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Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field

• Features original, accessible contributions from pioneering scholars in the field
• Offers insights into the process of developing a workable world history research topic and the experience of professional life as a world historian.
• Points to methodological challenges; the scholar's current research agenda in...

Architects of World History presents an innovative collection of original essays by leading scholars associated with World History, exploring through intellectual autobiography the ideas, challenges, and inspirations that are shaping the field

• Features original, accessible contributions from pioneering scholars in the field
• Offers insights into the process of developing a workable world history research topic and the experience of professional life as a world historian.
• Points to methodological challenges; the scholar's current research agenda in...

Just as W. Timothy Gallwey's ground-breaking "The Inner Game of Golf" introduced golfers to the mental game, so too, will Kenneth Van Kampen's "Visual Golf" become the invaluable primer to mental imagery and visualization--both expremely popular sports-training techniques.

Virtually all professional athletes use some sort of visualization process to prepare for competition: whether it's to practice a shot, a swing, or a move again and again, or to "see" a successful attempt at a previously daunting feat. Van Kampen now brings these training tools to golfers of all levels. In addition,...

Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or "lifestyle" risks, such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public reactions sometimes seem bizarre. To the public, the behavior of those supposedly "in charge" can seem no less odd. Trust is currently at a premium. This new edition of Risk Communication and Public Health covers the theoretical and research background, and presents a wide range of contemporary case studies and the learning experiences from these, and the political,...

This volume presents a collection of 30 essays on the character, administration and management of research universities, with special emphasis on the perspective of statistics and operations research. It concentrates on issues of systematic planning, planning models, teaching approaches, and management associated with the aims and methods of operations research, although it also deals with more general concerns about the management of universities and university resources. A final section looks at some of the applications of operations-research and statistical tools that have moved outside...

Philosophical Humanism Puts Human Nature at the center of the Knowledge Process and defines values in terms of the relation of things to Human Living; Scientific Humanism investigates Cosmic behavior with view to controlling it for human ends; Educational Humanism relates the power of knowledge to the needs of Life; and religious Humanism grounds spirituality in human living, thus contrasting sharply with Super natural, Super Human and absolutistic value-themes. Reese