Book Reviews : Human Jurisprudence: Public Law as Political Science. By GLENDON SCHUBERT (Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1975. Pp. 347. $15.00.)

to adapt can probably not be argued to be superior to that of many viruses and insects.&dquo; Again: &dquo;... constant expansion is inherent in man’s energy-using role within the thermodynamic system.&dquo; Happily for readers tired of the abstractions, but unhappily for the human race, the book ends with a look at the physical really physical energy crisis: the consumption of fossil fuels, the heating up of the earth’s atmosphere, the need to get to a steady-state econcmy. Adams sketches the solutions proposed by others and says they all break down into invocations of will, education or religion, which are &dquo;errors&dquo; or &dquo;magic,&dquo; and will not solve the problem. It is barely possible that we could go back to agrarian or nomadic existence, but, in any case, there is nowhere to go but down, as his final diagram symbolizes. Political scientists will be interested to note that while there is extended discussion of information-processing, there is no discussion at all in the book of speech, language, or human communication, those elements without which politics does not come into existence. No wonder Adams despairingly believes there is nowhere to go but down.