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10,000 Ideas for Term papers, Projects, Reports and Speeches
Call Number: REF DESK: LB1047.3 .L35 1998
Stumped on what to talk about?! Use this book to find inspiration.
99 Jumpstarts to Research
Call Number: REF ZA 3050 .W47 2010
Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: REF: HN57 .S624 2006
Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics

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Issues & Controversies
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CQ Researcher Online (Topic List)
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Infobase eBooks
Gale E-books (formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library)
eBooks at Chabot
Science Reference Center
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MasterFILE Complete

Journal of Social Issues

Journal of Social Issues
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Animal Rights by Lisa Yount
Call Number: REF HV4708 .Y84 2008

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Call Number: REF TP248.23 .Y684 2008

Capital Punishment by Harry Henderson

Disaster Response by Fred C. Pampel

DNA Evidence and Forensic Science by David E. Newton
Call Number: REF K5465 .N49 2008

Drugs and Sports
Call Number: REF RC1230 .P36 2007

Education Reform by Ian C. Friedman

Immigration by John Powell
Call Number: REF JV6201 .P68 2007

Internet Predators by Harry Henderson

Juvenile Crime

Nuclear Power by David E. Newton

Patients' Rights in the Age of Managed Health Care by Lisa Yount
Call Number: REF KF3823 .Y68 2001

Power of the News Media by Harry Henderson
Call Number: REF PN4888 .B74 H46 2004

Prescription Drugs by Fred C. Pampel
Call Number: REF RM301.15 .P36 2010

Prisons by Jeffrey Ferro
Call Number: REF HV9471 .F465 2006

Privacy in the Information Age by Harry Henderson
Call Number: REF KF1263 .C65 H46 2006

Racial Profiling by Fred C. Pampel

Right to Die and Euthanasia by Lisa Yount

Rights of the Disabled by David M. Haugen; Susan Musser; Andrea B. DeMott

Rights of the Elderly by Fred C. Pampel

Sexual Misconduct and the Clergy by Jeffrey Ferro
Call Number: REF BV4392.5 .F47 2005

Stem Cell Research by David E. Newton
Call Number: REF QH588 .S83 N49 2007

Threats to Food Safety by Fred C. Pampel
Call Number: REF TX531 .P26 2006

Tobacco Industry and Smoking by Fred C. Pampel

Weapons of Mass Destruction by Mary D. Davis; Arthur H. Purcell

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