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Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  140  No  2  1996

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 140 No 2 1996 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  140  No  4  1996

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 140 No 4 1996 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  140  No  3  1996

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 140 No 3 1996 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  140  No  1  1996

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 140 No 1 1996 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  96  no  2

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 96 no 2 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  101  no  2  1957

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 101 no 2 1957 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race  Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture

Download or read book Race Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture written by R. Purcell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' – that is, race as a biological and sociological concept – played within the global and cultural Cold War.

Book Lipman Bers  a Life in Mathematics

Download or read book Lipman Bers a Life in Mathematics written by Linda Keen and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is part biography and part collection of mathematical essays that gives the reader a perspective on the evolution of an interesting mathematical life. It is all about Lipman Bers, a giant in the mathematical world who lived in turbulent and exciting times. It captures the essence of his mathematics, a development and transition from applied mathematics to complex analysis--quasiconformal mappings and moduli of Riemann surfaces--and the essence of his personality, a progression from a young revolutionary refugee to an elder statesman in the world of mathematics and a fighter for global human rights and the end of political torture. The book contains autobiographical material and short reprints of his work. The main content is in the exposition of his research contributions, sometimes with novel points of view, by students, grand-students, and colleagues. The research described was fundamental to the growth of a central part of 20th century mathematics that, now in the 21st century, is in a healthy state with much current interest and activity. The addition of personal recollections, professional tributes, and photographs yields a picture of a man, his personal and professional family, and his time.

Book Who Shall Live  Health  Economics And Social Choice  2nd Expanded Edition

Download or read book Who Shall Live Health Economics And Social Choice 2nd Expanded Edition written by Victor R Fuchs and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations and memorable examples of the importance of the non-medical determinants of health, the dominant role of physicians in health care expenditures, the necessity of choices about health at the individual and societal levels, and many other compelling themes.Now, in a new introduction of some 8,000 words including new tables and figures, Fuchs, often called the “Dean of health economists”, concisely summarizes the major changes of the past 37 years in health, medical care, and health policy. He focuses primarily on the United States but includes remarks about health policy in other countries, and addresses the question of whether national health care systems are becoming more alike. In addition to reviewing changes, the introduction explains why health expenditures grow so rapidly, why health spending in the United States is so much greater than in other countries, and what physicians need in order to practice cost-effective medicine.This second expanded edition also includes recent papers by Fuchs on the economics of aging, the socio-economic correlates of health, the future of health economics, and his policy recommendations for the United States to secure universal coverage, control of costs, and improvement in the quality of care. As was true of the first expanded edition (1998), this book will be welcomed by current students and life-long learners in economics, other social and behavioral sciences, medicine, public health, law, business, public policy, and other fields who want to understand the relation between health, economics, and social choice.

Book Biographical Memoirs

Download or read book Biographical Memoirs written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographic Memoirs: Volume 80 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.

Book Silicon Materials Science and Technology

Download or read book Silicon Materials Science and Technology written by and published by The Electrochemical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Silicon Materials Science and Technology

Download or read book Silicon Materials Science and Technology written by Howard R. Huff and published by The Electrochemical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings  American Philosophical Society  vol  119  No  2  1975

Download or read book Proceedings American Philosophical Society vol 119 No 2 1975 written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Isolationism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles A. Kupchan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 0199393257
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Isolationism written by Charles A. Kupchan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to tell the full story of American isolationism, from the founding era through the Trump presidency. In his Farewell Address of 1796, President George Washington admonished the young nation "to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends in American history. From the founding era until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States shunned strategic commitments abroad, making only brief detours during the Spanish-American War and World War I. Amid World War II and the Cold War, Americans abandoned isolationism; they tried to run the world rather than run away from it. But isolationism is making a comeback as Americans tire of foreign entanglement. In this definitive and magisterial analysis-the first book to tell the fascinating story of isolationism across the arc of American history-Charles Kupchan explores the enduring connection between the isolationist impulse and the American experience. He also refurbishes isolationism's reputation, arguing that it constituted dangerous delusion during the 1930s, but afforded the nation clear strategic advantages during its ascent. Kupchan traces isolationism's staying power to the ideology of American exceptionalism. Strategic detachment from the outside world was to protect the nation's unique experiment in liberty, which America would then share with others through the power of example. Since 1941, the United States has taken a much more interventionist approach to changing the world. But it has overreached, prompting Americans to rediscover the allure of nonentanglement and an America First foreign policy. The United States is hardly destined to return to isolationism, yet a strategic pullback is inevitable. Americans now need to find the middle ground between doing too much and doing too little.

Book Unsettled States

Download or read book Unsettled States written by Dana Luciano and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.

Book Quest For A Unified Theory

Download or read book Quest For A Unified Theory written by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Volume 13 in the 13-volume set titled World Futures General Evolution Studies with a common focus of the emerging field of general evolutionary theory. This volume will expand across disciplines where scholars from new fields will contribute books that propose general evolution theory in novel contexts. The essays are structured with five topics: Approaches to Unification; Concepts of Information; Self-Organizing Systems; Life and Consciousness; Society and Technology.

Book Reconstructing the Temple

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew R. Davis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-01
  • ISBN : 0190868988
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Reconstructing the Temple written by Andrew R. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines temple renovation as a rhetorical topic within royal literature of the ancient Near East. Unlike newly founded temples, which were celebrated for their novelty, temple renovations were oriented toward the past. Kings took the opportunity to rehearse a selective history of the temple, evoking certain past traditions and omitting others. In this way, temple renovations were a kind of historiography. Andrew R. Davis demonstrates a pattern in the rhetoric of temple renovation texts: that kings in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Syria and Persia used temple renovation to correct, or at least distance themselves from, some turmoil of recent history and to associate their reigns with an earlier and more illustrious past. Davis draws on the royal literature of the seventh and sixth centuries BCE for main evidence of this rhetoric. Furthermore, he argues for reading the story of Jeroboam I's placement of calves at Dan and Bethel (1 Kgs 12:25-33) as an eighth-century BCE account of temple renovation with a similar rhetoric. Concluding with further examples in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Reconstructing the Temple demonstrates that the rhetoric of temple renovation was a distinct and longstanding topic in the ancient Near East.