A Lever Long Enough

Author : Robert McCaughey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231166881

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A Lever Long Enough by Robert McCaughey Pdf

In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build both a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS’s engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. He compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school’s engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches to those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy league engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

Author : Neil MacCormick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191622007

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Practical Reason in Law and Morality by Neil MacCormick Pdf

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate to human nature, and how do they enter practical reasoning? How do the concepts of 'right and wrong' fit in, and in what way do they involve questions of mutual trust among human beings? How does our moral freedom - our freedom to form our own moral commitments - relate to our responsibilities to each other? How is this final question transposed into law and legal commitments? This book explores these questions, vital to understanding the nature of law and morality. It presents a clear account of practical reason, valuable to students of moral philosophy and jurisprudence at undergraduate or postgraduate levels. For more advanced scholars it also offers a reinterpretation of Kant's views on moral autonomy and Smith's on self-command, marrying Smith's 'moral sentiments' to Kant's 'categorical imperative' in a novel way. The book concludes and underpins the author's Law, State and Practical Reason series. Taken together the books offer an overarching theory of the nature of law and legal reason, the role of the State, and the nature of moral reason and judgement.

Author : Samuel Orchart Beeton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600082028

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Beeton's Dictionary of universal information; comprising a complete summary of the moral, mathematical, physical and natural sciences [&c., ed. by S.O. Beeton and J. Sherer. Wanting pt. 13]. by Samuel Orchart Beeton Pdf

Author : Chris Woodford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472912244

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Atoms Under the Floorboards by Chris Woodford Pdf

Using the modern home as a springboard, Atoms under the Floorboards introduces the reader to the fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes. Packed with facts and fun, each chapter focuses on a feature in each of the areas and slowly unpicks the science behind it. * Is it better to build skyscrapers like wobbly jellies or stacks of biscuits? *Can you burn your house down with an electric drill? *How many atoms would you have to split to power a lightbulb? *How can a raincoat be waterproof and breathable at the same time? Atoms under the Floorboards answers all these questions, and hundreds more. You'll never look at your home the same way again ...

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015068179749

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Railroad Retirement. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, First Session, on H. R. 1362 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Author : Francis Robert Goulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:HN365P

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Marooner's Island by Francis Robert Goulding Pdf

Author : Francis Robert Goulding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015039579563

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Marooner's Island, Or, Dr. Gordon in Search of His Children by Francis Robert Goulding Pdf

Author : Alessio Terzi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674276321

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Growth for Good by Alessio Terzi Pdf

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It’s the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this even lead to a better society, especially in rich nations, helping us break free from a pointless obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these legitimate questions as a starting point for a riveting journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth. It’s an imperative, he argues, that we abandon at our own risk. Terzi ranges across centuries and diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is deeply interwoven with the human quest for happiness, well-being, and self-determination. Growth, he argues, is underpinned by core principles and dynamics behind the West’s rise to affluence. These include the positivism of the Enlightenment, the acceleration of science and technology and, ultimately, progress itself. Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the very way our society is organized through capitalism. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict within and among societies. This does not mean we have to choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global decarbonization wave and in parallel create good jobs and a better, greener, healthier world.

Author : Patrick Shannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317935773

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Reading Poverty in America by Patrick Shannon Pdf

In this book Shannon’s major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling–how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each. In this new edition, Shannon provides an update of the ideological struggles to name and respond to poverty through the design, content, and pedagogy of reading education, showing how, through their representations and framing, advocates of liberal, conservative, and neoliberal interpretations attempt the ideological practice of teaching the public who they are, what they should know, and what they should value about equality, civic society, and reading. For those who decline these offers, Shannon presents radical democratic interpretations of the relationship between poverty and reading education that position the poor, the public, students, and teachers as agents in redistribution of economic, cultural, and political capital in the United States.

Author : Kenneth S. Goodman
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571431020

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Saving Our Schools by Kenneth S. Goodman Pdf

"Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public schools, to the detriment of dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children alike. Revealing how NCLB forces schools with strictly limited resources to teach its children test-taking skills in a desperate bid to pass high-stakes standardized testing, and how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, and methods that balk the NCLB party line, and much more, Saving Our Schools warns of an immediate threat to the integrity of public education and urges the reader to take action. An eye-opening social commentary, of keen importance in determining the nation's future. -Midwest Book Review

Author : Robert Scott Burn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375155315

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Mechanics and Mechanism by Robert Scott Burn Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

Author : Robert Scott Burn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017434658

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Mechanics and Mechanism: being elementary lessons and examples for the use of schools, students, and artisans by Robert Scott Burn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : NYPL:33433069059776

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Machinery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lester Gray French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Machine-tools
ISBN : UOM:39015080135778

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Machinery by Lester Gray French Pdf

Author : Fred Herbert Colvin,Lester Gray French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014638451

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Machinery by Fred Herbert Colvin,Lester Gray French Pdf