The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live a life that really matters-even as a finite material being living in a material world.
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.
A new account of how we perceive the 3D shapes of objects and how to design machines that can see shapes the way we do.
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but…