The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …

The Harvard Jerusalem Studio : urban designs for the Holy City

These studies, conducted in 1980-1984 by teams of faculty, students, consultants, and advisors from the Jerusalem planning community and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, provide a unique sense of Jerusalem's natural and built environment, its livability, cultural diversity, and political and religious tensions.Modern Jerusalem is one of the most fascinating laboratories for urban developm…

Heredity produced : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500…

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations. Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individu…

The evolving role of China in the global economy

Title from title screen.Experts analyze four factors in China's economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investments, monetary policy, and foreign direct investments. China is now the world's second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world's largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a "socialist-market economy," su…

Good and real :demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics

"A Bradford book."Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Governing molecules :the discursive politics of genetic engineering in Europe…

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The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts

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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War

Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Empirical model discovery and theory evaluation :automatic selection methods …

"Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures Series."A synthesis of the authors' groundbreaking econometric research on automatic model selection, which uses powerful computational algorithms and theory evaluation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

There are no facts :attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the …

"There Are No Facts examines the uncommon ground we share in a post-truth world. It unpacks how attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, it shows how these spatial architectures of attention and datamining are in turn situated withi…