Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on the Higgs boson and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our bel…
Warren and Brandeis [23] cite the judge Thomas M. Cooley when making this statement and refer to a section on bodily integrity in his book [6, p. 29] where the original quote reads “The right to one’s person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone”[6, p. 29]. However, Cooley mainly refers to the integrity of the h…
Doctoral education has become a key element of the higher education landscape everywhere. With the spread of higher education massification and the rise of the global knowledge economy that began in the late twentieth century and continues today, doctoral education has expanded tremendously. There have been significant changes in doctoral education worldwide in the twent…
Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most cont…
It is then the rivers and the sea writ large that consti-tute the geographic template upon which this volume was developed. Why the Mediterranean? And why riv-ers? Taking up Fernand Braudel’s notion of a hinterland that is connected to the Mediterranean world, the vol-ume looks to the reverberations and echoes of this clas-sic site far beyond its shores and into the continent both North and E…
The human eye is very good at discerning when objects are moving from side to side. If you see your drone moving sideways towards a tree then you know to do something about it. However, once the your drone is a certain distance from you, it becomes almost impossible to tell not only how far away it is, but also whether it is even moving forwards or backwards. Naturally, this increases the chanc…
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversation?’