The Malthusian Moment locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in a twentieth-century revival of interest in Thomas Malthus's theory of population growth, shedding new light on some of the big stories of postwar American life: the role of the federal government, urban and suburban...

Cover -- Power and Willpower in the American Future -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: The American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Purpose -- Primacy Past and Present -- Responses to Decline -- Information, Socialization, and National...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fragmentation, Policy Integration, and Policy Change -- 3 US Climate Policy -- 4 Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Generating Electricity -- 5 Increasing Energy Efficiency and the Use of Alternative Energy -- 6 Transforming Transportation...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors and Participants -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Small World of Corporate Governance: An Introduction -- 2 Is There an Anglo-Saxon Model? -- 3 The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics -- 4 Ownership Networks and New Institutional...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Life Beyond the Limits: Inventing the Bioeconomy -- 2. On Pharmaceutical Empire: AIDS, Security, and Exorcism -- 3. Preempting Emergence: The Biological Turn in the War on Terror -- Intermezzo -- 4. Contortions: Tissue Engineering and...

Intro -- U. S. BIOBASED PRODUCTS MARKET POTENTIAL AND PROJECTIONS THROUGH 2025 -- U. S. BIOBASED PRODUCTS MARKET POTENTIAL AND PROJECTIONS THROUGH 2025 -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- ABSTRACT -- BENEFITS -- PUBLIC...

Intro -- U.S. ENERGY: OVERVIEW OF THE TRENDS, STATISTICS, SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION -- U.S. ENERGY: OVERVIEW OF THE TRENDS, STATISTICS, SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ENERGY OUTLOOKS AND FEDERAL RESOURCES HEARING-BIROL TESTIMONY -- Chapter 2 ENERGY OUTLOOKS AND FEDERAL...

Intro -- U.S. ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AN OVERVIEW AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- U.S. ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AN OVERVIEW AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 THE MANHATTAN PROJECT, THE APOLLO PROGRAM, AND FEDERAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY R&D PROGRAMS: A COMPARATIVE...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Twilight Rails -- 1. A Road with a Bright Future: Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad -- 2. Crazy Willie & Dandy Molly: Creston, Winterset & Des Moines Railroad -- 3. The Handy Lines: Detroit, Bay City & Western Railroad and Port...