OSI Grantee iDebate Press Releases Two New Publications

In January 2010, iDebate Press is publishing the next two volumes in its Sourcebook on Contemporary Controversies series:

Freedom vs. Security: The Struggle for Balance, edited by Lee-Sean Huang and Nicholas DiBiase, offers diverse viewpoints on the ongoing debate over the balance between personal liberty and community security. The work provides an overview, historical context, and 12 articles on four vital aspects of the question:

• emergency state powers;
• detainment;
• free speech;
• surveillance.

Introductory essays articulate the basic themes of each chapter, while questions frame debatable issues for each essay. With sources ranging from well-known academics to public figures, Freedom and Security is a powerful catalyst for galvanizing debate.

Powering the Future: The Problems and Possibilities of Green Energy, edited by Amy Kathryn Brown, assesses innovative solutions to the global climate and energy crises. It explores fundamental differences between alternative and renewable energy sources, and the role of developing nations in implementing these technologies, among other issues.

Chapters explore:

• the consequences of the world's current unsustainable energy policy
• the potential benefit of a green energy revolution and the kind of philosophy that will be required to make it happen
• the most controversial energy technologies-biofuels, hydroelectric power, "clean coal," and nuclear power-and present arguments for and against the use of each
• the debates over an "all-of-the-above" policy versus a purely "clean" technologies approach, and carbon taxation versus cap-and-trade policy
• international cooperation in green energy implementation

A general introduction and introductory essays to each chapter give the reader the necessary background to put the issue in perspective, while questions frame debatable issues for each essay.