Books by Stephen R. Graubard

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India.

Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion of 'positive ecology'. Initially gleaned from the orientation of 'positive psychology', this argues that environmental science has been all too focused on analysing negative 'pathologies' and forgetting to provide more positive analysis and activism for sustainability. Bringing together a wide range of 'positive ecology' orientated case studies for the first time, the book discusses the wider contexts of how humanity is dependent on a functioning, biodiverse ecosphere of which we are only one part. It provides an original and previously undervalued approach to sustainability, and suggests that work towards sustainability is not only a necessity for our children's future, but necessary, sensible and meaningful in the present.

This book presents pertinent questions regarding the current state of the European world as it has evolved since 1989. It provides greater sympathy for the complexity of societies, and argues for greater balance of those that are small, and that do not cast a long shadow in the world today.

There is much change underway in American higher education

An examination of the American liberal arts college as an institution, from its role in the lives of students, to its value as a form of education. It explores the threats they face as well as the transformative role, both positive and negative, that IT will play in their future development.

Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind provides the fullest view possible of the development of Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It is essential reading for courses that deal with American foreign relations in the twentieth century.

This analysis and overview of the American academic profession aims to break the code of silence that hangs over it, as well as address some of the criticisms levelled at it. It asks can a society truly understand its universities when it has moved too quickly from admiration to complaint.

Appeared originally in the winter and spring 1971 issues of Ddalus.

This work probes the question as to whether any good can come out of the Gulf War. Citing John Galbraith's "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", the author shows how the Gulf War has illuminated the American political scene (in an unflattering light) as no other recent event has done.