This book examines various positions concerning the cause and treatment of alcoholism.

Provides essays with varying opinions on issues surrounding the sale of organs and human tissue, discussing such topics as forced donations, organ trafficking, whether the sale of organs benefits the…

This book explores many issues related to adoption policies in the U.S., including: the benefits and drawbacks of open adoptions or sealed birth records, regulations surrounding international adoptions, issues related…

This volume addresses various issues related to addiction, including what some causes and sources of addiction are, how addiction can be prevented, how addictions affect relationships, and how addictions can…

A compendium of opinion on the issue of suicide among teenagers, including its causes, cultural variances, and prevention.

In the United States, each state determines the age at which a person can legally have sex. Age of Consent laws exist to prevent exploitation of young people, but these…

The extraordinary body of work by photographer Carleton Watkins - taken between 1858 and 1891 - constitutes one of the longest and most productive careers in 19th-century American photography. This…

This highly acclaimed and captivating book offers the world the most thorough understanding to date of "the Warning," or "the Illumination of Conscience"-a critical moment in human history when every…