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by Bruce T. Draine
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
This is a comprehensive and richly illustrated textbook on the astrophysics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium--the gas and dust, as well as the electromagnetic radiation, cosmic rays, and magnetic and gravitational fields, present between the stars in a galaxy and also between galaxies...
The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. Although counterintuitive, Everett's revolutionary formulation of quantum mechanics offers the most direct solution...
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Complete Digital Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
For the first time, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung is now available in a complete digital edition that is full-text searchable. The Complete Digital Edition includes Vols. 1–18 and Vol. 19, the General Bibliography of C. G. Jung's Writings. (Vol. 20, the General Index to the Collected Works,...
Wisdom's Workshop
The Rise of the Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to...
Pathways to Reform
Credits and Conflict at The City University of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A personal account of the implementation of a controversial credit transfer program at the nation's third-largest university
Change is notoriously difficult in any large organization. Institutions of higher education are no exception. From 2010 to 2013, Alexandra Logue, then chief academic...
by Rudy Slingerland, Lee Kump
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Mathematical Modeling of Earth's Dynamical Systems gives earth scientists the essential skills for translating chemical and physical systems into mathematical and computational models that provide enhanced insight into Earth's processes. Using a step-by-step method, the book identifies the important...
by Satyan L. Devadoss, Joseph O'Rourke
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Discrete geometry is a relatively new development in pure mathematics, while computational geometry is an emerging area in applications-driven computer science. Their intermingling has yielded exciting advances in recent years, yet what has been lacking until now is an undergraduate textbook that...
An Academic Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American university
Hanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating to New Haven, where her father was a...
Creating the Market University
How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world...
Implausible Dream
The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher education
Universities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be “world-class,” institutions of higher education are shifting away from their core missions...
by Mehran Mesbahi, Magnus Egerstedt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This accessible book provides an introduction to the analysis and design of dynamic multiagent networks. Such networks are of great interest in a wide range of areas in science and engineering, including: mobile sensor networks, distributed robotics such as formation flying and swarming, quantum networks,...
Winnebagos on Wednesdays
How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America’s colleges and universities
In 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal...
Worldly Philosopher
The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote...
Nietzsche
Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical. Kaufmann rehabilitated...