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  • DETROIT
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    DETROIT
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    As America's most dysfunctional big city, Detroit faces urban decay, population losses, fractured neighborhoods with impoverished households, an uneducated, unskilled workforce, too few jobs, a shrinking tax base, budgetary shortfalls, and inadequate public schools. Looking to the city's future, Lewis D. Solomon focuses on pathways to revitalizing Detroit, while offering a caut...

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  • CYCLES OF POVERTY AND CRIME IN AMERICA'S INNER CITIES
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    CYCLES OF POVERTY AND CRIME IN AMERICA'S INNER CITIES
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    Despite the best hopes of the past half century, black urban pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain concentrations of the uneducated, unemployed, underemployed, and unemployable. Many fail to stay in school and others choose lives of drugs, violence, and crime. Most do not marry, leading to single-parent households and children without a father figure. The cycl...

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  • THE QUEST FOR HUMAN LONGEVITY
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    THE QUEST FOR HUMAN LONGEVITY
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    "Many scientists today are working to retard the aging process in humans so as to increase both life expectancy and the quality of life. Over the past decade impressive results have been achieved in targeting the mechanisms and pathways of aging. In The Quest for Human Longevity, Lewis D. Solomon considers these scientific studies by exploring the principal biomedical anti-agin...

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  • EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXECUTIVES
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    EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXECUTIVES
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    "[In Evangelical Christian Executives,] Dr. Solomon has captured the essence of an effective and refreshingly different approach to business. In telling the compelling stories of six Christian CEOs, he shows us an alternative to an ethic of greed that has so tarnished corporate America." --John D. Beckett, CEO and Chairman of R.W. Beckett Corp. Events of recent years have encou...

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  • THE PRIVATIZATION OF SPACE EXPLORATION
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    THE PRIVATIZATION OF SPACE EXPLORATION
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy's visionary statement captured the mood of the day: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." The Apollo mission's success in July 1969 made almost anything seem possible, but the Cold War made space flight th...

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  • BUILDING AN OPPORTUNITY SOCIETY
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    BUILDING AN OPPORTUNITY SOCIETY
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    Twenty-first-century US policymakers face a great challenge: How can federal government help more people achieve the American dream? Specifically, how can we provide greater opportunities for less-prosperous individuals, enabling them to succeed through hard work, on their merits, and take increased responsibility for their lives? Lewis D. Solomon sees this as the challenge of ...

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  • TECH BILLIONAIRES
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    TECH BILLIONAIRES
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century a new wave of thinking has emerged from tech billionaires that may shape the way private capital gets invested to tackle social problems. These entrepreneurs broke the business mold in the 1980s and 1990s and are now trying to break the traditional pattern of philanthropy pioneered by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr. s...

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  • SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
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    SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    For nearly forty years, using recombinant DNA tools, researchers, and then businesses, have genetically engineered organisms by transferring naturally occurring genes from one organism into another. Doing so modifies the genetic code of living cells, imparting new traits and achieving desired results; this is done in the production of proteins, pharmaceuticals, and seeds. Synth...

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  • FINANCIAL SECURITY AND PERSONAL WEALTH
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    FINANCIAL SECURITY AND PERSONAL WEALTH
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States. Other developed nations with aging populations face similar problems. There will be fewer workers relative to retirees in coming decades and the elderly are also expected to live longer. The impact of these demographic changes in the United States is likely to be chall...

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  • FINANCIAL SECURITY AND PERSONAL WEALTH
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    FINANCIAL SECURITY AND PERSONAL WEALTH
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States. Other developed nations with aging populations face similar problems. There will be fewer workers relative to retirees in coming decades and the elderly are also expected to live longer. The impact of these demographic changes in the United States is likely to be chall...

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  • AMERICA'S WATER AND WASTEWATER CRISIS
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    AMERICA'S WATER AND WASTEWATER CRISIS
    LEWIS D. SOLOMON
    This book examines the role of private firms in the American water and wastewater industry. As more water infrastructure shifts from public- to private-sector control, vendors, consultants, and facilities are taking on more importance. Lewis D. Solomon presents an historical overview of water supply and treatment needs and the role of the government, including how water policy ...

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