American homelessness : a reference handbook / Mary Ellen Hombs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary world issuesPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Edition: 3rd edDescription: xiii, 299 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1576072479
  • 9781576072479
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: American homelessness.; Online version:: American homelessness.DDC classification:
  • 362.5/0973 21
LOC classification:
  • HV4505 .H647 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Facts and statistics -- Documents and reports -- Legislation on homeless assistance -- Homelessness and the law -- Directory of organizations, associations, and government agencies -- Selected print and nonprint resources.
Summary: 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.Summary: 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.Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.

Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Facts and statistics -- Documents and reports -- Legislation on homeless assistance -- Homelessness and the law -- Directory of organizations, associations, and government agencies -- Selected print and nonprint resources.

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.

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