Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936 The Higher Learning in America brought into focus the root causes of the controversies that still beset the nation's educational system. Hu...(展开全部)

德里克·博克 美国当代杰出教育家、法学家和社会学家，美国当代颇具影响力的大学校长之一，西方高等教育史上举足轻重的思想家和实践家。 两度担任哈佛大学校长的人。1971年博克临危受命，担任哈佛大学第25任校长，他采取种种措施帮助教师与学生重塑信心，并引领学校回归正常的教学和科研轨道，直至1991年退休，任期长达20年。2006年，博克再度重返哈佛，于2006—2007年间担任代理校长，接替被迫辞职的校长劳伦斯·萨默斯，也因此成为近50年来任期最长的哈佛校长。 “教育界的诺贝尔奖”格文美尔教育奖获得者。在任期间，博克致力于哈佛大学课程改革，将效果不佳的通识教育转为课程教育，奠定了现代大学的课程标准，在美国乃至全世界产生了巨大影响，被公认为美国教育界最有影响力的人物之一。 世界一流大学争相效仿的“博克教学与学习中心”创始人。博克非常关注本科教学质量，...(展开全部)

Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant personal and professional appreciation by Harry S. Ashmore. When it was published in 1936 The Higher Learning in America brought into focus the root causes of the controversies that still beset the nation's educational system. Hu...(展开全部)

The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this, the first volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became saleable goods and American colleges were d...(展开全部)

Learning in the Museum confronts the educational role which museums can have and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. The book contains a brief history of education in public museums, and goes on to examine how the educational theories of Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky rela...(展开全部)

Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.

Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.

After describing the beginnings of the subject - the theory of large cardinals - a comprehensive account is given of the work in the 1960s on partition properties, forcing and sets of reals, and aspects of measurability (including saturated ideals and inner models of measurability). Then discussed are the strong hypotheses like supercompactness up to Kunen's inconsistency. The ...(展开全部)

This is the softcover reprint of the very popular hardcover edition. The theory of large cardinals is currently a broad mainstream of modern set theory, the main area of investigation for the analysis of the relative consistency of mathematical propositions and possible new axioms for mathematics. The first of a projected multi-volume series, this book provides a comprehensive ...(展开全部)

In economics, most noncooperative game theory has focused on equilibrium in games, especially Nash equilibrium and its refinements. The traditional explanation for when and why equilibrium arises is that it results from analysis and introspection by the players in a situation where the rules of the game, the rationality of the players, and the players' payoff functions are all ...(展开全部)