Product Description: "This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Contemporary Science The tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be written...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Twenty-five years ago, Gerald Holton's Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought introduced a wide audience to his ideas. Holton argued that from ancient times to the modern period, an astonishing feature of innovative scientific work was its ability to hold, simultaneously, deep and opposite commitments of the most fundamental sort...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contains thirteen perceptive essays by keen observers which explore the past, present and possible future of a place that is full of contradictions yet unified in its exceptionalism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In 1965, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences initiated the Commission on the Year 2000, the forerunner of what became the field of futurism. The Commission did not believe that one could "predict" the future, but sought instead to identify structural changes in society that would have long-term social impacts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.

Product Description: Since 1989, it has been possible to review what has been published both at home and abroad on the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and, no less importantly, on the Soviet Union itself, from a new perspective. Few have chosen to engage in this Herculean task, whether out of a residual civility in not wishing to mock certain aging scholars whose research would appear curiously dated, or out of a sense of fatigue with the whole subject of casting aspersions on mistaken views...read more

Examines the conditions of the peacetime world situation to determine whether any good can come out of the Gulf War, and whether force can ever be used as a tool for achieving peace

Product Description: At a time of tremendous flux throughout Europe, this book provides solid analyses of the events and trends that are rapidly reshaping the region. Originally published as an edition of "Daedalus", this updated volume brings together some leading scholars to examine such issues as the major paradigmatic shifts occurring in Eastern Europe, the long-term role of Gorbachev, and the effects of glasnost and perestroika on the future of Europe...read more

Product Description: AIDS will be with us for the rest of our lives. Living with AIDS confronts this long-term challenge, through a series of powerful and thought-provoking essays that seek a more realistic public-health and public-policy environment for dealing with the AIDS epidemic...read more

Product Description: In this broad and provocative collection of original essays on artificial intelligence today, eighteen distinguished scholars set out to explain why and how certain discoveries about the human brain have or have not been used by the AI community, and whether the AI endeavor has increased out, understanding of human cognition...read more

Product Description: Originally published as the Fall 1986 issue of Daedalus, this volume offers dialogues, interviews, and observations on the vitality of this leading art form. Contributors include Pierre Boulez, John Cox, Matthew Epstein, George Harewood, Erich Leinsdorf, Harvey Lichtenstein, Terence McEwen, Gian Carlo Menotti, Jonathan Miller, Harold Prince, Beverly Sills, Elizabeth Soderstrom-Olow, Lies Askonas-Shepherd, Raffaello de Banfield, Fedora Barbieri, Humphrey Burton, Olivier Chevrillon, Bruce Crawford, Peter Diamand, August Everding, Hughes Gall, Ann Getty, Italo Gomez, Grey Gowrie, Ronald Grierson, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Claus Moser, Harold Rosenthal, Julius Rudel, Maryvonne de Saint Puulgent, Aulis Sallinen, Patrick Smith, John Tooley, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, George Weidenfeld, Huw Wheldon, and Hector Berlioz...read more

Product Description: Originally published as the Summer 1986 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, this volume brings together a distinguished collection of thinkers to consider the complex relation and divergence between art and science...read more

Product Description: The social programs of the five Nordic countries have helped transform ideals of equality and social justice into reality. Yet despite this success, the rest of the world has been slow to apply these programs to their own societies...read more

Essays discuss the nature of the modern state and its relationship to society, justice, defense, terrorism, war and world affairs