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Produced in association with the Einstein Legacy Society at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where Professor Morton White, one of the 20th century’s leading pragmatist philosophers, spent much of his career, this timely volume updates and recontextualizes a major philosophical study of our anxiety about the concept of the city and its future.
A combination of text and images that shows how, over decades, a columnist for a great American newspaper has used his cartooning talent to sharpen his criticism and commentary on cityscapes and the structures we choose to build within them. A witty, instructive and incisive look at both the recent history of urban thought and the power of cartoon art.
The pivotal events of our time include the Soviet Union’s fall, our planet’s movement into a critical phase of climate change, and the rise of Internet technologies, which have ushered us into an era of universal digital infrastructure. In this searching symposium, philosophers in several countries assess the digital revolution’s profound implications for the human prospect.
Prior to the pandemic, computerized telecommunications began altering workplaces. As distance work evolved, it became clear that telework wasn’t just an option to let employees work at home periodically: a bigger change was under way. The Coronavirus confirmed this dramatically. In this volume, an international panel of academics discusses what comes next.
Technology's transformation of our world prompts the question: Are technologies gifts or curses? This book answers by explaining the difference between science and technology. It argues cogently that confusing them has created many false beliefs, and that a clearer understanding of their respective roles is essential to address our 21st-century challenges.
The convergence of science fiction with reality obsessed one of the 20th century’s most influential writers, whose writings on science fact and possibility gave him a prophetic place among those who have imagined the human future. In this challenging volume, scholars around the world use Clarke's ideas as a window on our tomorrow among the stars. Includes commentary by Sir Arthur published here for the first time in book form.
Before Stan Lee, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and the Avengers, Lee Falk launched the superhero age by giving the world Mandrake, the caped illusionist, and The Phantom, first hero to combine a secret identity, eyeless mask, a crusade for justice, and a skin-tight costume. Mr Falk’s widow looks back on her years with a pioneer of an American art form.
The United States was born when the intellectual prestige of science swept the world, and in time the new republic became a standard-bearer of global scientific advancement. By the early 21st century, however, a significant number of Americans and their political leaders had become science deniers. This provocative work calls for a scientific renaissance and traces the academic origin of science's fall.
Taking its title from Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, this inspiring, moving book tells of a remarkable act of transatlantic compassion at a time when the US was seen as a beacon of hope and moral leadership for the world. A companion volume to Evangelos Louizos's powerful memoir of WW2 Greece, My Father Had This Luger.
Over millennia, civilizations evolved out of mythic traditions. Ancient Greece, Rome, Asia and cultures elsewhere produced stories that shaped the world’s imagination. Now, as old influences recede, popular culture and powerful entertainment technologies are creating a new vocabulary of myth, explored here by an international array of scholars.