Author: Norman R. Luttbeg
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: democracy, grassroots
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-10-27
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 0739100475
ISBN-13: 9780739100479

American cities provide many of the governmental services that contribute to a greater quality of life for their inhabitants. Local governments are seen as those closest to the people and most responsive to them, more so than state and national governments. Yet typical turnout in municipal elections is below 30 percent of those eligible; few people want to be candidates for low-paying positions in city governments; and seldom are elections competitive--rarely do they offer voters a choice of policy positions among candidates. In "The Grassroots of Democracy", Norman Luttbeg provides the result

Author: Philip Picton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: grassroots, networks, neural
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2000-02
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 033380287X
ISBN-13: 9780333802878

"Neural Networks" provides a gentle introduction to the subject, for undergraduates from computer science and electrical engineering degrees. This updated and revised second edition assumes no prior knowledge and sets out to describe what neural nets are, what they do, and how they do it. The main networks covered include ADALINE, WISARD, the Hopfield Network, Bidirectional Associative Memory, the Boltzmann machine, counter propogation and ART networks, and Kohonen’s self organizing maps. These networks are discussed by means of examples, giving the reader an overall knowledge of current

Author: Clint Bolick
Publisher: Cato Institute
Keywords: federalism, limits, tyranny, grassroots
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 1993-05-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1882577019
ISBN-13: 9781882577019

Shows how local government is sometimes the biggest violator of individual rights.

Author: Thomas Shevory
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: wti, incinerator, struggle, grassroots, burn, toxic
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0816648530
ISBN-13: 9780816648535

Debates over global warming and fossil fuel dependence dominate public discussions of the environment. For many of us, these debates are abstract because environmental problems do not yet disrupt our daily lives. But in communities throughout the United States and around the globe, environmental activism is not a matter of choice, it is a necessity.   East Liverpool, Ohio, is one of those places. Since 1993, the eastern Ohio River Valley has been home to a massive hazardous waste incinerator. The WTI incinerator in East Liverpool burns 60,000 tons of hazardous waste each year, has experience

Author: Jeffrey Stout
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: america, democracy, grassroots, organized, blessed
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2010-10-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 069113586X
ISBN-13: 9780691135861

In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Working outside the notice of the national media, ordinary citizens across the nation are meeting in living rooms, church basements, synagogues, and schools to identify shared concerns, select and cultivate leaders, and take action. Their goal is to hold big government and big business accountab

Author: Richard N. Aft
Publisher: Philanthropic Leadership
Keywords: united, ways, movement, international, initiatives, shape, grassroots
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0967638216
ISBN-13: 9780967638218

History of United Way

Author: Deborah Lynn Guber
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: environment, america, polling, revolution, grassroots
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-01-03
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0262571609
ISBN-13: 9780262571609

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, environmentalism has become woven into the fabric of American life. Concern for environmental quality has influenced how we think, work, and recreate; what we buy; and how we govern. But popular consensus on the environment is more complicated than it appears. The real question is no longer whether Americans side with environmentalism, but the depth of their commitment. This book argues that understanding public opinion, the grassroots of the "green" revolution, is essential to sustaining genuine environmental progress. The long-term success of the environmen