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Duhl draws on the experience of social entrepreneurs worldwide to show how to map problems and develop the strategy and tactics by which new ways of thinking and action emerge.

Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within a metropolitan area by looking at political reform as well as presenting ideas on functional efficiency, costs and benefits and the effectiveness of the political process. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

This revision includes added coverage of Third World countries and industrialized societies, new material on aging and the sexes. Contains summary interpretations of Durkheim on religion and on suicide, Goffman on rituals of interaction, Marx on alienation and on social classes, Mead on the self, Piaget on moral development, Tocqueville on democracy and Weber on the Protestant ethic.