Issues

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Investigating current issues - justice to international, gender to crime, and education to law - helps students to develop critical thinking skills and, even more importantly, to turn them into informed citizens capable of responsibly making the decisions that will dictate our future. Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society brings important issues in today's world to students' attention, highlighting the complete historical background, contemporary status, and global view of each. It provides students authoritative context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources for truly understanding the issues that currently affect much of our global society, and for developing informed positions on those engendering controversy.

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