Drawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education. His conclusions are sobering. Although most students …

Long before the United States because a major force in global affairs, Americans believed they were superior to others because of their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to …

In his inimitable fashion, Paul Ormerod draws upon recent advances in biology to help us understand the surprising consequences of the Iron Law of Failure. And he shows what strategies corporations, businesses and governments will …

Ideas about heredity and evolution are undergoing a revolutionary change. New findings in molecular biology challenge the gene-centered version of Darwinian theory according to which adaptation occurs only through natural selection of chance DNA variations. …

“You can accomplish anything you can dream, if you can get someone else to do it!” This is the personal mission statement and secret weapon of R. Philip Hanes — businessman, entrepreneur, civic leader, conservationist, …

The beginning of the twenty-first century is a watershed in modern science, a time that will forever change our understanding of the universe — and The Cosmic Landscape is the first book to illuminate the …

As Nano-Hype shows, there’s a lot of money to be made in nanotech, and enthusiastic advocates as well as those who loudly oppose get the most attention. Attention gets researchers their grants, universities their budgets, …

Dealing with Darwin will help you understand your company’s role in its market ecosystem: where your competitive advantage came from in the past and how it will change in the future; what kinds of differentiation …

Clocks became common in late medieval Europe and the measurement of time began to rule everyday life. God’s Clockmaker is a biography of England’s greatest medieval scientist, a man who solved major practical and theoretical …

In the 1790s, for the first time, reformers proposed bringing poverty to an end. Inspired by scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States, political thinkers …

Each leader has his or her own beliefs, perspectives, experiences, and style. Perhaps nowhere are the differences more pronounced than between leaders of different generations. As they try to work together toward common goals, their …

Robert McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. Rich Media, Poor Democracy addresses …

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Humans’ active and invasive investigation of genetics has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter, the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to …

How did everything around us — the air, the land, the sea, and the stars — originate? What is the source of order, form, and structure characterizing all material things? These are just some of …

Prosthesis — pointing to an addition, replacement, extension, enhancement — has become something of an all-purpose metaphor for the interactions of body and technology. Concerned with cybernetics, transplant technology, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, among …