Peg Hayden Stearns, author of My Journey of a Century, is the central character of this well told life story. This graceful and polished lady, at 104 years of age, fulfilled her dream to tell this ama
Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the coo
?The best account [of the conflict in the Congo] so far?.The task facing anyone who tries to tell this whole story is formidable, but Stearns by and large rises to it.” ?Adam Hochschild, New York Time
This volume co-published in partnership with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, provides a comprehensive review of novel biomarkers that can be used in the continuum of breast cancer. These includ
Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the relationship between religious thought and the natural sciences, Justin K. Stearns shows how nineteenth and twentieth-century European and Middle Eastern scholars jointly developed a narrative of the decline of post-formative Islamic thought, including the fate of the natural sciences in the Muslim world. Challenging these depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world, Stearns uses numerous close readings of works in the natural sciences to a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in scholarly and educational landscapes of the Early Modern Magreb, and considers non-teleological possibilities for understanding a persistent engagement with
Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew̵
Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew̵
This fascinating autobiography by Harold Sterns, a central figure of the mythic Lost Generation, casts the era immortalized Hemingway's and Fitzgerald's fiction in new light; a sober and clear-eyed pe
The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. InDebating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading ex
The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. InDebating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading ex
