21st century issues

Examines the issues of animal rights' advocates and explores the treatment of animals over the centuries and twenty-first-century changing attitudes toward animal research and entertainment, as well as hunting for sport.

Presents a history of immigrants and refugees to America and examines their reasons for leaving their own country, the types of immigrants who have sought asylum in the U.S., the controversy over illegal immigration, and the changing attitudes towards immigrants.

Explores the origin and spread of the AIDS virus since the early 1980s and presents facts about the AIDS epidemic, attitudes about the disease, its progression, and scientific research to its cure.

Examines world hunger in the twenty-first century and provides statistics on its severity in underdeveloped countries, some of the causes of hunger, relief programs, the effects of war and conflict upon nations in distress, and how the hunger cycle can be broken.

Examines the history, tactics, and global effects of terrorism in America and other countries around the world and emphasizes the level of fear in the nation since September 2001.

Presents an introduction to genetic engineering, explaining what it is, looking at how the science has developed, discussing its possible uses, and examining changing attitudes toward genetic manipulation.