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Paul Eliot Gootenberg is a historian of Latin America who specializes in the history of the Andean drug trade, the fields of Peruvian and Mexican history, as well as historical sociology. He earned an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford (1981) and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1985), and is currently a professor of history and co ...
0-520-21091-3. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China is an influential [1] and frequently cited [2] book which explores the economic and cultural history and the "influence of economic change on social and cultural life" [3] in China during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). [4] The book is written by Timothy Brook, a ...
Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 24 April 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and a Research Associate on staff at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [1] His research focuses on speciation and ...
624. ISBN. 9780465093502. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind (published as Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World in the United States) is a 2019 non-fiction history book by British historian Tom Holland . The book is a broad history of the influence of Christianity on the world, focusing on its impact on morality ...
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer.He is a professor of computer science at Yale University.. Gelernter is known for contributions to parallel computation in the 1980s, and for books on topics such as computed worlds (Mirror Worlds).
Rosa Brooks ( née Ehrenreich; born 1970) [1] is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks is also an adjunct scholar at West Point 's Modern War Institute and a senior ...
Arthur C. Brooks (born May 21, 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and academic. Since 2019, Brooks has served as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and at the Harvard Business School as a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow.
ISBN. 0-674-02773-6. Death by a Thousand Cuts is a book by historians Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue, and Jérôme Bourgon which examines the use of slow slicing or lingchi, a form of torture and capital punishment practised in mid - and late-Imperial China from the tenth century until its abolition in 1905. [1]