
Useful Knowledge
The Millennium Program, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 234)
Alexander G. Bearn(Author)
American Philosophical Society Press
Published on 1. January 1999
Book
Hardback
307 pages
978-0-87169-234-4 (ISBN)
Description
Useful Knowledge: What will it be for the next millennium? In five symposia, members of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. asked this question in April 1999 at the Society's Millennium Meet. Contents: (1) Math & Physical Sciences: The Laws of Nature; Our Concepts of the Cosmos, Progress, Prospects & Mysteries; Math & Computing; Global Warming: Does Science Matter?; & The Molecular Biology of Huntington's Disease; (2): Biological Sci.: Scientists & the Public: An Ambivalent Partnership; Cancer: The Revolution & the Challenges; Wiring the Brain: Dynamic Interplay between Nature & Nurture; & A Neuroscience of Memory for the 21st Cent.; (3) Social Sci.: Nat. Sovereignty & Human Rights; Econ. Becomes a Science -- Or Does It?; & A Millennium of Economics in Twenty Minutes: In Pursuit of Useful Knowledge; (4) Humanities: Art & Architectural History in the 20th Cent.; More Than One Millennium: The Perennial Return of the History of Religions; & Singularity in an Age of Globalization; & (5) The Professions, Arts & Affairs: 100 Yrs. of the Renaissance; Race & Admission to Univ.; Health Care in a Democratic Soc.; & Culture & Democracy in America. Illus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87169-234-4 (9780871692344)
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Alexander G. Bearn