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This book provides solid analyses of the events and trends that are reshaping Europe. It examines 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.

Originally published as an edition of Dcedalus, this updated volume brings together 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 perestroïka on the future of Europe.

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India.

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Originally published as the Fall 1986 issue of Daedalus, this volume offers dialogues, interviews, and observations on the vitality of this leading art form.

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. Their exploration focuses on the many controversies and debates that continue to vitalize the field.Contributors Jack D...

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. The essays are grouped in sections covering the sociological and historical background, cultural impacts, clinical perspectives, the public-policy agenda in the United States, and...

A large historical literature on America's college and universities exists, but much of it is unashamedly hagiographic. The charge of more critical volumes that American universities are in dire need of massive reform is not sustained by the contributors to The American Academic Profession. They hope to shatter the code of silence that passes for discretion, by focusing on the forces that have conspired to create the American academic professi...

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There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal arts colleges propound a quite different set of values. Their continuing faith in the liberal arts -- not as the nineteenth century...

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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. Over the course of his career he embraced both the humanities and the sciences. Given this background, it is fitti...

Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind provides the fullest view possible of the development of Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It is essential reading for courses that deal with American foreign relations in the twentieth century.

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This volume examines the new European order in light of the fall of the Soviet Union. It argues for greater tolerance of societies that are small and do not cast a long shadow in the world.