Bruce A Webb

Sediment and Water Quality in River Catchments

Water Quality: Processes and Policy

Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams

Constancy and Change in Architecture

The Culture of Silence: Architecture's Fifth Dimension

Natural History of the Adelaide Region

Texas Places

The Culture of Silence: Architecture's Fifth Dimension (Studies in Architecture and Culture)

German playwright Berthold Brecht once observed that "the Finns are silent in two languages." To those familiar with Finnish society and conversation, Brecht's remark aptly summarizes the difficulty of exchanging pleasantries, let alone ideas, with Finns. Those who have come up against these impenet...

Child Welfare and Child Well-Being: New Perspectives From the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being

The landmark National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) study represents the first effort to gather nationally representative data, based on first-hand reports, about the well-being of children and families who encounter the child welfare system. NSCAW's findings offer an unprecedent...

Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice

The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them. Child Protection is the first book that reports the result...

Ephemeral City: Cite Looks at Houston

Built around characteristic features of modern life such as rapid change, built-in obsolescence, indeterminacy, media orientation, a culture of style, and instant gratification, Houston is an ephemeral city, hard to pin down and understand. Its lack of zoning (Houston is the only major city in Ameri...

Entropy Circuit: A Dystopian Steampunk Fable

What do you do when the very fabric of reality is unravelling around you and strange Extra Dimensional invaders are destroying the world?Dr Ryuichi Watanabe a research scientist from the Miskatonic University with his 8 year old daughter Mauve are the only survivors of an alien attack on New York Ci...

Economic Growth: Unleashing the Potential of Human Flourishing (Values and Capitalism)

For almost 10,000 years of recorded history, most people had to eke out a living in pain and difficulty. But today, the deep poverty that was the global norm for most of human history is almost entirely foreign to citizens of the developed world. What caused this burst of prosperity? What has been i...

As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930

“There’s an inspiring and wacky solemnity in these organizations—high values reinforced through pageantry and performance in an ecumenical social setting—which deep down must also have been a whole lot of fun. Now it’s as if that foundational Other America, that underpinning of the America we know, ...