Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia

ISBN-13: 9780765682925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1100 str.

Christopher G. Bates;James Ciment

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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, 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.

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Global Social Issues: Table of Contents.
Introduction: Global Social Issues in Perspective.
A-Z Entries.
1: Adoption.
2: Affirmative Action.
3: AIDS/HIV.
4: Alcohol Use and Abuse.
5: Animal Rights.
6: Antiquities Theft and Restitution.
7: Arms Trade.
8: Aviation Security.
9: Biodiversity and Extinction.
10: Brain Drain and Talent Mobility.
11: Cancer.
12: Capital Punishment.
13: Cardiovascular Disease.
14: Child Labor.
15: Children's Rights.
16: Climate Change.
17: Conservation and Recycling.
18: Consumer and Investor Rights and Protections.
19: Corporate Social Responsibility.
20: Credit and Debt, Personal and Business.
21: Crime, Organized.
22: Crime, Violent.
23: Crimes Against Humanity.
24: Cultural, Historic, and Linguistic Preservation.
25: Cybercrime.
26: Defense Spending.
27: Deficits and Sovereign Debt.
28: Deforestation.
29: Desertification.
30: Diabetes.
31: Digital Divide.
32: Disability Rights.
33: Domestic Violence.
34: Drug Abuse.
35: Drug Resistance.
36: Drug Trade.
37: Education, Higher.
38: Education, Primary and Secondary.
39: Elections and Voting.
40: Energy, Alternative.
41: Environmental Illnesses.
42: Environmental Justice.
43: Ethnic and Religious Conflict.
44: Failed States and Nation-Building.
45: Fair Trade.
46: Farm Policy.
47: Financial Crises.
48: Fishing and Fish Stocks.
49: Food and Drug Safety.
50: Gambling.
51: Gastrointestinal Disease.
52: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues.
53: Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods.
54: Government Corruption and Transparency.
55: Health Care.
56: Hepatitis.
57: Homelessness.
58: Housing Costs, Finance, and Affordability.
59: Human Rights.
60: Hunger and Malnutrition.
61: Identity Fraud.
62: Immigration, Illegal and Irregular.
63: Indigenous Peoples' Rights.
64: Inequality, Income and Wealth.
65: Infant Mortality.
66: Influenza.
67: Infrastructure.
68: Intellectual Property Rights.
69: Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking.
70: Land Mines.
71: Law, Rule of.
72: Literacy.
73: Marriage and Divorce.
74: Mental Health.
75: Migrant Labor.
76: Mining Issues.
77: Money Laundering and Illegal Transfers.
78: Mosquito-borne Disease.
79: Natural Disasters, Preparedness and Response.
80: Neurological Disease.
81: Nuclear Energy.
82: Nuclear Proliferation.
83: Obesity and Eating Disorders.
84: Oil, Economic and Political Aspects.
85: Oil, Environmental and Health Aspects.
86: Organ and Tissue Trade.
87: Parasitic Disease.
88: Pesticides and Artificial Fertilizers.
89: Pharmaceuticals: Availability, Cost, Efficacy, and Safety.
90: Piracy, Maritime.
91: Police Corruption and Brutality.
92: Polio.
93: Pollution, Air.
94: Pollution, Water.
95: Population Growth and Demographic Issues.
96: Poverty.
97: Press, Freedom of.
98: Prisoners and Prisoner Rights.
99: Privacy.
100: Privatization.
101: Protectionism and Free Trade.
102: Public Health.
103: Rape and Sexual Assault.
104: Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers.
105: Regulation, Business and Financial.
106: Religious Freedom.
107: Reproductive Issues.
108: Respiratory Disease.
109: Sanctions, International.
110: Secrecy, Government.
111: Self-Determination and Sovereignty.
112: Sex Tourism and the Sex Trade.
113: Sexually Transmitted Infections.
114: Slavery.
115: Social Networking.
116: Social Welfare.
117: Suicide.
118: Taxation.
119: Terrorism.
120: Tobacco.
121: Torture.
122: Toxic Waste.
123: Traffic and Mass Transit.
124: Tuberculosis.
125: Underground Economies.
126: Unemployment.
127: Unions and Workers' Rights.
128: Urbanization.
129: Vaccination.
130: War Crimes.
131: Waste Disposal.
132: Water Supply and Access.
133: Waterborne Disease.
134: Wetlands.
135: Women's Rights.
136: Working Conditions.
Master Bibliography.