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Through his collections of poems Timothy Steele has earned the reputation as a highly regarded poet who continue to work in meter. This volume brings together 35 new poems that extend the scope and deepen the spirit of his previous work. While always faithful to the richness and complexity of experience, the poems in The Color Wheel aim to be ......
''The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order,'' writes Frederick Buell, ''but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model--the notion that the world is somehow interconnected into a single system--has emerged, ......
Why Sports Teams Move and Cities Fight to Keep Them
Can a sports franchise ''blackmail'' a city into getting what it wantsa new stadium, say, or favorable leasing termsby threatening to relocate? In 1982, the owners of the Chicago White Sox pledged to keep the team in Chicago if the city approved a $5-million tax-exempt bond to finance construction of luxury suites at Comiskey Park. The city ......
High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program
Inside NASA explores how an agency praised for its planetary probes and expeditions to the moon became notorious for the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and a series of other malfunctions. Using archival evidence as well as in-depth interviews with space agency officials, Howard McCurdy investigates the relationship between the ......
''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, ......
Why do groups of talented and experienced individuals make disastrously bad collective judgments, such as the Kennedy administration's flawed decision to proceed with the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961? In his pioneering research on collective decision making, Irving Janis introduced the concept of ''groupthink''--a deliberately Orwellian ......
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 ......
''The chapters in this volume painfully drive home the point that certainly as far as Germany is concerned, the lessons of the Third Reich have not yet been learned . . . These significant attempts by younger recruits to the larger medical establishment to change things through eye-opening reflection and analysis, however uncomfortable, need ......
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. ......
