Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 650-650
Author(s):  
Sven Treitel ◽  
David Bartel
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Computational Statistics ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences with Applications in MATLAB, by Alan D. Chave, ISBN 978-1-107-09600-4, 2017, Cambridge University Press, 464 p. Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, by Marcia Bjornerud, ISBN 978-0-691-18120-2, 2018, Princeton University Press, 224 p.

Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 708-708
Author(s):  
Lucy MacGregor ◽  
Robert W. Avakian
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Induced Seismicity ◽  
Computational Statistics ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Earth

Computational Statistics in the Earth Sciences, by Alan Chave, ISBN 978-1-10709-600-4, 2017, Cambridge University Press, 464 p. Fluid-Induced Seismicity, by Serge A. Shapiro, ISBN: 978-1-108-44792-8, 2018, Cambridge University Press, 298 p.

scholarly journals Before and after Columbus

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
Peter Mason
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After

[First paragraph]Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology. DJELAL KADIR. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xiv + 256 pp. (Cloth US$ 30.00)The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus. VALERIE IJ. FLINT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xx + 233 pp. (Cloth US$ 30.00)Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America. EVIATAR ZERUBAVEL. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xiv + 164 pp. (Cloth US$ 17.00)Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters. O.R. DATHORNE. Westport CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994. x + 241 pp. (Cloth US$ 49.95)Three of the books under review were published in 1992, and each of them approaches the significance of Columbus's landfall 500 years earlier in a different way. What they have in common, as their titles and subtitles indicate, is that they all purport to be about a mental framework - an "imaginative landscape" (Flint), a "mental discovery" (Zerubavel), "Europe's prophetic rhetoric as conquering ideology" (Kadir), or "imagining the world" (Dathorne).The 1992 commemoration led to a flood of books on Columbus and on the discovery of America. Now that the commotion has died down, it becomes easier to separate the wheat from the chaff, to distinguish between occasional publications hastily put together for the occasion, and solid contributions to scholarship which, while never immune to their own times, may be expected to retain a value that is more than temporary.

MODERN JAPAN'S TROUBLED PURSUIT OF ‘WEALTH AND POWER’

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-550
Author(s):  
STEPHEN S. LARGE
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Alliance Politics ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperial Japan ◽  
And Migration

Japan through American eyes: the journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866. Edited and annotated by F. G. Notehelfer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. 652. £39.00.Sabotaging the shogun: Western diplomats open Japan, 1859–69. By John McMaster. New York: Vantage Press, 1992. Pp. 201. $16.95.Japan and the world since 1868. By Michael A. Barnhart. London: Edward Arnold, 1995. Pp. 198. £40.00 hbk: £13.99 pbk.The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895–1910. By Peter Duus. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. 480. £37.50.Race and migration in Imperial Japan. By Michael Weiner. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. 278. £37.50.Voluntary death in Japan. By Maurice Pinguet. Oxford: Polity Press, 1993. Pp. 365. £45.00.Shōwa: the Japan of Hirohito. Edited by Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard. London and New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Pp. 315. £8.95.Arming Japan: defence production, alliance politics, and the postwar search for autonomy. By Michael J. Green. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. 206. £30.00.The technological transformation of Japan: from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. 304. £35.00.The emptiness of Japanese affluence. By Gavan McCormack. Armonk, New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. 311. £16.95.

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