Reflections on Cambridge

Reflections on Cambridge
Author: Alan Macfarlane
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788187358503

The traditions and creativity of Cambridge University have survived 800 years. In celebration, this first-ever combined historical and anthropological account explores the culture, the customs, the colleges and the politics of the revered institution. Having taught there for nearly forty years, the author sets forth a personal but also dispassionate attempt to understand how this ancient university developed and changed and how it continues to influence those who pass through it. This book delves into the history and architecture as well as the charm and the ghosts of Cambridge; it is for anyone who studies, teaches, visits, or is intrigued by this great intellectual centre.

Reflections on the Learning Sciences

Reflections on the Learning Sciences
Author: Michael A. Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781107659445

This volume offers a historical and critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and improving how children and adults learn. It features a wide range of authors, including established scholars who founded and guided the learning sciences through the initial turbulence of forming a new line of academic inquiry, as well as newcomers who are continuing to shape the field. This diversity allows for a broad yet selective perspective on what the learning sciences are, why they came to be, and how contributors conduct their work. Reflections on the Learning Sciences serves both as a starting point for discussion among scholars familiar with the discipline and as an introduction for those interested in learning more. It will benefit graduate students and researchers in computer science, educational psychology, instructional technology, science, engineering, and mathematics.

The Cambridge Kant Lexicon

The Cambridge Kant Lexicon
Author: Julian Wuerth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 2289
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009038192

Immanuel Kant is widely recognized as one of the most important Western philosophers since Aristotle. His thought has had, and continues to have, a profound effect on every branch of philosophy, including ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. This Lexicon contains detailed and original entries by 130 leading Kant scholars, covering Kant's most important concepts as well as each of his writings. Part I covers Kant's notoriously difficult philosophical concepts, providing entries on these individual 'trees' of Kant's philosophical system. Part II, by contrast, provides an overview of the 'forest' of Kant's philosophy, with entries on each of his published works and on each of his sets of lectures and personal reflections. This part is arranged chronologically, revealing not only the broad sweep of Kant's thought but also its development over time. Professors, graduate students, and undergraduates will value this landmark volume.

Co-creating Actionable Science

Co-creating Actionable Science
Author: Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1527549232

In response to the call for actionable and collaborative solutions-oriented research for sustainability, this collection of essays provides insights into the multi-layered challenges that underlie this fast-emerging field. It offers the reader a deeper understanding of the myriad local avenues where knowledge is co-produced to meet the grand challenge of our times—‘transformation to sustainability’. Situated within a wide variety of research settings in the global North and South, the contributions here variously probe how actionable science emerges (or fails to emerge) in this process. From diverse perspectives, they ruminate on various research practice topics, including how to reconcile scientific understanding with normative action, how to acknowledge and integrate participant knowledge in research, and how to handle potential negative impacts of actionable science. In examining these rarely reflected-upon questions, the book provides valuable, empirically-based insights into research practice, and will be useful for scholars and educators working with transdisciplinary research design and practice.

Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology

Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology
Author: Jamila Bookwala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2022-04-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108835570

Records the academic paths of ground-breaking women psychologists in their own words: their triumphs, decisions, obstacles, and legacies.

Reflections on Crime and Culpability

Reflections on Crime and Culpability
Author: Larry Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107159946

Through one coherent retributivist vision of the criminal law, this book explores under examined problems within criminal law theory.

Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups

Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups
Author: James E. Humphreys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1992-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521436137

This graduate textbook presents a concrete and up-to-date introduction to the theory of Coxeter groups. The book is self-contained, making it suitable either for courses and seminars or for self-study. The first part is devoted to establishing concrete examples. Finite reflection groups acting on Euclidean spaces are discussed, and the first part ends with the construction of the affine Weyl groups, a class of Coxeter groups that plays a major role in Lie theory. The second part (which is logically independent of, but motivated by, the first) develops from scratch the properties of Coxeter groups in general, including the Bruhat ordering and the seminal work of Kazhdan and Lusztig on representations of Hecke algebras associated with Coxeter groups is introduced. Finally a number of interesting complementary topics as well as connections with Lie theory are sketched. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on Coxeter groups and their applications.

Recollections and Reflections

Recollections and Reflections
Author: Joseph John Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108037925

This 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876-1936.

Business and Institutional Translation

Business and Institutional Translation
Author: Éric Poirier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527521427

The volume of economic, business, financial and institutional translation increases daily. Governments strive to produce plain and accessible information. Institutions and agencies operate in more than one language. Multinationals produce documents in multiple languages to expand their services worldwide, and large businesses and SMEs also have to adopt a multilingual approach for accessing new markets in new countries. Translation and interpreting training institutions are aware of the increasing need for training in this area. This awareness is evident in their curricula, which include subjects related to these areas of activity. Trainers and researchers are increasingly interested in knowing and researching the intricacies and aspects of this type of translation. This peer-reviewed publication, resulting from ICEBFIT 2016, echoes the voices of translation practitioners, researchers, and teachers, as well as other parties gathered to discuss new issues in institutional translation and business, finance and accounting translation, as well as, in a larger sense, specialized translation.

Reflections on the Work of Colin Wilson

Reflections on the Work of Colin Wilson
Author: Colin Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1527528448

When the archive of the English philosopher and polymath Colin Wilson (1931-2013) was officially opened at the University of Nottingham, UK, in the summer of 2011, it was agreed among those present that a conference should be held there to discuss his work. In July 2016, the First International Colin Wilson Conference was staged with the Proceedings being published a year later. The success of that conference inevitably meant that a second was arranged and held two years later in July 2018. This volume—which will be of interest to scholars and fans of Wilson’s work, in addition to students of philosophy and consciousness studies—contains the transcripts of the papers presented on July 6, 2018: day one of that second conference. Experts, scholars and fans, from around the globe, gathered to hear and present papers on a variety of Wilson-related topics ranging from Existentialism to the Occult; from Robert Musil to classical music; and from Transpersonal Psychology to Transcendental Evolution.