Compulsive gambling

He has written widely on gambling, crime, and addiction. He is author of The Chase: Career of the Compulsive Gambler,and editor of Journal of Gambling Studies.He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association work group on disorders of impulse control. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Council on Problem Gambling.     

Soviet jews in the glasnost era

Semyon E. Reznik is a writer, historian, and journalist He is a staff editor-writer for American Illustrated Magazine,a U. S. Information Service publication. He is also a freelance writer for several Russian emigré newspapers and magazines. He has closely monitored the situation of Soviet Jewry and has published articles about the subject in prominent magazines in the United States. Before emigrating to the United States in 1982, he was expelled from both the Soviet Writers’ and the Soviet Journalists Union. He was written widely on politics, literature, history, and science in the Soviet Union.     

The paradoxes of ‘rational’ death

He has written widely on issues of moral theory, medical ethics, and moral theology. He is author of Medical Ethicsand co-editor of Set No Limits.He is currently completing a book titled The Distant Edge of Lifewhich examines Roman Catholic teaching on rational suicide.     

Public pensions and demographic change

He is a former John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University. He has written several books and articles on issues of labor market theory, work time, and social policy. He is author of Motive und Interessen im Arbeitszeitkonflikt: Eine Analyse der Entwicklung von Normalarbeitszeitstandardsand Zeit und Geld in privaten Haushalten: Gelegenheitsstruktur und Bedarf für Eigenarbeit als Determinanten sozialer Ungleichheit.He is also co-editor of Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations.     

Objectivity versus outrage

He wrote a background paper for the Committee on Health Care for Homeless Persons, “The Dynamics of Homelessness.” He has studied both the needs of homeless persons and the development of shelters and services for the homeless; he codirected a training tape for service providers; and he is coauthoring a book for shelter staff. He is author of Organization in a Changing Environment.     

Famine,genocide, and refugees

He has written widely on the subjects of genocide, famine, and refugees. He is co-author (with Frank Chalk) of The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies.     

Health care reform now

He has written articles on war and public opinion, research methodology, and computer simulations of urban and political processes. He is editor of A Handbook of Social Science Methods.     

Declining options/increasing needs

Before that, he served at the National Institute of Education. He has held teaching appointments at the Universities of Illinois and Oregon and at Cornell University, and is now adjunct professor at George Washington University. He has authored fifteen books, including Finding Work: Cross National Perspectives; Program Evaluation and the Management of Government;and he has edited the last four volumes of Policy Studies Review Annual.     

Rethinking regional planning

He is a past visiting scholar at Rutgers’ Center for Urban Policy Research, where he did research for this article. He has written widely on topics of regional and environmental land use.     

Andrew Carnegie’s gospel of wealth

He is president of the Snow Foundation and the Snow Memorial Fund. He has written widely on European history. Currently he is teaching an upper division course on “Philanthropy: Past and Present.”     

Term-limitation express

He is co-author of The American Presidency,and editor of The Politics of Interests.He has written extensively on term limits and rotation in office and related topics and commentaries.     

Roads to safety

He has written and lectured widely on problems of road construction and safety. He is co-editor (with H. V. Hurdle) of Transportation and Traffic Theory: Eighth International Symposium.     

Post-mass culture

He has written widely on media and defense issues. He is author of KAL 007: The Cover-Up—Why the True Story Has Never Been Told,and a forthcoming book on the worldwide Military Command and Control System.     

Choosing mates—the American way

He has published numerous works on family sociology and contemporary Chinese social organization. He is currently involved in a comparative study of mate choice and marital relations in China and the United States. His latest book is Dating, Mating, and Marriage.     

Progressivism and the arts

He has written extensively on the sociology of organizations and of culture and is editor of Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts.He is writing a book on the social organization of the high-culture arts in the United States from 1860 to the present.     

Educating for safety

He has lectured widely on traffic safety. Among his books are The of Elderly Driversand Rethinking Young Drivers. He is editor of Challenging the Old Order: Towards New Directions in Traffic Safety Theory;all published by Transaction.     

Converting defense facilities

He has written extensively on industrial development, management and innovation as well as on topics related to technical, economic, and political aspects of the arms race. He is author of The Anatomy of Industrial Decline; The Prospects of American Industrial Recovery;and Social Costs in Modern Society.     

Taking adoption seriously

He is the former Assistant Executive Director of both the Child Welfare League of America and the Day Care and Child Development Council of America. He has published widely on the issue of adoption. Among other works, he served as the chief editor of the Adoption Fact Bookand co-authored the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Adoption.     

The multiple meanings of television advertising

Leo Bogart is author of The Age of Television, Strategy in Advertising,and Polls and the Awareness of Public Opinion.He has been president of the Radio and Television Research Council and of the Consumer Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. He is executive vice president of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau.     

1890–1990: Up from Fabian socialism

He is the author of Philosophy and Language:; The Mask of Politics; Philosophers and Pamphleteers;and Jean-Jacques: The Early Life and Work of J.J. Rouseaau.He has translated and edited numerous works and served in a variety of major editorial capacities.