Essential Primary Source titles are part of a ten-volume set of books in the Social Issues Primary Sources Collection designed to provide primary source documents on leading social issues of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. International in scope, each volume is devoted to one topic and will contain approximately 160 to 175 documents that will include and discuss speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays, songs, and works of art essential to understanding the complexity of the topic.

Each entry will include standard subheads: key facts about the author; an introduction placing the piece in context; the full or excerpted document; a discussion of the significance of the document and related event; and a listing of further resources (books, periodicals, Web sites, and audio and visual media).

Each volume will contain a topic specific introduction, topic-specific chronology of major events, an index especially prepared to coordinate with the volume topic, and approximately 150 images.

Volumes are intended to be sold individually or as a set.

THE ESSENTIAL PRIMARY SOURCE SERIES

• Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
• Medicine, Health, and Bioethics: Essential Primary Sources
• Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources
• Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
• Gender Issues and Sexuality: Essential Primary Sources
• Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources
• Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources
• Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
• Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
• Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources