Author: J. Rosser Matthew
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: certainty, medical, quest, quantification
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-07-03
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0691037949
ISBN-13: 9780691037943

Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statisti

Author: Arno J. Mayer
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: russian, revolutions, french, terror, violence, furies
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2000-03-20
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0691048975
ISBN-13: 9780691048970

The growing frequency of peaceful expansions of human rights, private property, and market capitalism lead many to consider violent revolutions a thing of the past. In light of, for example, the dismantling of the Soviet Empire, the reunification of Germany, and the Czechoslovakian "velvet Revolution," violence as a mechanism for institutional change seems immoral and counterproductive, an anachronism in our age of global economies and shuttle diplomacy. Arno Mayer takes a contrarian position in The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions. Throughout his comparative s

Author: Rakesh Khurana
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: unfulfilled, schools, promise, management, profession, business, american, hired, aims, hands, social, transformation, higher
Number of Pages: 542
Published: 2007-09-17
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 069112020X
ISBN-13: 9780691120201

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteent

Author: Arturo Sangalli
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: mystery, mathematical, revenge, pythagoras
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-05-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691049556
ISBN-13: 9780691049557

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras’ Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras’ Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into an entertaining story. Jule Davidson, a young American mathematician, answers difficult math riddles on the Internet and stumbles upon a neo-Pythagorean sect searching for the

Author: William Agosta
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: chemistry, nature, tales, killers, deceivers, thieves
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-02-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691092737
ISBN-13: 9780691092737

After sucking in the reader with a thrilling anthropomorphic account of an ant slave raid, Thieves, Deceivers and Killers relates tales of beetles, flowers, mussels, bacteria, and other organisms that eavesdrop on the chemical messages other species use to communicate. Not only do they eavesdrop on each other, they subvert the intercepted messages for their own ends, often killing the sender. In contrast to Dr. Agosta’s previous books on chemical messengers, wherein the material was organized by complexity or function, here he presents anecdotes demonstrating a particular biological inte

Author: Hayagreeva Rao
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: innovations, radical, activists, rebels, market
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691134561
ISBN-13: 9780691134567

Great individuals are assumed to cause the success of radical innovations--thus Henry Ford is depicted as the one who established the automobile industry in America. Hayagreeva Rao tells a different story, one that will change the way you think about markets forever. He explains how "market rebels"--activists who defy authority and convention--are the real force behind the success or failure of radical innovations. Rao shows how automobile enthusiasts were the ones who established the new automobile industry by staging highly publicized reliability races and lobbying governments to enact li

Author: Anne-Marie Slaughter
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: order, world, new
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-07-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691123977
ISBN-13: 9780691123974

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It’s not a collection of nation states that communicate through presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, and the United Nations. Nor is it a clique of NGOs. It is governance through a complex global web of "government networks." Slaughter provides the most compelling and authoritative description to date of a world in whic