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Racial Profiling
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 45.00Is membership in a group ever a sufficient reason for special investigation, or do such actions always violate civil liberties? How common is racial profiling according to available evidence? What actions have opponents taken to end the practice? Is racial profiling effective in crime prevention? Racial Profiling addresses these and other related questions... more...
Tobacco Industry and Smoking
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 45.00Tobacco Industry and Smoking addresses the many serious and controversial questions related to the problem of smoking in the United States: Is the tobacco industry responsible for the harm of cigarettes? Should the goal of improving population health override individual freedom in the choice to smoke? Should the government regulate tobacco as much... more...
Rights of the Elderly
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 54.00Rights of the Elderly provides an overview of the history of this timely topic and the opinions surrounding it--from the Social Security Act of 1935 to the current activism of groups such as AARP and the Gray Panthers. Examining recent court cases such as Kathi Cooper et al. v. IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation and documents such as The... more...
Tobacco Industry and Smoking
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 54.00As the single largest preventable cause of premature death, tobacco use kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. A host of new laws has increased taxes on cigarettes and restricted smoking in public places, and U.S. smoking rates have declined. But nearly one in five adults in the United States still smokes. Despite vigorous criticism from... more...
Disaster Response
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 54.00It is impossible to ignore the relentless media reports of various human-made and natural disasters and the constant threats they pose to our society. Beyond the news headlines, recent disasters have prompted the restructuring of the U.S. government, namely the formation of the Department of Homeland Security and the reorganization of the Federal Emergency... more...
The Institutional Context of Population Change
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 46.00Despite having similar economies and political systems, high-income nations show persistent diversity. In this pioneering work, Fred C. Pampel looks at fertility, suicide, and homicide rates in eighteen high-income nations to show how they are affected by institutional structures. European nations, for example, offer universal public benefits for... more...
Prescription Drugs
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Each volume of the Facts On File Library in a Book series is carefully designed to be a first-stop research source on important current issues. Written clearly and carefully so that even the most complex aspects of the topic are easily understandable, the books give the reader the essential information to begin work, plus the research tools needed... more...
Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 124.99This sociological study compares the evolution of old-age security policy across a spectrum of industrialized nations and developing countries. more...
Age, Class, Politics, and the Welfare State
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 27.00This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. more...
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