- |
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Racial Profiling; Rape; Recycling and Conservation; Red-lining and Loan Discrimination; Reproductive Rights and Technology; Rioting -- School Standards and Testing; School Violence; School Vouchers and Privatization; Scientific Research Ethics; Secrecy, Governmental; Sex Education; Sexual Harassment; Single Parenting; Social Security Reform; Space Exploration, Costs and Benefits; Special Education; Stem Cell Research; Stress; Student Rights; Suicide; Superstores v. Main Street; Sweatshops -- Tax Reform; Term Limits; Terrorism, Domestic; Terrorism, Foreign; Terrorism, War on; Tobacco and Tobacco-Related Health Issues; Tort Reform; Toxic Waste; Traffic Congestion -- Unemployment; Unions; Urban Sprawl -- Veterans' Issues; 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. |
| Subject |
Social problems -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Social problems. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Social movements -- United States -- Encyclopedias.
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Social movements. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- Encyclopedias.
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Social conditions. |
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United States -- Social policy -- Encyclopedias.
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Social policy. |
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Social movements. |
| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Ciment, James.
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| ISBN |
0765680610 hardcover set alkaline paper |
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9780765680617 hardcover set alkaline paper |
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