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What causes sprawl, and are there sensible solutions to its aggravating problems? Nozzi delivers an easy-to-follow introduction to sprawl's causes and offers common-sense solutions available to communities. The time is ripe for resurrecting the tradition of designing that makes people, not cars, happy.

Responding directly to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, an outstanding interdisciplinary group of academics, clinicians, and activists from around the world united to produce this clear exploration of terrorism.

This remarkable collection reveals the psychological intricacies of war, conflict resolution, and peace, from the effects of civil war to the process by which everyday people are transformed into perpetrators of genocide, from what primates can teach us about peacemaking to what it takes to create and maintain a stable peace.

This informative set analyzes the dynamics involved with creating, growing, and managing small businesses amid different geographic, institutional, and political environments.

A fascinating look at the role that households-and the dynamics of families, in particular-play in creating economic growth and social stability in modern economies and markets.

Supporters of the Reagan presidency claim that the Reagan Revolution defeated inflation, reduced the role of government, rehabilitated the authority of the states and local government, and established a sensible balance between industrial progress and environmental protection.

This collection of essays by academics and practitioners on the school violence and how to prevent provides valuable insight for teachers, parents, counselors, school administrators, and psychologists dealing with violent children and their victims.

Experts explain the apparent epidemic of psychological disorders among our children and teenagers presenting insights to the causes, displays, repercussions, and potential cures.

By introducing and explaining the intersection of two exciting and important areas of study, this landmark work unleashes their potential to address some of the most complex and globally relevant challenges of our time.

A collection of papers presented at a 1985 conference on work stress and health care. In this comprehensive volume, the authors, well-known experts in their field, present a broad spectrum of stress-related conditions in the workplace and discuss the relationship between prevention and therapy. Throughout the volume contributing researchers and practitioners present different aspects of stress and suggest a number of intervention strategies. E...

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Wolff examines the domestic and international dynamics of the German question, one of the 20th century's most interesting and complex phenomena since its 1919 inception. The German question is best described as the incompatibility of the territory of any German state with the extent of German "cultural space" and the different ways in which Germany and the relevant European and world powers have responded to the various problems arising from t...

From ancient Greece through the present day, women writers have confronted the male urge to make war by imagining communities in which intuitive bonding among individuals questions and replaces masculinist values of aggression and competition. Women's Vision in Western Literature traces the "gender gap" in literature from 600 B.C. to the present day through an examination of seven extraordinary women writers from Sappho to Christa Wolf. Combin...

School districts throughout the nation are searching for alternatives to social promotion and retention, but what other options are there? This book examines these practices in the modern context and offers alternative approaches to ensuring that students gain critical study and job-related skills.

Since 1950, when his short stories first appeared, Kurt Vonnegut has published almost 50 short stories, 13 novels, two plays, and a teleplay. He has remained one of the most important chroniclers of American life. Yet he occupies an ambiguous place in American letters. Following three interviews with Vonnegut, the 14 essays in this collection seek to chronicle his career as it moves through changing times. The essays either focus on Vonnegut's...

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The use of quotations or proverbs to convey a message is an important communication technique in the Igbo society of southeastern Nigeria. Penfield contends that there are few, if any, satisfactory ethnographic investigations of where, why, how, and by whom or among whom proverbs are used, and the range of interactional situations in which they are used. Such a study, Penfield believes, would reveal the significant patterns and values of a par...

Since the early 1990s culture wars, policymakers have awoken to the need for forward-looking research on the creation, dissemination, and support of the arts. In this unique collection, distinguished arts researchers demonstrate how an emerging policy community can prepare the arts sector to wisely meet diverse challenges in the new millennium.

This lively and provocative collection of essays on the social upheavals of the 1960s is a major contribution to our understanding of that tumultuous decade. Written by a group of former sixties activists, most of whom are now academics, it combines a unique transracial dialogue on that activism with incisive analyses of the context within which radicalism developed.

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