Niagara Falling reveals what happens to a small community when it is forced into the global economy. This case study of the effects of "globalization in reverse," when foreign-based companies operate in a community in the United States, takes the reader to Niagara, Wisconsin, where the primary employer is the local paper mill, currently owned by a new, foreign company. Miller examines whether and how local government, civic engagement, education, and the environment are affected by this reverse globalization. Has Niagara changed because its main employer is now a huge, multinational company based in Finland? Or are many of the changes it has experienced simply the result of the natural progression of a small town? Niagara Falling is an accessible work for sociology scholars and students alike.

A group of technical people go to Antarctica where they locate a huge iceberg and then endeavor to tow it to Los Angeles where it will provide fresh water to augment that city's dwindling water supply. Their efforts are hampered by one of their own who actually represents an organization trying to sell to Los Angeles fresh water generated by an expensive process wherein fresh water is obtained from sea water. During their circuitous trip north they discover an ancient body in an elaborate laboratory deep in the bowels of the iceberg.