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Contemporary World Issues

 

 


24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources? Contemporary World Issues provides a simple solution—informed authors offering concise yet thorough discussions of today's most talked-about topics as they affect America and the world.

Problems and crises. Analyses and answers. ABC-CLIO's Contemporary World Issues series explores—topic by topic—the critical challenges facing America and the world in the 21st century.

A world of questions. A library of answers. The titles in the Contemporary World Issues series cover the hot-button topics that students, readers, and citizens want to read about, write about, and know more about. Exploring such diverse subjects as tobacco and terrorism, rainforests and religion, affirmative action and urban sprawl, this series provides historical background, contemporary context, and resources for further research. Exhaustive, concise, accessible, accurate, and up-to-date.

Highlights
• Thematic essay and topical entry formats
• Extensive resources for further research
• Coverage of critical issues facing America and the world

Features
• Exhaustive introductory essay
• Chronology of key events, movements, and legislation
• Biographies of important individuals
• Directory of important private organizations and government agencies
• Annotated guide to print and nonprint resources
• Extensive statistical resources in tabular and graph form