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Fred Hirsch's classic exposition of the social limits to growth manages to connect many of the apparently disparate factors that blight modern life.

No detailed description available for "Direct Democracy".

No detailed description available for "Island China".

No detailed description available for "The Changing American Voter".

Covers Libertarianism, Egalitarianism, the relationship between capitalism and democracy, ideology, and social and political awareness among the American public.

No detailed description available for "Autos, Transit, and Cities".

In this absorbing book, political scientist Abigail Thernstrom analyzes the radical transformation of the Voting Rights Act in the years since its passage. Whose Votes Count? should stimulate the overdue discussion that the subject deserves among all those concerned with American politics.

Graham proposes an explicit if minimalist approach by the federal government that would pull together and reform our de facto industrial policies in order to equip the U.S. with the institutional capacity to formulate industrial interventions guided by continuous learning, strategic vision, and bipartisan participation by both labor and management.

Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. The realm of the law is sometimes at a loss-constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law's long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating myths about science and technology.