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Living Legacies at Columbia
Wm. Theodore de Bary (Ed.)
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Description for Living Legacies at Columbia
Hardback. Captures Columbia's rich intellectual legacy. This work also captures the spirit of a great university through the gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough, searching and discovery, and tradition and transformation. Editor(s): De Bary, William Theodore. Num Pages: 685 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; HBJK; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 206 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1456.
From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a hall-of-fame athlete.) In Living Legacies at Columbia, contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing, journalism education, black power, public health, the development of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender ... Read more
From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a hall-of-fame athlete.) In Living Legacies at Columbia, contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing, journalism education, black power, public health, the development of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
685
Condition
New
Number of Pages
685
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231138840
SKU
V9780231138840
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About Wm. Theodore de Bary (Ed.)
Wm. Theodore de Bary is John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus of Columbia University. He is the author of many books, most recently Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good and the editor of the seminal readers published by Columbia University Press: Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Korean ... Read more
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