Product Description: What would happen if today's chat rooms used a completely different technology, a technology only now available? How might it change the lives of those around you? How might you be changed? This LDS novel takles the lives of four individuals as they struggle with their lonely challenges and ultimately overcome them with the help of each other and the unlikely intervention of a newly implemented technological advance in communications software...read more

Product Description: Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious achievement...read more

Covers shop safety, tools, engines, troubleshooting techniques, cooling systems, exhaust systems, turbochargers, fuel systems, transmissions, suspensions, and brakes

Traces the development of sea charts from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century and discusses the techniques used by European mapmakers

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 politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth.

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