Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with Power Failure, another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers in this near future science fiction ...
Robert L. Lineberry and Edward P. Fowler, “Reformism and Public Policy in American Cities,” American Political Science Review, Volume 61 (September 1967), pp. 701–716. 6. Banfield and Wilson, City Politics. 7.
These were young men and women to whom $1 million a year did not seem like an outrageous benefits package. They didn't wish for luxuries, they expected them–flashy cars, cutting-edge art, trekking trips to exotic locales.
The Heyman Commission report in July 1960 was followed six months later by a similar effort sponsored by the Hospital Council of Greater New York. While the two commission reports differed in their emphases, both highlighted the staff ...
Presents a call to redeem and restrain technology through everyday Christian practices and sacraments, identifying dangers related to technology-driven lifestyles while outlining the steps and benefits of citizen-based decision-making and ...
This compact volume is must reading for any North American student of urban history. It ought to be in every school and college library in Upstate New York.
In this book, award-winning journalist Philip Chubb examines the tenacity of fossil-fuel interests and their allies in business, politics and the media when their power is challenged.
The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums.
Reliant on personal notes and diaries and other source material, Syeda Abida Hussain in this book, has recorded events that have resonated with her, and in which she had some part to play.
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