Showa - the six-decade period of Emperor Horihito's reign, which began in 1926 and ended with his death in 1989 - accounts for fully half of Japan's modern history. It was a turbulent time of aggressive and catastrophic war, defeat and foreign occupation, domestic transformation and spectacular growth. The end of Showa provided and occasion for ...
This book is the last completed work of one of the most distinguished political theorists and intellectual historians of our time. Focusing on the political ideas and activities of leading French liberals from approximately 1805 into the Second Empire, Professor Kelly presents a distinctive blend of ideological and intellectual history, biography, ...
Living with AIDS confronts this long-term challenge, through a series of powerful and thought-provoking essays that seek a more realistic public-health and public-policy environment for dealing with the AIDS epidemic.
The drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function has led to grave doubts about how these institutions will operate in the future. In "The Research University In A Time Of Discontent", distinguished scholars address this concern, drawing examples and making recommendations based ...
In 1965, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated the Commission on the Year 2000, the forerunner of what became the field of futurism. The Commission did not believe that one could "predict" the future, but sought instead to identify structural changes in society that would have long-term social impacts. And since the Commission ...
In this broad and provocative collection of original essays on artificial intelligence today, eighteen distinguished scholars set out to explain why and how certain discoveries about the human brain have or have not been used by the AI community, and whether the AI endeavor has increased out, understanding of human cognition.
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.
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.
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.
As Gerald Holton argued in "Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought", one incredible feature of innovative scientific work is its ability to simultaneously hold deep and opposite commitments. This volume explores both individually and collectively, the dual roots of the sciences and the humanities.
The drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function has led to grave doubts about how these institutions will operate in the future. In this study scholars address the issue, drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experience as academic administrators and ...
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