Thinking Ecologically

• Paperback | Engels | Yale FastBack
• Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and... Lees meer

Understanding Health Care Reform

Theodore R Marmor

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• The reform of American medical care is the most important topic on the nation's domestic agenda and the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's pl... Lees meer

Functions of Sleep

Ernest Hartmann

• Paperback | Engels | Yale FastBack | nr. 13
• This remarkable book brings together vast amounts of information and knowledge about a question that has always captured man's imagination: Why do we ... Lees meer

Childhood in China

William Kessen

• Paperback | Engels | Yale FastBack | nr. 16
• This perceptive volume gives a detailed account of Chinese children at home and at school. Recently, thirteen American experts in child development vi... Lees meer

Usable Knowledge

Charles E Lindblom

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• The problem that gives rise to this book is dissatisfaction with social science and social research as instruments of social problem solving. Policy m... Lees meer

The Poverty of Welfare Reform

Joel F Handler

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• Once again, America is getting tough on welfare. Democrats and Republicans at both the national and state levels seem to have agreed that paying publi... Lees meer

The Demise of Nuclear Energy?

Joseph G Morone, Edward J Woodhouse

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• Three Mile Island, Seabrook, Diablo Canyon: their controversies have come to symbolize the unhappy fate of American nuclear power. Three decades of ef... Lees meer

The AIDS Disaster

Mauro F Guillén, Charles Perrow

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• The seriousness, potential dimensions, and likely victims of the AIDS epidemic were known as early as 1981, yet the reaction of public and private org... Lees meer

Clean Coal/Dirty Air

Bruce Ackerman, William T Hassler

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• A pioneering study of dynamics of politics and technocracy that generated mistaken policies that still haunt environmental law today. Lees meer

The New American Dilemma

Jennifer L Hochschild

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• Conventional wisdom and democratic theory hold that the best way to achieve controversial policy changes is in small, cautious steps and with particip... Lees meer

The Ethics of Fetal Research

Paul Ramsey

• Paperback | Engels | Yale FastBack | nr. 15
• "So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable." -- Paul Ramsey ... Lees meer

After the Revolution?

Robert A Dahl

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• " After the Revolution? is brief, tight, and to the point. . . . With its unusual clarity, it is a useful text for anyone concerned with politics toda... Lees meer

Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic

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• "Mommy, why can`t the doctors make you better?"..."You won`t be there, will you? Who`ll take care of me?"--Rachel, age 5 AIDS breaks the rules of dyin... Lees meer

Tamoxifen & Breast Cancer

Michael W DeGregorio, Valerie J Wiebe

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• Tamoxifen is one of the most widely prescribed drugs used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer. A nonsteroidal antiestrogen, it has been success... Lees meer

The AIDS Benefits Handbook

Thomas P McCormack

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• "I know of no other publication that serves the function that this book provides. It is invaluable."--David Barr, Lambda Legal Defense and Education F... Lees meer

We the Poor People

Joel F Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld

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• Current welfare reforms--including recently enacted federal legislation--are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. ... Lees meer

The National Security Constitution

Harold Hongju Koh

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• Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national secu... Lees meer

Medicines Dilemmas

William Kissick

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• Can the United States provide a health care program that offers a comprehensive package of the highest-quality health benefits to all Americans while ... Lees meer