1. | | Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Environmental Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more]Similar Items |
2. | | Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyondAuthor: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | California and the West | Urban Studies | American Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more]Similar Items |
3. | | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiryAuthor: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more]Similar Items |
4. | | Title: Agrarian dreams: the paradox of organic farming in CaliforniaAuthor: Guthman, Julie Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Environmental Studies | California and the West | Public Policy | Social Science | Agriculture | Geography | Food and CookingPublisher's Description: In an era of escalating food politics, many believe organic farming to be the agrarian answer. In this first comprehensive study of organic farming in California, Julie Guthman casts doubt on the current wisdom about organic food and agriculture, at least as it has evolved in the Golden State. Refut . . . [more]Similar Items |
5. | | Title: American medicine: the quest for competenceAuthor: Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Medicine | Science | Medical Anthropology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: What does it mean to be a good doctor in America today? How do such challenges as new biotechnologies, the threat of malpractice suits, and proposed health-care reform affect physicians' ability to provide quality care?These and many other crucial questions are examined in this book, the first to fu . . . [more]Similar Items |
6. | | Title: Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in governmentAuthor: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notion . . . [more]Similar Items |
7. | | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more]Similar Items |
8. | | Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Law | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more]Similar Items |
9. | | Title: Civic innovation in America: community empowerment, public policy, and the movement for civic renewalAuthor: Sirianni, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Print Media | Environmental Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/dev . . . [more]Similar Items |
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11. | | Title: The color bind: California's battle to end affirmative action Author: Chavez, Lydia 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | California and the WestPublisher's Description: The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next g . . . [more]Similar Items |
12. | | Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health careAuthor: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Medicine | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more]Similar Items |
13. | | Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollutionAuthor: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Public Policy | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more]Similar Items |
14. | | Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recoveryAuthor: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Public Policy | Economics and Business | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more]Similar Items |
15. | | Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politicsAuthor: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more]Similar Items |
16. | | Title: Drug war politics: the price of denialAuthor: Bertram, Eva Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law | Sociology | Medicine | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Why have our drug wars failed and how might we turn things around? Ask the authors of this hardhitting exposè of U.S. efforts to fight drug trafficking and abuse. In a bold analysis of a century's worth of policy failure, Drug War Politics turns on its head many familiar bromides about drug politics . . . [more]Similar Items |
17. | | Title: Engineering trouble: biotechnology and its discontentsAuthor: Schurman, Rachel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Conservation | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Technology and Society | Agriculture | Technology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States . . . [more]Similar Items |
18. | | Title: Experiencing politics: a legislator's stories of government and health careAuthor: McDonough, John E. (John Edward) Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | MedicinePublisher's Description: John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquen . . . [more]Similar Items |
19. | | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more]Similar Items |
20. | | Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and powerAuthor: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of p . . . [more]Similar Items |