With Sã o Paulo, Tokyo, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Teheran rapidly approaching densities that are environmentally and emotionally unfit for human habitation, the need for urban planning has never been more pressing. Dispersed City of the Plains inventively pumps fresh air into the debate about what constitutes city building at the end of the twentieth century. It is a book that not only questions authority but supplies an alternative ...

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Sunstein, one of America's best-known commentators on our legal system, offers a bold, new thesis about how the law should work in America, arguing that the courts best enable people to live together, despite their diversity, by resolving particular cases without taking sides in broader, more abstract conflicts. Sunstein offers a close analysis of the way the law can mediate disputes in a diverse ...

If marijuana were legalized the drug problem would be eased. This is an assertion which this volume discusses in full. It describes the history of drug use and abuse and the US government's approach to drug control including deterrence, treatment, education and prevention. Articles confront topics such as the risk of a `war on drugs', an enlightened legalization policy, and ethical and legal dilemmas.
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The thousands of organizations that comprise America's private non-profit sector represent a national treasure. Yet serious pressures are altering the playing field on which non-profits operate, and many are responding in ways that may undermine their popular support. Salamon, a leading authority on the non-profit sector, has joined forces with other experts and the Aspen Institute to produce this volume, an integrated assessment of the state of ...

The reputation of Congress is not high, and anyone who writes about its ethics runs the risk of either encouraging the bashers or joining the apologists. This book was written in a spirit of respect for Congress and with an attitude of admiration for most of those who serve as members. ...

This book assesses the labor market consequences of privatization in developing countries (the Republic of Korea, India and Mexico) and transition economies (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany and Hungary) during the first half of the 1990s. ...

Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.<P>These new middle ...

This work is a study into labor practices, employers and employees. Contents: fundamental causes of labor unrest; relation between the employer and the employed; the worker and his wage; wages and profit-sharing delusions; fetish of industrial democracy; when they get together; economic truths of work; man and the machine; methods and policies of British labor. ...

Nearly every nation in the world is briefly described including important political events. The entries in the Dictionary of World Politics include familiar terminology such as McCarthyism or absentee ballot, but also dozens of less well-known terms that are associated with foreign events, countries or politics such as: - cabal - In political terms, a group that conspires secretly to achieve some goal, such as the overthrow of a popular ruler.- ...

This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such an optimum use of available human and material resources as to replace mass poverty with mass prosperity. Accessing a variety of primary and secondary ...