Three volumes contain 997 alphabetically arranged essays on individuals, general issues, books, films and other works, organizations and government bodies, laws, events, places, and court cases. The e
Before the 1960s, state regulatory officials responsible for protecting Great Lakes water quality followed a policy of "cooperative pragmatism" that was based on the principles of voluntarism, informa
Suburban sprawl, advertising clutter, vast industrial plantations of spindly pines punctuated by stone-lined gutters in place of streams--this was the thoroughly modern landscape of Germany by the tur
Both the history of the gun control debate, as well as the focus the debate will take in the future, are explored in this unique collection of over 200 documents spanning 200 years. High school and un
Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing." This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new c
Through the pages of Environmental History Review, now Environmental History, an entire discipline has been created and defined over time through the publication of the finest scholarship by humanists
Rose (history, California State U.) analyzes the political mechanisms used to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol. What makes the work unique is his emphas
A new edition of the book that received the Historic Preservation Book Prize and the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor AwardSince publication of the first edition of Saving America's Co
Everything you need to know about: Informed consent and parental consent laws, including a state-by-state listing Taking care of yourself during an unplanned pregnancy Finding a prochoice clinic and
Entering the moral worlds of Catholicism, the evangelical Protestantism of the Operation Rescue movement, feminism, and the classical liberalism expressed in modern medicine, Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-C
In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark's
Examines American attitudes about gun control, how those attitudes reflect the gun control movement, and the future of gun control in the United States
This pioneering Who is Who provides an unrivalled source of concise information on the major figures in environment and conservation. It contains biographical listings of 1,300 individuals worldwide,
"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists...But a Ch
Sustainable Food Security in Central West Africa is a network of researchers and policy makers in Africa and the Netherlands that works to achieve food security in West Africa through research and pol
For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting programmatic 'economic analyses,' also known as Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs), to assess the economic effects of its regulatory e
Modeling Environmental Policy demonstrates the link between physical models of the environment and policy analysis in support of policy making. Each chapter addresses an environmental policy issue
