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The Sanitary City

|9780822959830|Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present| Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide…

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Leadership and Decision-Making

…in decision-making. They describe a normative model which shows the specific leadership style called for in different classes of situations. The model is expressed in terms of a “decision tree”…

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Nature’s Crossroads

|9780822947387|The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota|Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession…

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The People’s Spaceship

…resulting initiative, the space shuttle, would become the centerpiece of NASA human space flight activity for forty years, opening opportunities for the public to engage with and participate in space

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Building Schools, Making Doctors

…for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how…

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