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This unique volume is based on the philosophy that the teaching of
history should emphasize critical thinking and attempt to involve
the student intellectually, rather than simply provide names,
dates, and places to memorize. The book approaches history not as a
cut-and-dried recitation of a collection of facts but as
multifaceted discipline. In examining the various perspectives
historians have provided, the author brings a vitality to the study
of history that students normally do not gain. The text is
comprised of 24 historiographical essays, each of which discusses
the major interpretations of a significant topic in mass
communication history. Students are challenged to evaluate each
approach critically and to develop their own explanations. As a
textbook designed specifically for use in graduate level
communication history courses, it should serve as a stimulating
pedagogical tool.
This unique volume is based on the philosophy that the teaching of
history should emphasize critical thinking and attempt to involve
the student intellectually, rather than simply provide names,
dates, and places to memorize. The book approaches history not as a
cut-and-dried recitation of a collection of facts but as
multifaceted discipline. In examining the various perspectives
historians have provided, the author brings a vitality to the study
of history that students normally do not gain. The text is
comprised of 24 historiographical essays, each of which discusses
the major interpretations of a significant topic in mass
communication history. Students are challenged to evaluate each
approach critically and to develop their own explanations. As a
textbook designed specifically for use in graduate level
communication history courses, it should serve as a stimulating
pedagogical tool.
"Makers of the Media Mind" is a collection of analytical essays
focusing on the most important and original ideas contributed to
the field of mass communication by journalism educators. Divided
into six sections representing the most prominent areas of
specialization in the field, this text serves two significant
purposes: first, it acquaints readers with the lives of preeminent
journalism educators; second, it provides concise discussions and
evaluations of the most compelling ideas those educators have to
offer. The editor of, and contributors to, this text contend that
ideas cannot be appreciated fully without an understanding of the
creators of those same ideas. They hope that this volume's coverage
of "creators" as well as concepts will demonstrate that journalism
education has played a critical role in the making of the "media
mind."
Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens. Right? Not so fast!
Despite the city's reputation for spontaneous evolution, a
deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and
lives. Editor David C. Sloane, a planning professor at the
University of Southern California, has enlisted 30 essayists for a
lively, richly illustrated view of this vibrant metropolis.
Planning Los Angeles launches a new series from APA Planners Press.
Each year Planners Press will bring out a new study on a major
American city. Natives, newcomers, and out-of-towners will get
insiders' views of today's hot-button issues and a sneak peek at
the city to come.
"Makers of the Media Mind" is a collection of analytical essays
focusing on the most important and original ideas contributed to
the field of mass communication by journalism educators. Divided
into six sections representing the most prominent areas of
specialization in the field, this text serves two significant
purposes: first, it acquaints readers with the lives of preeminent
journalism educators; second, it provides concise discussions and
evaluations of the most compelling ideas those educators have to
offer. The editor of, and contributors to, this text contend that
ideas cannot be appreciated fully without an understanding of the
creators of those same ideas. They hope that this volume's coverage
of creators as well as concepts will demonstrate that journalism
education has played a critical role in the making of the media
mind.
Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens. Right? Not so fast!
Despite the city's reputation for spontaneous evolution, a
deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and
lives. Editor David C. Sloane, a planning professor at the
University of Southern California, has enlisted 30 essayists for a
lively, richly illustrated view of this vibrant metropolis.
Planning Los Angeles launches a new series from APA Planners Press.
Each year Planners Press will bring out a new study on a major
American city. Natives, newcomers, and out-of-towners will get
insiders' views of today's hot-button issues and a sneak peek at
the city to come.
Is the universe fine-tuned for complexity, life, or something else?
This comprehensive overview of fine-tuning arguments in physics,
with contributions from leading researchers in their fields, sheds
light on this often used but seldom understood topic. Each chapter
reviews a specific subject in modern physics, such as dark energy,
inflation, or solar system formation, and discusses whether any
parameters in our current theories appear to be fine-tuned and, if
so, to what degree. Connections and differences between these
fine-tuning arguments are made clear, and detailed mathematical
derivations of various fine-tuned parameters are given. This
accessible yet precise introduction to fine-tuning in physics will
aid students and researchers across astrophysics, atomic and
particle physics and cosmology, as well as all those working at the
intersections of physics and philosophy.
For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a
sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and
resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove
everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds
to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that
happens before it happens. That time has passed. Goedel's
undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing's
proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory,
chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that
there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute,
and predict. While some connections between these results have come
to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear.
Are there, for example, real consequences for physics - including
quantum mechanics - of undecidability and non-computability? Are
there implications for our understanding of the relations between
agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world? This book,
based on the winning essays from the annual FQXi competition,
contains ten explorations of Undecidability, Uncomputability, and
Unpredictability. The contributions abound with connections,
implications, and speculations while undertaking rigorous but bold
and open-minded investigation of the meaning of these constraints
for the physical world, and for us as humans.
For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a
sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and
resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove
everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds
to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that
happens before it happens. That time has passed. Goedel's
undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing's
proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory,
chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that
there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute,
and predict. While some connections between these results have come
to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear.
Are there, for example, real consequences for physics - including
quantum mechanics - of undecidability and non-computability? Are
there implications for our understanding of the relations between
agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world? This book,
based on the winning essays from the annual FQXi competition,
contains ten explorations of Undecidability, Uncomputability, and
Unpredictability. The contributions abound with connections,
implications, and speculations while undertaking rigorous but bold
and open-minded investigation of the meaning of these constraints
for the physical world, and for us as humans.
"What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?"
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist
David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With
stories that entertain as much as they inform, Wilson outlines the
basic principles of evolution and shows how, properly understood,
they can illuminate the length and breadth of creation, from the
origin of life to the nature of religion. Now everyone can move
beyond the sterile debates about creationism and intelligent design
to share Darwin's panoramic view of animal and human life,
seamlessly connected to each other.
Evolution, as Wilson explains, is not just about dinosaurs and
human origins, but about why all species behave as they do--from
beetles that devour their own young, to bees that function as a
collective brain, to dogs that are smarter in some respects than
our closest ape relatives. And basic evolutionary principles are
also the foundation for humanity's capacity for symbolic thought,
culture, and morality.
In example after example, Wilson sheds new light on Darwin's grand
theory and how it can be applied to daily life. By turns
thoughtful, provocative, and daringly funny, Evolution for Everyone
addresses some of the deepest philosophical and social issues of
this or any age. In helping us come to a deeper understanding of
human beings and our place in the world, it might also help us to
improve that world.
"From the Hardcover edition."
No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem,
a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for
years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major
scientific event, tells us differently. In "Unto Others"
philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson
demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an
important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book
provides a panoramic view of altruism throughout the animal
kingdom--from self-sacrificing parasites to insects that subsume
themselves in the superorganism of a colony to the human capacity
for selflessness--even as it explains the evolutionary sense of
such behavior.
Explaining how altruistic behavior can evolve by natural
selection, this book finally gives credence to the idea of group
selection that was originally proposed by Darwin but denounced as
heretical in the 1960s. With their account of this controversy,
Sober and Wilson offer a detailed case study of scientific change
as well as an indisputable argument for group selection as a
legitimate theory in evolutionary biology.
"Unto Others" also takes a novel evolutionary approach in
explaining the ultimate psychological motives behind unselfish
human behavior. Developing a theory of the proximate mechanisms
that most likely evolved to motivate adaptive helping behavior,
Sober and Wilson show how people and perhaps other species evolved
the capacity to care for others as a goal in itself.
A truly interdisciplinary work that blends biology, philosophy,
psychology, and anthropology, this book will permanently change not
just our view of selfless behavior but also our understandingof
many issues in evolutionary biology and the social sciences.
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David Sloan Kruse; Illustrated by David Sloan Kruse; Edited by Nan McNab
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Four men have done the improbable: predicted perfect March Madness
brackets through to the Final Four. Each has chosen a different
champion and receives a ticket to the final games to see who will
win it all. But the tournament turns their lives upside down in
ways they never could have predicted. Cole Kaman, a hapless
receptionist in a dead-end job, fills out the bracket at random to
impress a co-worker, only to attract the attention of a deranged
serial arsonist. Perry Lynwood, a middle-aged gamer who spends his
time as a warrior in a virtual city, becomes unhinged as events in
the virtual world begin happening in reality. Neeson Faulkner, the
ambitious founder of a green energy company, bets everything on the
powerful software used to predict his bracket. And Tucker Barnes is
a college student who just wants to watch a few games, but he can't
seem to escape involvement in an international crisis on the other
side of the world. These four men will collide against the backdrop
of America's most exciting tournament in a story about genius,
luck, ambition, and the unsettling truth that there is always a
bigger game. Four men. Four perfect brackets. One tournament.
Infinite possibilities.
An experienced teacher explores appropriate literature for each
year of the Waldorf high school. He examines the unique
developmental stages of each year, and gives rich examples of
suitable literature. David Sloan's love for literature, and desire
to inspire his adolescent students, shines through these pages.
This is a book that will delight high school teachers.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,” “culture,” and “policy.”
In a series of engaging and insightful examples—from the breeding of hens to the timing of cataract surgeries to the organization of an automobile plant—Wilson shows how an evolutionary worldview provides a practical tool kit for understanding not only genetic evolution but also the fast-paced changes that are having an impact on our world and ourselves. What emerges is an incredibly empowering argument: If we can become wise managers of evolutionary processes, we can solve the problems of our age at all scales—from the efficacy of our groups to our well-being as individuals to our stewardship of the planet Earth.
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