Based on a 25-year research project, this book documents a significant downward spike in the ways that Americans gather in social groups--and recommends new ways that people can come together for the common good.
For his new book Robert Putnam visited a number of places across America where individuals and groups are engaged in unusual forms of social activism and civic renewal. These are people who are renewing their communities and investing in new forms of 'social capital.' Approximately a dozen such stories of civic innovation are told in this book. ...
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment ...
Many leading investment professionals believe that the strategies and methods used to build wealth will not work in the coming decades as the socio-economic and political climate of the US specifically and the global economy in general has changes drastically. Traditional wealth-building techniques, such as real estate and standard stock and bond ...
In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the world. The book is packed with many intriguing ...
In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO ...
IACP Award-winning chef Eileen Yin-Fei Lo brings American home cooks a fabulous selection of chicken recipes, from simple stir-fries to celebration dishes. 194 calligraphy drawings. Two-color throughout.
For more than a decade the leaders of the United states, Japan, Western Europe, and Canada have met annually to discuss international economic and political issues. Hanging Together analyzes the history of these seven-power summits, using the summits as a point of departure for exploring relations among the Western allies during these turbulent ...
It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments. Here, some of the most influential political ...
This examination of the dynamics of international relations attempts to define the impact of both domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights and trade.
This book is based on a research project co-ordinated through the Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Medical Education. The premise of the project was to understand how learning relates to change in order to better design education to facilitate change. The study involved 24 universities and systematically collected and analyzed ...
Edition: First Edition / Second Printing
Binding: Black Cloth
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Hardcover. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, a word written in heavy pencil on the ffep and a notation in blue ink on the front flap of the dust jacket, overall a clean used first edition (second printing)! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Black cloth with red lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar ... read more
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Charles D. Deshler; Will Wallace Harney; Jame Payn; Kate Putnam Osgood; Henrietta H. Hodich; Henry W. Elliott; Robert Herrick...
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Binding: Leather Bound
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1878
Description: Good. Harper & Brothers 1878 edgewear to leather binding with moderate corner wear, solid structure, decorative end papers, illustrated tight bright text with occassional spots. 951 pages. read more
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