The Harvard Sampler : : Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century / / Evelynn Maxine Hammonds, Stephen Michael Kosslyn, Jennifer M. Shephard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
• VerfasserIn: Shephard, Jennifer M.,; Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine,; Kosslyn, Stephen Michael,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine,; Kosslyn, Stephen Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 8 color illustrations, 20 halftones, 4 tables

From Harvard University, one of the world's preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays sampling topics at the forefront of academia in the twenty-first century. Written by faculty members at the cutting edge of their fields, including such luminaries as Steven Pi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Enhancing Religious Literacy in a Liberal Arts Education through the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies / Asani, Ali S.
• American Literature and the American Environment: There Never Was an "Is" without a "Where" / Buell, Lawrence
• The Internet and Hieronymus Bosch: Fear, Protection, and Liberty in Cyberspace / Lewis, Harry R.
• Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution: Pattern, Process, and the Evidence / Losos, Jonathan B.
• Global History for an Era of Globalization: An Introduction / Maier, Charles S.
• Medical Detectives / Michels, Karin B.
• The Human Mind / Pinker, Steven
• Securing Human Rights Intellectually: Philosophical Inquiries about the Universal Declaration / Risse, Mathias
• What Is Morality? / Scanlon, T. M.
• Energy Resources and the Environment: A Chapter on Applied Science / Shaw, John H.
• Interracial Literature / Sollors, Werner
• "Pursuits of Happiness": Dark Threads in the History of the American Revolution / Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher