American homelessness
Subtitle: a reference handbook
By: Mary Ellen Hombs.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Contemporary world issues
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Homelessness -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: Problems and crises. Analyses and answers. Contemporary World Issues explores -- topic by topic -- the critical challenges facing America and the world in the 21"st" century.

24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources? Contemporary World Issues provides a simple solution -- informed and readable authors offering concise yet thorough discussions of today's most talked-about topics as they affect America and the world.

Exploring such diverse subjects as tobacco and terrorism, rainforests and religion, affirmative action and urban sprawl, Contemporary World Issues provides the historical background, the contemporary context, and the resources for further research. Exhaustive, concise, accessible, accurate, and up-to-date.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index.