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Global social issues: an encyclopedia
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V. 1. A-F
v. 2. G-Q
v. 3. R-Z.
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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 Fish Stocks -- Food and Drug Safety -- G -- Gambling -- Gastrointestinal Disease -- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues -- Genetically Engineered Crops and Foods -- Government Corruption and Transparency -- H -- Health Care -- Hepatitis -- Homelessness -- Housing Costs, Finance, and Affordability -- Human Rights -- Hunger and Malnutrition -- I -- Identity Fraud -- Immigration, Illegal and Irregular -- Indigenous Peoples' Rights -- Inequality, Income and Wealth -- Infant Mortality -- Influenza -- Infrastructure -- Intellectual Property Rights -- K -- Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking -- L -- Land Mines -- Law, Rule of -- Literacy --
M
Marriage and Divorce
Mental Health
Migrant Labor
Mining Issues
Money Laundering and Illegal Transfers
Mosquito-borne Disease
N
Natural Disasters, Preparedness and Response
Neurological Disease
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Proliferation
O
Obesity and Eating Disorders
Oil, Economic and Political Aspects
Oil, Environmental and Health Aspects
Organ and Tissue Trade
P
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
R
Rape and Sexual Assault
Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Asylum Seekers
Regulation, Business and Financial
Religious Freedom
Reproductive Issues
Respiratory Disease
S
Sanctions, International
Secrecy, Government
Self-Determination and Sovereignty
Sex Tourism and the Sex Trade
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Slavery
Social Networking
Social Welfare
Suicide
T
Taxation
Terrorism
Tobacco
Torture
Toxic Waste
Traffic and Mass Transit
Tuberculosis
U
Underground Economies
Unemployment
Unions and Workers' Rights
Urbanization
V
Vaccination
W
War Crimes
Waste Disposal
Water Supply and Access
Waterborne Disease
Wetlands
Women's Rights
Working Conditions
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Books
Web Sites.
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Contributors
Bates, Christopher G
Bates, Christopher G. editor of compilation
Ciment, James editor
Credo Reference (Firm) distributor
Bates, Christopher G. editor of compilation
Ciment, James editor
Credo Reference (Firm) distributor
ISBN
9780765682925
9781784027117
9781784027117
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