The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as methods of preventing disease. A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual. Lifestyle refers to the individual's pers[...]

A Naval Postgraduate School professor and former career Special Forces officer looks at why the U.S. military cannot conduct unconventional warfare despite a significant effort to create and maintain such a capability. In his examination of Operation Enduring Freedom, Hy Rothstein maintains that alt[...]

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything fro[...]

Following on from the publication of the first six titles featuring The Library of Congress' internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, the 'Fields of Vision' series continues with images showcasing the work of Arthur Ro[...]

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Politik i den moderna staten är till stor del en fråga om organisation. Den offentliga förvaltningens organisationsform spelar därför en betydelsefull roll för vår förståelse av politik. Detta har särskilt kommit att uppmärksammas inom områden som välfärds- och utbildningspolitik samt [...]

Tillit till medmänniskorna, uppfattningen om andras laglydighet, hederlighet och allmänna hygglighet är avgörande för samhällets sätt att fungera. Bristande tillit leder lätt till att man inte samarbetar för det gemensamma bästa, trots att aktörerna inser att alla förlorar på detta. Mis[...]