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CURRENT EVENTS AND ISSUES / GENERAL

Animal Rights The New Faces of The Student
and Welfare American Poverty Athlete’s Guide

A Documentary and A Reference Guide to the to College Success
Reference Guide Great Recession ALGERIAN HART AND
F. ERIK BROOKS
LAWRENCE W. BAKER 2 VOLUMES | LINDSEY K. HANSON
AND TIMOTHY J. ESSENBURG,
EDITORS

GREENWOOD
GREENWOOD
April 2015, 351pp, 8 1/2x11 November 2016, 149pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-61069-942-6 ABC-CLIO Print: 978-1-4408-4703-5
$100.00, £77.00, €91.00 January 2014, 935pp, 7x10 $39.00, £30.00, €36.00
eBook: 978-1-61069-943-3 Print: 978-1-61069-181-9 eBook: 978-1-4408-4704-2
$189.00, £146.00, €172.00
Through the use of primary source eBook: 978-1-61069-182-6 An invaluable guide for potential
documents, readers can learn about key collegiate student athletes, this guide
opinions and legislation in the important > AWARD WINNER presents strategies to assist student
field of animal rights and welfare—a 2015 Editors’ Choice Selection –Booklist athletes with life skills both inside and
current and highly relevant topic. outside of the classroom and athletic

FEATURES “ A fascinating, eye-opening arenas.
• Provides extensive coverage of a resource marked by sound FEATURES
variety of topics, ranging from historic research and lucid analysis. . . . A • Represents a unique resource that
events and information to the latest balanced, well-conceived survey supports the success of collegiate
developments in the field of animal of America’s most imperative athletes
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rights and welfare social issue. • Covers specific topics and situations
• Presents an impartial, balanced —Booklist, Starred Review, May 1, 2014 that are relevant to collegiate
representation of various political/ athletes, from recruiting to post-
moral perspectives on the issues in A timely examination of the effects of the athletic involvement
animals rights and welfare Great Recession on Americans and the • Shares real-world stories that
• Offers primary source material— resulting federal reforms to healthcare, document the experiences of former
such as the Wild Horse Annie Act of employment, and housing policies as a collegiate athletes
1959—that enables readers to review means to alleviate poverty. • Provides details and resources on
the exact text of important legislation
FEATURES schools and organizations
• Presents charts and graphics to
LAWRENCE W. BAKER is an illustrate key aspects of the Great ALGERIAN HART is sport
independent editor, writer, proofreader, Recession management graduate coordinator
and indexer with more than 30 years of in the Department of Kinesiology at
experience in reference, academic, and Western Illinois University.
trade publishing. LINDSEY K. HANSON is a staff attorney
at a nonprofit in Minnesota where F. ERIK BROOKS, PhD, is professor
ALSO OF INTEREST she represents low-income tenants in and chair of the Department of African
housing cases. American Studies at Western Illinois
Check out more Documentary and TIMOTHY J. ESSENBURG, PhD, University.
Reference Guides series titles on page 62. is professor of economics at Bethel
University, Saint Paul, MN.
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