Books by Peter Downs

Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade.

A critical assessment of current research on river channel management, this title explores modern management techniques that consider the background of the entire drainage basin, use channel restoration where appropriate and are designed to be sustainable.