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Celebrity Culture: Are Americans too focused on celebrities?Future of Marriage: Is traditional matrimony going out of style?Reducing Your Carbon Footprint: Can individual actions reduce global warming?These are just a few of the provocative questions contested in Issues for Debate in Sociology. This engaging reader allows students to see an issue from all sides and to think critically about topics that matter to them. Classroom discussion will never be dull again!About CQ Researcher ReadersIn the tradition of nonpartisanship and current analysis that is the hallmark of Congressional Quarterly, CQ Researcher titles investigate important and controversial policy issues. Offer your students the balanced reporting, complete overviews and engaging writing that CQ Researcher has consistently provided for more than 80 years. Each article gives substantial background as well as current analysis of the issue as well as useful pedagogical features to inspire critical thinking and to help students grasp and review key material:A Pro/Con box that examines two competing sides of a single questionA detailed chronology of key dates and events An annotated bibliography and Web resourcesOutlook sections that address possible regulation and initiatives from Capitol Hill and the White House over the next 5 to 10 years Photos, charts, graphs, and maps

This collection of non-partisan and thoroughly researched reports focuses on 12 hot-topic issues that impact the politics of race and ethnicity.

This Reader brings together pieces written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists to look at 12 key issues in urban politics and policy-making.

Comparative politics students will benefit from CQ Researcher's award-winning, non-partisan reporting that looks at today's most important problems, ranging from democratization and regime change to policies on immigration, welfare and religion.

Is the health care reform law a good idea? Should marijuana be legalized and taxed? Should government agencies do more to combat superbugs? Should fertility medicine be regulated more vigorously? Based on selections from "CQ Researcher", this title takes up these and other questions.

Unlike more traditional readers, Global Issues exposes students to a journalistic approach to controversial sociological topics, inviting them to consider and debate the real-world relevance of course concepts.

This engaging reader allows students to see an issue from all sides and to think critically about topics that matter to them.

The collection of articles in International Issues in Social Work and Social Welfare encourage lively classroom discussion and debate and bring pressing international issues into the classroom for almost any course across the social work curriculum.

The book supplements core courses entitled Environmental Management, Sustainability, and Business and Society, among other similarly titled courses.

Looking at the facts, analysis and opinions surrounding key issues in American foreign policy today, this text is an ideal resource for those studying US or comparative politics.

A selection of contemporary, cutting edge articles designed to get students thinking critically about and really engaging with issues central to childhood and adolescence in society today.

The book is a supplement to core courses in entitled Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment of Business, Business Ethics, and Business Policy.

Do carbon offsets slow climate change? Will the growing competition for energy trigger new international conflicts? Should water be privatized? Will global warming increase species losses? And can individual action significantly reduce global climate change? Tis title takes up these and other compelling questions.

Do international treaties improve women's rights? Is China's human rights record improving? Was Obama right to have the US join the UN Human Rights Council? This title takes up these and other questions. It explores who the key players are and what's at stake, covering the range of opinion surrounding an issue.