Daniel Gardner: 18 books
The Science of Fear
How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
“An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly” (The Guardian) from the New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future Babble
From terror attacks to collapsing economies, from painkiller epidemics to mass gun violence and poisonous toys from China, our...
Future Babble
Why Pundits Are Hedgehogs and Foxes Know Best
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
An award-winning journalist uses landmark research to debunk the whole expert prediction industry, and explores the psychology of our obsession with future history.
In 2008, experts predicted gas would hit $20 a gallon; it peaked at $4.10. In 1967, they said the USSR would be the world's fastest-growing...
Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects
Canon, Commentary, and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
The Analects is a compendium of the sayings of Confucius (551–479 b.c.e.), transcribed and passed down by his disciples. How it came to be transformed by Zhu Xi (1130–1200) into one of the most philosophically significant texts in the Confucian tradition is the subject of this book.
Scholarly...
by Daniel K. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
To understand China, it is essential to understand Confucianism. First formulated in the sixth century BCE, the teachings of Confucius would come to dominate Chinese society, politics, economics, and ethics. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel K. Gardner explores the major philosophical ideas...
Good Work
Aligning Skills and Values
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Many of us seek Good Work – work which is excellent, personally meaningful, and ethical. Our challenge is to forge these elements into a rewarding, profitable career. In this spirited dialogue, Daniel Goleman and Howard Gardner give us the tools to do just that. Dr. Gardner’s research, insight,...
Environmental Pollution in China
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled...
Weisheit und Ritual
Die Geschichte des Konfuzianismus
Language: German
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Eine Einführung in die zentralen Lehren des Konfuzianismus und deren Bedeutung für die chinesische Gesellschaft – gestern und heute Der Konfuzianismus hat China über 2000 Jahre lang geprägt und gewinnt gerade in den letzten Jahren wieder zunehmend an Bedeutung. Seinen Kern bildet die Vorstellung,...
by Eric Gardner, Sarah Wider, Susan M. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college...
MindScience
An East-West Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
What is the subtle relationship between mind and body? What can today's scientists learn about this relationship from masters of Buddhist thought? Is it possible that by combining Western and Eastern approaches, we can reach a new understanding of the nature of the mind, the human potential for growth,...
Building the Intentional University
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century.
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground...
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy
Resource Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important contributions to several other fields of political economy and public policy. The range of topics...
by Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, George R. R. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Running from poverty and hopelessness, Ramón Espejo boarded one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the new life he found on the far-off planet of São Paulo was no better than the one he abandoned. Then one night his rage and too much alcohol get the better of him. Deadly...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
Innovations in Higher Education
Igniting the Spark for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad...
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