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The Trouble with City Planning
What New Orleans Can Teach Us
A groundbreaking look at the successes—and great failures—of city planning, from New Orleans’ former director of city planning After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a...
Winning the Silicon Sweepstakes
Can the United States Compete in Global Telecommunications?
In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the many ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications and broadband development. Despite the appearance of robust competition and entrepreneurism in...
Turbulence
Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers
This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers...
The Settlers
And the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism
The controversy over settlements in the occupied territories is a far more intractable problem for Israel than is widely perceived, Gadi Taub observes in this illuminating book. The clash over settlement is no mere policy...
Moon
A Brief History
An entertaining, often surprising cultural examination of Earth’s moon, through history, science, and literature, from ancient times to the present Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the...
Notes from the Ground
Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside
Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.
How Intelligence Happens
From a scientist at the forefront of revolutionary work in neuroscience, a firsthand account of his search for the biological basis of intelligence Human intelligence is among the most powerful forces on...
Virtual Justice
The New Laws of Online Worlds
What happens in the virtual world doesn't always stay in the virtual world Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like World of Warcraft, Second Life...
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair
America on Trial
A fresh assessment of the infamous murder case that exploded into an affair of international concern What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder...
The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past
This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly...