The reference shelf

Presents a series of articles that explore efforts to make education available to everyone, especially to poorer nations where those governments have failed to provide adequate education for their people.

Contains over twenty articles from a wide range of national publications that provide a variety of perspectives on health care in sub-Saharan Africa--the topic assigned for the National High School Policy Debate for the 2007-08 school year.

Contains over twenty essays that explore evolution, covering historical figures in evolutionary biology, political debate over the topic, the genetic blueprint, the fossil record, and cognition and culture.

Presents a collection of twenty-eight essays associated with mandatory national service, and discusses issues including the prospect of a reinstated military draft, the Peace Corps, and other voluntary service programs.

Articles from a variety of sources including "National Geographic" and "Scientific American" present the science behind global warming and the arguments of skeptics and examine global warming's impact on the planet, what it may do in the future, and what can be done to offset or neutralize its effects.

Presents twenty-eight essays, articles, and excepts from book that describe women's rights around the world, and covers topics such as women in the public sphere, women's health care and mortality, violence against women, sex trafficking and prostitution, reproductive rights, and more.

Presents a collection of twenty-three essays that deal with civil liberties in the United States, and addresses such issues as terrorism and racial profiling, the Patriot Act, and more.

Presents a comprehensive reference manual that describes free trade and the history of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and discusses the loss of American jobs to Mexico, and the economical and political fallout as a result of the agreement.