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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Kenneth W. Ford TITLE 101 Quantum Questions What You Need to Know About the World You Can’t See CATEGORY science trade NUMBER OF PAGES 326 39 halftones, 64 line illustrations, 9 tables PUBLICATION MONTH March AUTHOR BIO Kenneth Ford was born in West Palm Beach. Florida in 1926. Educated at Harvard and Princeton, he is now self-employed as a writer, consultant and tutor. He is the author of a number of books including The Quantum World published by HUP in 2004. BOOK DESCRIPTION A sequel to The Quantum World published in 2004 and translated into simplified character Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean, this new book covers relativity; atomic, nuclear, and particle physics; solid state physics; and more, providing easy-to-read descriptions of complex experiments and what has been learned from these observations. This book on quantum physics for the general reader is presented in question and answer format, with one question leading to another, permitting the reader curious about some specific topic, such as how a laser works or why black holes evaporate or what, exactly is a quantum jump, to work with the table of contents and index to answer that specific question. A strength of the book is its breadth. Rather than focus on a single subject, Ford deals with a multitude of topics including the Large Hadron Collider, the standard model of particles, string theory and fusion energy with an emphasis on understanding how disparate subjects can all be understood in terms of a few key ideas of quantum physics. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Robin Fox TITLE The Tribal Imagination Civilization and the Savage Mind CATEGORY anthropology trade NUMBER OF PAGES 400 28 line illustrations, 3 maps PUBLICATION MONTH March AUTHOR BIO Robin Fox was born in Yorkshire and educated at the London School of Economics and Harvard University, with post-doctoral work at Stanford Medical School. He did fieldwork in New Mexico and Donegal and from 1959 to 1967 taught at the universities of Exeter and London. In 1967 he published Kinship and Marriage: An Anthropological Perspective  , which is still probably the world’s most widely read anthropological text. In the same year he went to Rutgers to found a department of Anthropology and has been there ever since. His most recent books are The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity , 1999 and Participant Observer: A Memoir of a Transatlantic Life , 2004. In 1984, Rutgers made Robin Fox a University Professor, the highest honour it can confer on a faculty member. In 1997, the University of Ulster awarded him an honorary D.Sc. for ‘distinguished contributions to Irish studies and anthropology’. He is currently University Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University.
BOOK DESCRIPTION Represents a statement of a consistent position on man and society stemming from the author’s 1969 publication The Cultural Animal that stresses the importance of looking at the environmental underpinnings of human behavior and the constant pressure and limitations these impose on human action. Freud feared that “the burden of civilization” might be too great, that repression of our instincts was like a dam ready to burst, and we were always ready to slip into savagery. Lévi-Strauss reassured us that the savage mind was universal and basically rational; our civilized minds were the same as their savage counterparts, we just gave them more to do. They both were right. But behind them stands Darwin. The savage in us is the residue of millions of years of evolution, and it got us where we are. But the savage mind evolved to deal with a world totally different from the world transformed by the miracle of modern industrial society. It remains an open question whether the mind geared to living in small tribes can sustain the hugely complex world it has itself created so incredibly recently in evolutionary time. For Robin Fox the role of evolutionary science is not so much to explain what we do but to explain what we do at our peril. We take the world we know too much for granted; we must shock ourselves into seeing how recent and fragile it is. In a sweeping survey of highly varied case histories, Fox considers our chronomyopic perceptions of time; the human part of human rights; tribalism and democracy; taboo and morals in the Torah; animal dispersion and human sects; incest in literature from Osiris to Nabokov; the male bond in the epics from Gilgamesh to Camelot; poetry, memory and the brain; the origins of civilization; social evolution and the meaning of the tribes; the vicissitudes of folk culture; and the mythic and rational elements in the evolution of thought. He considers the possibilities of a true family of man with a scientific basis in human genetic unity. In trying to run our complex and expensive societies we are faced with the perennial appeal of tribalism – our continuing struggle with the maintenance of open societies in the face of our profoundly tribal human needs, and our need to draw on that very tribalism to survive. There is a balance if we can work it out. Time is short. Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Rights guide atlantic books corvus katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 252.6 Kb. Share with your friends:
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