This text is a comprehensive advanced level textbook designed for courses in the psychology of attitudes and related studies in attitude measurement and social cognition. Written by two eminent scholars in the field, the book has comprehensive coverage of classic and modern research.
This general American history text emphasises political history. Written by six eminent historians (each contributor writes about a period in which he is a specialist), this text takes a traditional approach to the study of history.
Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922) was an eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law. He is considered by many as one of the 'founding fathers' of modern sociology of law. This collection of essays is aimed at 'reconsidering' Eugen Ehrlich by discussing both the historical and theoretical context of his work.
Thomas S. Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, a work which sold more than a million copies, changed the way we think about the evolution of ideas--especially scientific ideas--and raised doubts about the long-term survival of even our most cherished scientific concepts. In The Death of Truth, Keay Davidson paints a vivid picture of Kuhn's troubled career and personal life, as well as a vibrant account of the intellectual and cultural climate in which Kuhn worked. Drawing on direct access to family members and colleagues as well as his subject's private papers, Davidson sheds light on Kuhn's personal life, including the brilliant family eccentrics who influenced his work; his troubled emotional and family life; his oft-combative relations with colleagues and critics; and his maddeningly erratic comments on the shocking implications of his theories.The book also provides an engaging picture of the intellectual and cultural world in which Kuhn's ideas evolved, including the nasty battles over logical positivism and the widespread disillusionment with science during an era of high-tech war, nuclear weapons, environmental ruin, and ruthless industrial globalization. Along the way, Davidson ranges from the battlefields of World War II to the academic squabbles of Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT, and offers fascinating glimpses of eminent thinkers such as Kuhn's famous foe Karl Popper, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, positivist crusader A.J. Ayer, the flamboyant "anarchist" Paul K. Feyerabend, and many others. The Death of Truth is the first full-length portrait of a truly revolutionary thinker--a strange, troubled man who abandoned a brilliant career to challenge science's most dogmatic assumptions.
Written in 1877 by an eminent physicist, this primer on physics provides a brief introduction to Newtonian mechanics for students and educated lay readers. Complete with many illustrations to clarify the concepts discussed in the text, it is suitable for history of science courses.
Watch out, there's a Hungarian about! As this lighthearted look at the phenomenon of famous Hungarians shows this is a small nation that has always punched well above its weight, playing a major role in innumerable fields, including; nuclear physics (Teller and Szilard), modern music (Bartok and Kurtag, architecture (Erno Goldfinger) dance education (Rudolf Laban), globalisation theory (Imre Lakatos) and retail cosmetics (Estee Lauder). As Hungary emerges from the rusty shadows of the Iron Curtain into the New Europe here's a chance to get acquainted with the new guys on the block. Ray Keenoy focuses on the relevance of fifty great figures of science, thought, culture and action for today, bringing out the enormous contribution of this small nation to the modern world -- for better (the discovery of Vitamin C) or worse (the H-bomb).
An eminent historian of Russia, Harvard professor, and adviser to the Reagan White House looks back on his own life and on the tumultuous twentieth century.
In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people, and those of neighbouring Harris, which he shortly added to his estate.
A richly illustrated volume presenting the biographies of twenty-four eminent statesmen of Hellas, Thrace and Macedonia, whose rule extended from the time of the famous Trojan War in the 13th century BC to the Roman conquest of the Balkans in 106 AD. Heirs to the rich political and cultural tradition of the East, the rulers of the ancient European South-East became the founders of states that have survived through the centuries to the present time. Ambitious politicians, talented commanders, leaders with dramatic personal destinies, they exemplified their epoch but also transcended it to become emblematic figures in the development of the Western civilisation.
From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this well-documented and illustrated biography examines the life and time of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements.
A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England.
Language is key to understanding culture, and culture is an essential part of studying language. This reader focuses on the interplay between Language and Intercultural Communication. Reflecting the international nature of the field, this reader covers a wide range of language and cultural contexts: Arabic, Chinese, English (British, American, Australian and South African), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Samoan and Spanish. Divided into six parts, it covers: Culture, language and thought; Cultural approaches to discourse and pragmatics; Communication patterns across cultures; Teaching and learning cultural variations of language use; Interculturality and Intercultural Communication in professional contexts. With contributions written by eminent authorities in the field as well as cutting-edge materials representing current developments, the book explores the breadth and depth of the subject as well as providing an essential overview for both students and researchers. Each part begins with a clear and comprehensive introduction, and is enhanced by discussion questions, study activities and further reading sections.Alongside a comprehensive Resource List, detailing important reference books, journals, organisations and websites and an annotated Glossary of key terms, the final section offers advice on how to carry out research in Language and Intercultural Communication.
In De trotse toren schildert Barbara Tuchman als op een panoramisch canvas de grootsheid én de schaduwzijden van de West-Europese en Anglo-Amerikaanse cultuur, die in de jaren 1890-1914 hun hoogtepunt bereikten, voor de geaccumuleerde spanningen in de Eerste Wereldoorlog tot ontlading kwamen. De periode die veelal aangeduid wordt als de belle époque gaf technologische vooruitgang en materiële voorspoed te zien, maar het was ook een rusteloze tijd van grote culturele veranderingen, sociale mobiliteit en toenemende politieke spanningen, die bijvoorbeeld aan de oppervlakte kwamen in de Dreyfusaffaire.Boeiend en inzichtelijk legt Tuchman de interne tegenstellingen van de westerse samenleving bloot door middel van portretten van onder meer de Britse aristocratie, de anarchisten en het Duitse cultuurklimaat, en invloedrijke personen als keizer Wilhelm II, de staatsman Theodore Roosevelt, de componist Richard Strauss en de auteur Émile Zola.BARBARA TUCHMAN (1912-1989) studeerde geschiedenis aan de universiteit van Radcliffe en schreef, na een journalistieke carrière, een aantal inmiddels klassieke boeken over historische onderwerpen. Bij De Arbeiderspers verschenen tevens De waanzinnige veertiende eeuw en De kanonnen van augustus.*Tuchman [was] een eminent historicus die in haar boeken een zeldzame combinatie van onberispelijke geleerdheid en literaire finesse aan den dag legde. [...] Wie De trotse toren leest doet dat onherroepelijk met plezier en bewondering. – THE NEW YORK TIMES
Michael Smith burst into public view in 1993 as the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of site-directed mutagenesis, the process by which genes can be changed under laboratory conditions for medical and research purposes. Smith became a local hero not only because of the honour and prestige represented by the award but also because he donated his time, energy, and prize money to charitable causes. His down-to-earth modesty, wit, and ready acknowledgement of support from scientific colleagues and the people of British Columbia and Canada won him admirers inside the academy and out. But Smith's award came only after a long and devoted career. The book examines how the son of a poor English market gardener took advantage of school reforms to learn the skills necessary for a career in science. The biography notes his fortuitous arrival in Vancouver and the circumstances that led him to make the city his life-long home. As a professor at the University of British Columbia, Smith dedicated his considerable talent and energy to research in biochemistry and molecular biology, and later launched the university's internationally regarded Biotechnology Laboratory.After his 1993 Nobel Prize, Smith became a powerful advocate of science who influenced national policy and helped to establish Canada's pre-eminent Genome Sequencing Centre. Damer and Astell present not only the career and science of a great Canadian scientist, but also the politics and personalities of university life.
Excision of errors and confusion about quantum mechanics -- and stimulation of thoughtful and adventurous readers are pre-eminent rationales of this entire work; these requiring definitions and analysis of underlying concepts of quantum mechanics, of quantum field theory -- why probability is given by the absolute square, what wavefunctions are and are not and why, and many others -- and also examination of some from the philosophy of science. People's beliefs about quantum mechanics are often just the reverse of what fundamental principles give, seen most spectacularly with the EPR 'paradox'. The puzzles, the mystical, the bizarre, come merely from negligence, from blunders, including the outlandish belief that the universe must be explained using classical physics. Careless, unthinking physicists, and gullible journalists who naively accept their confusion as statements about nature, cause so much misunderstanding and nonsense about physics.Among the many examples considered are the non-existence in quantum mechanics of waves and particles, so of wave-particle duality; the reason that general relativity must be the quantum theory of gravity; the mystery of the cosmological constant: why people believe in it though it would be obvious to a high school student that there cannot be any, it must be zero; the absurdity (and wild incorrectness) of much of the discussion about the vacuum; the required locality of quantum mechanics and the impossibility of action-at-a-distance; and many others. Many blunders, not only about physics, come from abuse of language, the use of words, phrases, sentences without content, with con- notation but no denotation, of names --- quantum mechanics, particles, waves, and so on -- that deceive and misrepresent, of questions that ask nothing. It is not only in physics that answers to questions without meaning smother and hide.
From Homer to Machiavelli, this new anthology features all of the major ancient and medieval political theory. In the spirit of those traditions of classical and medieval thought it elucidates, Readings in Classical Political Thought represents not only those thinkers traditionally recognised as philosophers, but poets, legislators, sophists, dramatists, historians, statesmen and theologians as well. Pre-eminent translations and the editor's own thoughtful Introductions further distinguish this unique anthology.
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their natural habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
This important collection of essays assesses the harvest of the post-colonial project. It spans an impressive range, from stimulating sceptical analysis by distinguished novelists Nayantara Sahgal and Dan Jacobson on the forces that underlie much post-colonial literature and Yasmine Gooneratne on issues of gender, to original essays by eminent critics. The scholarly essays examine crucial general topics: Ken Goodwin on writing as a reflection of reactions to the colonial encounter; Zohreh T. Sullivan and Satendra Nandan on the discourse and experience of migrancy; Gerhard Stilz on transformations of tropical landscape; Bruce Bennett on regionalism in an Australian context and Bernth Lindfors on the actual teaching situation. This book with its international team of contributors offers the kind of periodical assessment which post-colonial literature needs, and is accessible as well as valuable to the student, general reader and scholar alike.
Written by eminent researchers and authors of numerous publications in the buckling structures field. Deals with experimental investigation in the industry. Covers the conventional and more unconventional methods for testing for a wide variety of structures.
Een belangwekkende vondst in de nalatenschap van Elias Canetti, het manuscript met het vervolg op zijn befaamde trilogie, ziet in dit Privé-domeindeel voor het eerst het licht. Het bevat zijn herinneringen aan zijn bewogen jaren in Engeland tijdens en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Na voltooiing van zijn grote roman Het martyrium werkte Canetti tijdens zijn Engelse emigratiejaren aan Massa en macht, waarvan sporen terug zijn te vinden in deze herinneringen. Superieur, trefzeker en hier en daar een tikje kwaadaardig portretteert Canetti de mensen die zijn pad kruisen: bekende schrijvers en filosofen als Bertrand Russell, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas en Herbert Read, de conservatieve politicus Enoch Powell en de mede-emigrant Oskar Kokoschka. Canetti's fascinatie voor excentriekelingen levert fonkelende proza-stukken op over verarmde adellijken en echte arme emigranten, ijdele dichters, een wereldwijze straatveger en, een stuk proza van extreme openhartigheid, over zijn affaire met de later beroemde schrijfster Iris Murdoch. Met veel elan beschrijft Canetti de vele party' s waarop hij verkeert, ' nietaanrakingsfeesten' zoals hij ze noemt, waarin hij het patroon van de Engelse sociale omgang aantreft.Canetti betoont zich ook in deze onvoltooid gebleven herinneringen, net als in de driedelige autobiografie De behouden tong, Fakkel in het oor en Het ogenspel, een eminent en stijlvast observator en portretist.
Written by two eminent leaders in counselling psychology, this text covers the history of the field, as well as its major concepts, theories, interventions and research. The book discusses ethics, training, careers and practice in counselling psychology, embracing the scientist-practitioner model.
Features essays ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short story. This title presents the views and opinions of this eminent writer.
Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework.
The former editor of Russia's eminent Mir publishing house provides reminiscences of a former employee who has risen to become Boris Yeltsin's chief political rival. This work is both a biography of a powerful politician and an analysis of Russia's current social and moral breakdown.
Hesketh challenges accepted notions of a single scientific approach to history. Instead, he draws on a variety of sources - monographs, lectures, correspondence - from eminent Victorian historians to uncover numerous competing discourses.
This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five Irish playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of twenty-five eminent scholars from Ireland, the USA, Britain and Germany. It is the perfect companion for students of Irish literature and drama.
In 1979 publiceerde Sonia Blumenstein haar oorlogsherinneringen, 'Het gebroken uur'. Het boek kreeg lovende pers, werd aanbevolen lectuur in het middelbaar onderwijs en kreeg een herdruk in 1981. Alwin Keyman maakte naar 'Het gebroken uur' een toneelstuk dat in Anterpen in Theater Leguit en in De Singel speelde.Het gebroken uur geraakte nadien toch in de vergetelheid. Het label van jeugdliteratuur was weinig hoog gegrepen voor deze historisch interessante memoires. Bovendien wist men in die tijd nauwelijks iets over de Jodenvervolgingen in Antwerpen in 1940-1944, het verhaal stond dus geïsoleerd.De voorbije jaren verschenen publicaties die toelaten het verhaal van Sonia Blumenstein beter te plaatsen, en die een goed onderbouwde heruitgave van dit boek mogelijk maken.De editie werd toevertrouwd aan herman Van Goethem, hooglereaar geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. Als jurist en historicus is hij een eminent kenner van de bestuurlijke collaboratie in België tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? This book brings together a distinguished group of legal scholars and political scientists who argue that the Court's power has exceeded its appropriate bounds, and that sound republican principles require greater limits on that power.
Consists of personal narrative accounts of the career journeys of some of the world's most eminent social psychologists. This book provides an insight into the development of outstanding academic careers. It is suitable for researchers and beginning students alike, in the fields of social psychology and history of psychology.
The only textbook to adopt a 'how to' approach with exercises and cases, it covers all the major theoretical approaches to the use of corpus data and affords students and researchers alike readings from eminent figures in the discipline.
Argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers and frequent references to popular culture, this title examines the causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world.
Contains a selection of the scientific presentations made at the conference by eminent experts in the field. In this title, articles provide accounts of many of the frontier areas of the field and collectively reveal the ubiquity and richness of nonlinear behavior in the plasmas medium.
The "vehicles" described in this light-hearted yet wonderfully skillful exercise in fictional science are the inventions of one of the world's eminent brain researchers.
This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering figure who produced outstanding poetry, straddling mysticism, romances and epics. He has left his mark on the whole Persian-speaking world and countless younger poets in the area stretching from the Ottoman to the Mughal worlds (present-day Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India) have found him an inspiration and have tried to emulate him. His work has influenced such other immense poets as Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi. His five masnavis (long poems) address a variety of topics and disciplines and have all enjoyed enormous fame, as the countless surviving manuscripts of his work indicate.His heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, Iskandar count amongst the stars of the Persian literary firmament and have become household names all over the Islamic world. The essays in the present volume constitute a significant development in the field of Nizami-studies, and on a more general level, of classical Persian literature. They focus on topics such as mysticism, art history, comparative literature, science, and philosophy. they show how classical Greek knowledge mingles in a unique manner with the Persian past and the Islamic culture in Nizami's world. They reflect a high degree of engagement with the existing scholarship in the field, they revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work and are indispensible both for specialists in the field and for anyone interested in the movement of ideas in the Medieval world.
Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition, and the country's writers have been pre-eminent in grappling with the dilemmas, the cultural jarring and the identity problems. This work opens up the diversity and richness of contemporary Saudi Arabian literature. It places women's voices in the centre of the Saudi literary canon.
