Product Description: In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces...read more

Product Description: Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Setting up a small business and ensuring its survival can be a daunting task. One in three new businesses fail inside a year, mainly due to a lack of proper preparation and forward planning. Salvation is now at hand in the shape of "Starting a Successful Business"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the height of his power in New York City, around 1870, William Marcy (Boss) Tweed's hands were everywhere in city government and party politics. His success in looting the city treasury and using the payoff to achieve his objectives earned him a reputation as the classic example of the corrupt municipal boss...read more