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A Century Of Ideas
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Author : B. G. Sidharth
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-04-05
A Century Of Ideas written by B. G. Sidharth and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-05 with Science categories.
Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel Laureates and other scientists of international renown, mostly on Physics and Astronomy. The present collection mostly consists of lectures on frontier topics. The transcript of each lecture is preceded by a short biography of the Nobel Laureate/Scientist in question. The lectures are aimed at a wide non-specialist but higher educated audience.
Education A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Gary Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Education A Very Short Introduction written by Gary Thomas and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with Education categories.
From the schools of ancient times to the present day, Gary Thomas looks at how and why education evolved as it has. By exploring some of the big questions, he examines the ways in which schools work, considers the differences around the world, and concludes by considering the future of education worldwide.
Making The World Work Better
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Author : Kevin Maney
language : en
Publisher: Pearson Education
Release Date : 2011-06-10
Making The World Work Better written by Kevin Maney and has been published by Pearson Education this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Thomas J Watson Sr’s motto for IBM was THINK, and for more than a century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company, journalists Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, and Jeffrey M. O’Brien mark the Centennial of IBM’s founding by examining how IBM has distinctly contributed to the evolution of technology and the modern corporation over the past 100 years. The authors offer a fresh analysis through interviews of many key figures, chronicling the Nobel Prize-winning work of the company’s research laboratories and uncovering rich archival material, including hundreds of vintage photographs and drawings. The book recounts the company’s missteps, as well as its successes. It captures moments of high drama – from the bet-the-business gamble on the legendary System/360 in the 1960s to the turnaround from the company’s near-death experience in the early 1990s. The authors have shaped a narrative of discoveries, struggles, individual insights and lasting impact on technology, business and society. Taken together, their essays reveal a distinctive mindset and organizational culture, animated by a deeply held commitment to the hard work of progress. IBM engineers and scientists invented many of the building blocks of modern information technology, including the memory chip, the disk drive, the scanning tunneling microscope (essential to nanotechnology) and even new fields of mathematics. IBM brought the punch-card tabulator, the mainframe and the personal computer into the mainstream of business and modern life. IBM was the first large American company to pay all employees salaries rather than hourly wages, an early champion of hiring women and minorities and a pioneer of new approaches to doing business--with its model of the globally integrated enterprise. And it has had a lasting impact on the course of society from enabling the US Social Security System, to the space program, to airline reservations, modern banking and retail, to many of the ways our world today works. The lessons for all businesses – indeed, all institutions – are powerful: To survive and succeed over a long period, you have to anticipate change and to be willing and able to continually transform. But while change happens, progress is deliberate. IBM – deliberately led by a pioneering culture and grounded in a set of core ideas – came into being, grew, thrived, nearly died, transformed itself... and is now charting a new path forward for its second century toward a perhaps surprising future on a planetary scale.
Empires Of Ideas
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Author : William C. Kirby
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-05
Empires Of Ideas written by William C. Kirby and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-05 with Education categories.
The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of—and threats to—US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
Books Of The Century
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Author : Charles McGrath
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Release Date : 2000
Books Of The Century written by Charles McGrath and has been published by Three Rivers Press (CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
A treasure-house of literary entertainment, featuring a century's worth of the best reviews, essays, and interviews ever published in "The New York Times Book Review. With more than 250 selections, Books of the Century -- now updated for this paperback edition -- sheds light on some of our greatest writers and how their books were received when first reviewed in "The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically, here are reviews of Franz Kafka's "The Trial, Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl, E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India, and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also selected from the Book Review's pages are letters to the editor from Jack London and Joseph Conrad, interviews with Emile Zola and Vladimir Nabokov, essays by Saul Bellow and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the "Oops!" feature, which humbly presents reviews of classics such as Catch-22 and The Catcher in the Rye that the Book Review initially panned. A time line runs throughout, highlighting the century's literary landmarks. Bringing together classic reviews and writings, "The New York Times Book Review has created a resource to be read and cherished for years to come.
Ideas In Action
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Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Ideas In Action written by Stephen Eric Bronner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Contemporary political theory has become alienated from politics. It often neither discusses concrete political events nor touches the world of political action. Stephen Eric Bronner wants to change that, and Ideas in Action takes a bold step in that direction. With elegance and power, Bronner surveys 20th century political traditions. In the process, he places theories and thinkers in their social, historical, and political contexts. His sweeping presentation is organized into four imaginatively articulated phases that signal the direction of political thinking in the twentieth century. Offering distinctive interpretations and criticisms, presenting a new internationalist perspective, Bronner imbues the text with original voices and primary sources from Adorno to Zetkin.
Great Transformations
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Author : Mark Blyth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-09-16
Great Transformations written by Mark Blyth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-16 with Business & Economics categories.
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
Making Ideas Visible In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Jennifer Milam
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-14
Making Ideas Visible In The Eighteenth Century written by Jennifer Milam and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Art categories.
"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Contributors consider the approach taken by individual artists and the material formation of concepts in different contexts by asking new questions of artworks that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, designed, and built forms. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, while the last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century thus introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment."--Cover page 4.
The Ideas That Made The Modern World
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Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
language : en
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Ideas That Made The Modern World written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and has been published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This is a study of the philosophers, thinkers, and scientists whose thoughts and ideas formed the Enlightenment of the seventeenth century and laid the foundation for the modern world as we know it.
Essays On A Half Century
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Author : W W Rostow
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1988-05
Essays On A Half Century written by W W Rostow and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-05 with History categories.