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The perfect primer for complex current event issues and countries…

With over 100 subjects to explore, Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® series offers authoritative discussions of complex contemporary issues from gender to sustainability to robots in a lively question-and-answer format. Interdisciplinary in nature, this online resource features titles spanning Arts and Humanities, Law, Medicine and Health, Sciences & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Regional and Area Studies.

Books in the series are written by leading experts in their fields, supplying students with the basic knowledge to drive conversations on matters of urgent debate. Authors address the key political, cultural, social, and economic factors influencing that topic through responses to incisive questions.

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