From the skyrocketing AIDS rate in Haiti to the oppressive pollution in industrial China, from the violent street culture of Nigeria to the crippling poverty in Nicaragua, from child trafficking in Thailand to child marriages in India, this jam-packed six-volume set explores all these issues and more in an unprecedented look at the world's children at the dawn of the 21st century. The Greenwood Encyclopedias of Children's Issues Worldwide (Six Volumes) by Irving Epstein (ISBN: 978-0-313-33614-0, Greenwood Press, 3048, hardcover, $599.95)