403 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Cornell University"

Radicals on the Road

Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun

Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout c...

Right Kind of Revolution

Latham, Michael E

After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, pro...

Research in Outdoor Education

Code Green

Weinberg, Dana Beth

Writing and Revising the Disciplines

In 1997, Cornell University's John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines (formerly the Knight Writing Program) established a center for research and exchange concerning questions of writing and disciplinarity. This book is the result of the Institute's encouragement of greater s...

Fish Watching

Smith, C Lavett

Who hasn't stopped along the banks of a stream to look for fish? Anyone who wants to enjoy fish in their own world will want this lavishly illustrated guide to a new kind of nature study. An expert whose passionate interest in fish is contagious, C. Lavett Smith is promoting a whole new outdoor...

Building a National Literature

Hohendahl, Peter Uwe.

Pilipino Through Self-Instruction

Wolff, John U / Centeno, Maria Theresa C / Rau, Der-Hwa V

This is the first volume in the four-volume series designed either for self-instruction or classroom use. Includes vocabulary, basic sentences, pattern practices, commentary, and exercises. Volume 4 includes a complete answer key to the set and a glossary. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes f...

Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics

Gennes, Pierre-Gilles

The first stage of the physics of long, flexible chains was pioneered by eminent scientists such as Debye, Kuhn, Kramers, and Flory, who formulated the basic ideas. In recent years, because of the availability of new experimental and theoretical tools, a second stage of the physics of polymers has e...

Sorry States

Lind, Jennifer M

Governments increasingly offer or demand apologies for past human rights abuses, and it is widely believed that such expressions of contrition are necessary to promote reconciliation between former adversaries. The post-World War II experiences of Japan and Germany suggest that international apologi...

Khrushchev's Cold Summer

Dobson, Miriam

Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus includ...

Thinking in Time

Guerlac, Suzanne

"In recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a substantial effort of thought.... Bergson's te...