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''In this excellent, concise volume, Rothenberg reports his current views on this fascinating subject . . . Well argued and judicious . . . I cannot recommend this book too highly.''--Journal of the American Medical Association.''This intriguing theory will no doubt provoke lively debate both inand outside professional circles. For lay readers, ......
Awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize of The Society for American City and Regional Planning History and named Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Association of American Publishers.''A major contribution to the scholarship on the history of urban America and the history of American city planning . . . [Wilson's] discussion of the ......
James Lindsay offers a timely and comprehensive examination of the role the modern Congress plays in foreign policy. He shows how the resurgence of congressional activism marks a return to the pattern that was once the norm in American politics. He analyzes the distribution of decision-making authority in Congress and offers a broader ......
Keeping Control is a compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the possible causes of fecal incontinence, learn about important advances in management and treatment, and do something about the problem. Written by a noted Johns Hopkins physician and an experienced medical writer and ......
Most organizational theorists use the athletic team as a metaphor for the effective work group - specific players motivated to give their best performance in pursuit of a common goal. This book offers a different model, focusing instead on the complex ways that members of a leadership team interact, wield power, use language and create meaning. ......
Working from a broadened historical perspective, and employing political and economic analysis, Paul Brace places the states and their economies in a more understandable light.''A major work on what has been, until now, an understudied topic among political scientists.''--James C. Garand, Editor, American Politics Quarterly.''Perhaps the ......
After an introduction by the volume editors, the book offers a look at the complex relationship between nationalism and democracy. The authors then examine the special challenges facing democracy in ethnically divided societies.
Modernism is currently at the center of debate in intellectual history and throughout the humanities, a debate generated in part by the advent of postmodernism. While much has been written about the modernist movement in the arts at the turn of the century, this is the first book since H. Stuart Hughes's Consciousness and Society to examine ......
''A thorough, extensively documented, and well-written description of . . . the Superfund program and an astute appraisal of its many flaws . . . The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Superfund policy and politics.''--Policy Currents.''Hird has masterfully reviewed the superfund program.''--Environment.
