In keeping with the University of Kentucky's commitment to reduce risks associated with the novel coronavirus, all public library spaces on campus are CLOSED. UK Libraries is now operating on an online service delivery model. View our online services and resources here.

In keeping with the University of Kentucky's commitment to reduce risks associated with the novel coronavirus, all public library spaces on campus are CLOSED. UK Libraries is now operating on an online service delivery model. View our online services and resources here.

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In keeping with the University of Kentucky's commitment to reduce risks associated with the novel coronavirus, all public library spaces on campus are CLOSED. UK Libraries is now operating on an online service delivery model. View our online services and resources here.

UK Libraries has shifted to an online service delivery model due to the temporary closing of campus library locations.

Please contact us via chat
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Email requests after hours are generally answered within one business day.

Additional help options can be found on our Ask Us page.

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Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources

Description

Focuses on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. Available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).

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Gale Cengage Learning

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Forestry & Natural Resources

Coverage

2006 ed.

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