Robert Bates Graber: 2 books
Valuing Useless Knowledge
An Anthropological Inquiry into the Meaning of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With higher education coming under increasing scrutiny in today's economic climate, is a liberal-arts education still a valuable investment? Robert Bates Graber explores the historical, philosophical, and sociological origins and nature of liberal education, and draws on anthropology to show why we do,...
Plunging to Leviathan?
Exploring the World's Political Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future? The surprising wealth of research critiqued in this...