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Policy, Administration, and LawPolicy, Administration, and LawAmerica’sWater andWastewaterCrisisThe Role ofPrivate Enterprise“In this distinctivebook . . . [Lewis D.Solomon] discusses thehistorical development and regulation of U.S.water resources and provides a comprehensiveoverview of current challenges, such as agingwater infrastructures, conservation efforts,dwindling natural supplies, population growth,funding, security, technological advances, andwastewater treatment. Solomon identifiesfuture trends like project privatizations andincreases in partnerships between privateand public organizations, and offers adviceabout how to fine-tune these partnershipsso they are win-win situations . . . Becausethe information here may be hard to findquickly by other means, the book will mostbenefit urban planners and policymakers.The content is illuminating and will appeal toreaders with an interest in civic affairs.”—Caroline Geck, MLS, Library JournalISBN: 978-1-4128-1823-0 (cloth) 2011240 pp. $39.95/£30.95/$C47.95/€38.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-4950-0 (paper) 2012240 pp. $29.95/£22.95/$C35.95/€29.00Defining DangerAmerican Assassins and the NewDomestic TerroristsJames W. ClarkeWith a new epilogue by the authorIn Defining Danger,James W. Clarkeexplores the culturaland psychologicallinkages that defineassassinations and anew era of domesticterrorism in America.The importanceand originality ofthis material hasbeen acknowledgedin presentations toand consultations with the U.S. Secret Serviceand some of the nation’s top independentprivate investigators.ISBN: 978-1-4128-4590-8 (paper) 2012445 pp. $34.95/£26.50/$C41.95/€33.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-4906-7 (eBook)**Lewis D. SolomonSynthetic BiologyScience, Business, and Policy“[Solomon] presents a policy framework forself-regulation of the promising new fieldof synthetic biology . . . The volume beginswith background chapters on scientificexplanations of the origins of life, thechemical basis for life as revealed bymolecular biology, and recent research onreading the genetic code and sequencing thehuman genome.”—Book News Inc.Synthetic biology, the modification of artificialgenetic code, is the future of medicine.Creating organs in the lab, developingdisease-fighting proteins, and creating lifechangingpharmaceutical applications areall examples of this new technology. Arguingfor self-regulation by the scientific andbusiness communities, Lewis D. Solomonrecommends a policy framework that wouldguard against governmental overregulation,which could create a barrier to innovation.Although synthetic biotechnology holdsconsiderable social and economic potential,absent a nurturing regulatory climate, it mayprove difficult to translate research discoveriesinto commercially viable applications.ISBN: 978-1-4128-1856-8 (cloth) 2011174 pp. $39.95/£30.95/$C47.95/€38.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-4647-9 (eBook)**Emotional BureaucracyRupert Hodder“Hodder questions the classic model ofbureaucracy and its relevance to developingregions.”—Book News Inc.Hodder challenges the Weberian distinctionbetween the role of emotion and a modernbureaucracy’s impersonal and rationalqualities. He suggests that bureaucraciesfunction differently, and offers a differentperspective. The focus is the Philippines,but Hodder’s conclusions are applicable toother developing areas. Two main themesare discussed. The first explores the classicWeberian model of bureaucracy. Thesecond concerns ways of thinking about thesocial features of bureaucracy. The focusis dimensions of bureaucracy that are lessdependent upon structure. What emerges isan innovative description of the social worldof bureaucracy and its attributes.ISBN: 978-1-4128-1493-5 (cloth) 2011286 pp. $49.95/£37.95/$C59.95/€47.00The Privatizationof SpaceExplorationBusiness, Technology,Law and PolicyBy unleashing entrepreneurialactivity,Solomon writes, itmay be possible tomove the space programfrom the historicprovince of NASAand several giantaerospace firms andcreate a renaissancein human spaceflight.The private sector canenergize the quest for spaceexploration and shape the race for the finalfrontier. Space entrepreneurs and privatesector firms have already made significantinnovations in space travel. They have plansfor future tourism in space and safer shuttles.Solomon details current U.S. and internationallaws dealing with space use, settlement, andexploration. He then offers policy recommendationsto facilitate privatization.ISBN: 978-1-4128-0759-3 (cloth) 2008128 pp. $39.95/£30.95/$C47.95/€38.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-4756-8 (paper) 2011128 pp. $24.95/£18.95/$C29.95/€24.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-1230-6 (eBook)**The Place of LawThe Role and Limits of Law inSocietyLarry D. BarnettThe framework forlaw proposed byBarnett is concernedwith activities thatare fundamentalaspects of socialorganization, i.e.,activities that aredeeply embeddedin social life, and isgrounded on a bodyof quantitative researchpertinent tothe societal sources and limits of law. Theframework is intended to apply to law insovereign, democratic nations that are economicallyadvanced and socially complex.ISBN: 978-1-4128-4258-7 (cloth) 2011499 pp. $59.95/£45.50/$C72.95/€57.00ISBN: 978-1-4128-4643-1 (eBook)**10 Order Online @ www.transactionpub.com* Only available from Transaction in North America** eBooks available through http://books.google.com/ebooks. 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