雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

雅克·当斯（Jacques M. Downs），美国新英格兰大学（缅因州比迪福德）历史学教授。

Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever in today’s fractured America. Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we...(展开全部)

罗伯特·D. 帕特南（Robert D. Putnam），当代西方著名政治学家，现任哈佛大学国际事务研究中心主任，肯尼迪政府学院公共政策马尔林讲座教授。他的主要研究领域是政治学、国际政治和公共政策，发表的著作包括《手拉手：西方七国峰会》、《独自打保龄：美国社会资本的衰减 》、《让民主运转起来》等。

Amazon.com Review Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that c...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Review Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that c...(展开全部)