The information series on current topics

Presents a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, quotes, articles, and charts, that provide information about the changing role of women in U.S. society, covering education, occupations, money, family concerns, politics, health, andother topics.

Provides a historical perspective on the problem of garbage, and discusses various topics related to garbage and its disposal, including municipal solid waste, materials recovery, air pollution, water contamination, hazardous waste, and environmental policy.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information about a range of environmental issues, focusing on energy, with discussion of oil, natural gas, coal, energy reserves, nuclear energy, nuclear waste, electricity, renewable energy, and conservation.

A Continuing Conflict - a history of capital punishment in america, Cruel and Unusual - supreme court rulings, Legal Decisions - circumstances, right to counsel, evidence, victim impact statements, youth, sanity, race and methods of execution, Death Penalty Statutes and Methods, Historical Statistics, Under Sentence of Death, Public Attitudes Towards Capital Punishment, Capital Punishment Around the World.

A compilation of facts and statistics on national security in the U.S., discussing the threat of conventional weapons, weapons of mass destruction, countries of proliferation concern, biological and chemical attacks, international and domestic terrorism, the military, and related topics.

Contains facts, tables, charts, and statistics that provide current and historical information about death and dying in the U.S., covering such topics as the definition of death, advance directives, and assisted suicide, and includes a list of further resources.

A compilation of information and statistics on AIDS/HIV, discussing the nature of the virus, its symptoms and transmittal, patterns and trends, at-risk populations, costs and treatments, testing, prevention, and related topics.

Presents volume twelve of a twelve volume series on health and wellness in America, and focuses on food safety and labeling, the American diet, agriculture, public asisstance programs, and much more.

Presents tables, charts, and discussions of statistics on nutrition in the U.S., covering such topics as agriculture, food spending, labeling, and obesity, and provides a list of further resources and a directory of organizations.

Presents a comprehensive survey of the problems associated with waste management and pollution in America and examines groundwater pollution, hazardous wastes, environmental policies, and ways to reduce the amount of waste through recycling and composting.