This practical handbook is designed to give students and inexperienced public servants a fundamental understanding of the array of highly technical urban services provided by city and country governments.

In the nineteenth century Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of race horses, whiskey, tobaccco - and new counties.

Samuel J. Eldersveld and Mingming Shen, the authors of this important 'two-wave' study, illuminate a unique and richly contoured view of Chinese attitudes about political and economic reform.