Bøker av Stephen R. Graubard

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India.

Books, Bricks, and Bytes brings together an extraordinary array of authors at the cutting edge of these concerns, not only within the United States, but experts drawn from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, Brazil and India.

Until recently, there has been a widespread view that we must give up amenities of modern life in order to achieve environmental sustainability. While newspapers and other popular media tend to focus on the negative aspects of environmental change, this volume examines the alternative notion of 'positive ecology'. Initially gleaned from the orientation of 'positive psychology', this argues that environmental science has been all too focused on analysing negative 'pathologies' and forgetting to provide more positive analysis and activism for sustainability. Bringing together a wide range of 'positive ecology' orientated case studies for the first time, the book discusses the wider contexts of how humanity is dependent on a functioning, biodiverse ecosphere of which we are only one part. It provides an original and previously undervalued approach to sustainability, and suggests that work towards sustainability is not only a necessity for our children's future, but necessary, sensible and meaningful in the present.

There is much change underway in American higher education

An examination of the American liberal arts college as an institution, from its role in the lives of students, to its value as a form of education. It explores the threats they face as well as the transformative role, both positive and negative, that IT will play in their future development.

Kissinger: Portrait of a Mind provides the fullest view possible of the development of Kissinger's approach to foreign policy. It is essential reading for courses that deal with American foreign relations in the twentieth century.

This analysis and overview of the American academic profession aims to break the code of silence that hangs over it, as well as address some of the criticisms levelled at it. It asks can a society truly understand its universities when it has moved too quickly from admiration to complaint.

Appeared originally in the winter and spring 1971 issues of Ddalus.