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Features A-Z entries and primary document excerpts that explore the turbulent history of poverty in America.

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In the 1990s, policy specialists made "dependency" the issue and crafted incentives to get people off welfare. This work gives an account of the thinking behind these very different views of "the poverty problem," in a century-spanning inquiry into the politics, institutions, ideologies, and social science that shaped poverty research and policy.

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This volume offers an examination of the nature of poverty and its relationship to gender and ethnicity in five post-communist societies. The contributors contend that a "new poverty" is in the making and that the growing underclass is strongly related to ethnicity.

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An examination of the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority. The authors analyze the impact for both California and the rest of the USA.

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The prevailing neo-prohibitionist approach to reducing alcohol problems is generally ineffective, often counter-productive, and is doomed to failure. The thesis is that a socio-cultural approach would be effective, and therefore, that public policy should promote this approach.

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This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, black and infant mortality, drug-affected babies, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and cigarette smoking.

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Asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. The liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution are covered and applied to the major issues of the abortion controversy.

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This work aims to provide a comprehensive listing of all periodical and monographic publications on pro-choice and pro-life issues published between 1990 and 1994. It includes all materials fitting parameters of research in ethical, legal, moral, religious and social arenas.

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A comprehensive listing of all periodical and monographic publications on pro-choice and pro-life issues between 1972 and 1989. The items listed are widely accessible in public, academic and school libraries, offering the tools to reach an informed opinion on the subject.

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In this exploration of new possibilities for the reduction of workplace violence and occupational homicide within a variety of work environments, Kelleher examines the crimes of the lethal employee or ex-employee and develops a profile of characteristics and behaviors often associated with workplace violence or murder.

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Vallance gives a current picture of the American drug problem and the ideological base that maintains it. Reporting the most recent economic cost data on the drug problem, the book states criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of current U.S. drug policy and then discusses its successes and failures.

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This book presents the candid stories of women at high hereditary risk of breast cancer who chose to have their breasts surgically removed while they were still healthy, rather than risk getting the cancer that had, in many cases, devastated others in their family.

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This annotated work represents the first bibliography since the AIDS epidemic began to unite scientific literature about prostitutes.

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A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes.

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This candid book reveals the enormity of the commercial sex-for-sale industry in the modern era.

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The volume belongs in college, university, and institutional libraries and collections dealing with social problems, women's studies, international relations, and world history.

The volume opens with a lengthy introduction by the editor, Nanette Davis, defining the situation in general, pointing to current trends and future concerns.

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This title describes how the rhetoric of the assisted-suicide movement can confuse potential suicide victims and their helpers, and how surrogate medical decisions are a growing threat in the lives of incompetent patients.