Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Harvard Century PDF full book. Access full book title The Harvard Century by Richard Norton Smith. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Richard Norton Smith Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674372955 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
This text tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning has become synonomous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda. It is a narrative of the individual achievements of its leaders and of the intense power struggles that have shaped Harvard as it pioneered in setting the priorities that have served as exemplars for the nation's educational establishment.
Author: Richard Norton Smith Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674372955 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
This text tells the story of how Harvard, America's oldest and foremost institution of higher learning has become synonomous with the nation, their goals and standards reflecting each other, each setting the other's agenda. It is a narrative of the individual achievements of its leaders and of the intense power struggles that have shaped Harvard as it pioneered in setting the priorities that have served as exemplars for the nation's educational establishment.
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674888913 Category : Languages : en Pages : 538
Book Description
Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.
Author: Warren I. Cohen Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674007659 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
In a perceptive and engaging meditation on the relationship between East Asia and the United States, Cohen examines how cultural influences have transformed and benefited both Asians and Americans.
Author: Alfred Dupont CHANDLER Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674029399 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century, Pulitzer Prize-winning business historian Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., traces their origins and worldwide development. This masterful analysis is essential reading for every manager and student of technology.
Author: John T. Bethell Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674377332 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
Depicting the evolution of 20th-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, this text shows how changes in the structure and aspirations of American society led the University to remake itself after World War II, and to do so again after the social upheavals of the Vietnam era.
Author: Edward N. Wolff Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674495144 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 885
Book Description
Understanding wealth—who has it, how they acquired it, how they preserve it—is crucial to addressing challenges facing the United States. Edward Wolff’s account of patterns in the accumulation and distribution of U.S. wealth since 1900 provides a sober bedrock of facts and analysis. It will become an indispensable resource for future public debate.
Author: Jennifer M. Shephard Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674062906 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 391
Book Description
From Harvard University comes essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Eminent faculty members invite readers to explore subjects as diverse as religious literacy, cyberspace security, epidemiology, questions in evolution, the dark side of the American Revolution, and the biology of the human mind.
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674039432 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
Author: Thomas Piketty Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674979850 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 817
Book Description
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Author: Ellen Widmer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 446
Book Description
This study of Chinese women in the book trade begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th century. Building on these studies, the second half of the book focuses on the many sequels to the Dream of the Red Chamber and the significance of this novel for women.
Author: Richard Norton Smith
Author: Richard Norton Smith
Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Author: Warren I. Cohen
Author: Alfred Dupont CHANDLER
Author: John T. Bethell
Author: Edward N. Wolff
Author: Jennifer M. Shephard
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER
Author: Thomas Piketty
Author: Ellen Widmer