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Languages : en
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Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History, Degrees of
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from Department of History of Art and Architecture, Degrees of
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History of Art and Architecture
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of the History of Science
Author: Final Report: Sources and documentation
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation ExperimentsPublisher:
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Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
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Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
Makin' Numbers
Author: I. Bernard CohenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262032636
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This collection of technical essays and reminiscences is a companion to I. Bernard Cohen's biography Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. After an overview by Cohen, Part I presents the complete publication of Aiken's 1937 proposal for an automatic calculating machine, later realized as the Mark I, as well as recollections by the chief engineer in charge of construction of Mark II, Robert Campbell, and the programmer of Mark I, Richard Bloch. Henry Tropp describes Aiken's hostility to the exclusive use of binary numbers in computational systems and his alternative approach.
Atlas of Emotion
Author: Giuliana BrunoPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178663323X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1133
Book Description
Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emphasises that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected. In so doing, Giuliana Bruno touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Message, the film making of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, the origins of the movie palace and its precursors, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science
Author: Patrick L. SchmidtPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538168308
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science, Patrick L. Schmidt tells the little-known story of how some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century struggled to elevate their emerging disciplines of cultural anthropology, sociology, and social and clinical psychology. Scorned and marginalized in their respective departments in the 1930s for pursuing the controversial theories of Freud and Jung, they persuaded Harvard to establish a new department, promising to create an interdisciplinary science that would surpass in importance Harvard’s “big three” disciplines of economics, government, and history. Although the Department of Social Relations failed to achieve this audacious goal, it nonetheless attracted an outstanding faculty, produced important scholarly work, and trained many notable graduates. At times, it was a wild ride. Some faculty became notorious for their questionable research: Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (reborn as Ram Dass) gave the psychedelic drug psilocybin to students, while Henry Murray traumatized undergraduate Theodore Kaczynski (later the Unabomber) in a three-year-long experiment. Central to the story is the obsessive quest of legendary sociologist Talcott Parsons for a single theory unifying the social sciences– the white whale to his Captain Ahab. All in all, Schmidt’s lively narrative is an instructive tale of academic infighting, hubris, and scandal.