Concerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences--the relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences--the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. It comprised a distinguished international group of scholars--six...(展开全部)

This proceedings book presents the first-ever cross-disciplinary analysis of 16th–20th century South, East, and Southeast Asian cartography. The central theme of the conference was the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions, and the focus was on points of contact between Western and Asian cartographic history. Geographically, the topics were limited to So...(展开全部)

In THE FINANCIALCRISIS INQUIRY REPORT，the facts about the financial and economic crises that engulf the world will speak for themselves. Formed in May 2009, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Comission (FCIC) is a panel of ten commissioners chosen by the U.S. Congress to explain what happened , why it happened, and what could have been done to prevent it. On December 15th, 2010, the ...(展开全部)