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Big Data in History introduces a project to create a
world-historical archive that will trace the last four centuries of
historical dynamics and change. The archive will link research on
social, economic, and political affairs, plus health and climate,
for societies throughout the world. The care, detail, and advanced
technology that go into building such an archive are outlined in
this book, and the benefits of gathering and disseminating data
from our long history are clearly mapped out. Chapters address the
archive's overall plan, how to interpret the past through a global
archive, how to organize historical research on five continents,
and the missions of gathering widespread records, linking local
data into global patterns, and exploring the results. The
concluding chapters summarize project plans and compare it with two
major and successful projects in worldwide data: the modelling of
climate and documenting the human genome.
This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of
the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts
and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters
examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices
including films games, music, social media, literature and fandom.
World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph.Ds in history are required to teach the subject. They must be current on topics from human evolution to industrial development in Song-dynasty China to today's disease patterns - and then link these disparate topics into a coherent course. Numerous textbooks in print and in preparation summarize the field of world history at an introductory level. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians. In this book, Patrick Manning provides the first comprehensive overview of the academic field of world history. He reviews patterns of research and debate, and proposes guidelines for study by teachers and by researchers in world history.
This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of
the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts
and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters
examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices
including films games, music, social media, literature and fandom.
World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field. Growing numbers of teachers and Ph.Ds in history are required to teach the subject. They must be current on topics from human evolution to industrial development in Song-dynasty China to today's disease patterns--and then link these disparate topics into a coherent course. Numerous textbooks in print and in preparation summarize the field of world history at an introductory level. But good teaching also requires advanced training for teachers, and access to a stream of new research from scholars trained as world historians. In this book, Patrick Manning provides the first comprehensive overview of the academic field of world history. He reviews patterns of research and debate, and proposes guidelines for study by teachers and by researchers in world history.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
To remove the contents of an egg without puncturing its shell or
to drink the liquor in a bottle without removing the cork is
clearly unthinkable -- or is it? Understanding the world of
Einstein and curved space requires a logical conception of the
fourth dimension.
This readable, informative volume provides an excellent
introduction to that world, with 22 essays that employ a minimum of
mathematics. Originally written for a contest sponsored by
"Scientific American, "these essays are so well reasoned and
lucidly written that they were judged to merit publication in book
form. Their easily understood explanations cover such topics as how
the fourth dimension may be studied, the relationship of
non-Euclidean geometry to the fourth dimension, analogues to
three-dimensional space, some four-dimensional absurdities and
curiosities, possible measurements and forms in the fourth
dimension, and extensive considerations of four-dimensional space's
simpler properties.
Since each essay is independently conceived, all of the writers
offer fresh viewpoints and original examples. Because of this, some
of the most important principles relating to the fourth dimension
are viewed from several different angles at once -- an invaluable
aid to visualizing these abstruse but fascinating ideas. New
Introduction by Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University. 82
figures.
After decades of being out of the focus of the world's attention,
it now finds itself on the first pages or newspapers around the
world and on TV evening broadcasts on a daily basis. Whether this
will be good or not Iraq is yet to be ascertained. This new book
examines the new government and its activities, US Forces and their
activities and the possible reason for it all -- the massive oil
reserve and its activities.
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