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Useful knowledge : the American Philosophical Society millennium program / Alexander G. Bearn, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 0065-9738 ; v. 234.
- Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9738 ; v. 234
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Philosophical Society.
- Learning and scholarship--Congresses.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Twenty-first century--Congresses.
- Twenty-first century.
- American Philosophical Society--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 307 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1999.
- Contents:
- The laws of nature / Steven Weinberg ; Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, discussant
- Our concepts of the cosmos: progress, prospects and mysteries / Martin J. Rees ; Freeman J. Dyson, discussant
- Mathematics and computing / Peter D. Lax ; Charles L. Fefferman, discussant
- Global warming: does science matter? / Richard M. Goody ; James G. Anderson, discussant
- The molecular biology of Huntington's Disease / Max F. Perutz ; Jerome Karle, discussant
- Scientists and the public: an ambivalent partnership / Paul L. Berg ; Harold T. Shapiro, discussant
- Cancer: the revolution and the challenge / Bert Vogelstein ; Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., discussant
- Wiring the brain: dynamic interplay between nature and nurture / Carla J. Shatz ; John E. Dowling, discussant
- A neuroscience of memory for the 21st century / Christopher Pittenger and Eric R. Kandel ; Vernon B. Mountcastle, discussant
- National sovereignty and human rights / Louis Henkin ; Kent Greenawalt, discussant
- Economics becomes a science
- or does it? / Alan S. Blinder ; Andrew F. Brimmer, discussant
- A millennium of economics in twenty minutes: in pursuit of useful knowledge / William J. Baumol ; Joseph E. Stiglitz, discussant
- Population in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Joel E. Cohen ; Samuel H. Preston, discussant
- Reconstructing the past / John Elliott ; Anthony Grafton, discussant
- Art and architectural history in the twentieth century / Henry A. Millon ; David Freedberg, discussant
- More than one millennium: the perennial return of the history of religions / Wendy Doniger ; Hermann Hunger, discussant
- Singularity in an age of globalization / Marc Fumaroli ; Glen W. Bowersock, discussant
- One hundred years of the renaissance / Hanna Holborn Gray ; William J. Bouwsma, discussant
- Race and admission to universities / Derek Bok ; David Gardner, discussant
- Health care in a democratic society / Nancy Kassebaum Baker ; Francisco J. Ayala, discussant
- Culture and democracy in America / Sheldon Hackney ; John H. D'Arms, discussant.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871692341
- OCLC:
- 42598292
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