How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’s intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post–9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that “we must again embrace eggheads and ideas.” But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant , Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key Golden Age academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch’s narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship
《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业
《南来的挑战》是大众报业集团（大众日报社）社长梁国典从事新闻工作30年来的作品选集，精选了作者撰写的通讯和论文的代表作品。作者从记者干起，全身心投入新闻工作，紧跟时代发展潮流，采写和组织策划了孔繁森、李登海、朱彦夫、王乐义等重大典型人物报道，推出了如莱芜市乡镇简政放权、莱西市村级组织建设、文登农村精神文明建设、荣成市实践“三个代表”的经验以及海尔经验、“南巡第三春的汇报系列述评”等等重大经验性报道，挖掘重大典型、新闻事件、英模人物身上的时代价值，捕捉新闻背后的丰盈内涵，多篇作品获得中国新闻奖。实践证明，这些通讯报道的典型，经住了时间的检验，到现在仍具有典型意义，是做好新时期典型宣传的生动教材。作者走上管理岗位后，注重加强对新闻实践的总结提升，撰写了大量业务论文，内容涉及采编业
An authoritative introduction to the latest comparative methods in evolutionary biology Phylogenetic comparative methods are a suite of statistical approaches that enable biologists to analyze and better understand the evolutionary tree of life, and shed vital new light on patterns of divergence and common ancestry among all species on Earth. This textbook shows how to carry out phylogenetic comparative analyses in the R statistical computing environment. Liam Revell and Luke Harmon provide an incisive conceptual overview of each method along with worked examples using real data and challenge problems that encourage students to learn by doing. By working through this book, students will gain a solid foundation in these methods and develop the skills they need to interpret patterns in the tree of life. Covers every major method of modern phylogenetic comparative analysis in R Explains the basics of R and discusses topics such as trait evolution, diversification, trait-dependent divers
An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions, An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard’s great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative mo
The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern world For all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in modern Jewish history that we have mostly lost sight of the fact that they are only part of―and indeed reactions to―the central event of that history: emancipation. In this book, David Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world. Ranging from the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, Jewish Emancipation tells the ongoing story of how Jews have gained, kept, lost, and recovered rights in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Israel. Emancipation, Sorkin shows, was not a one-time or linear event that began with the Enlightenment or French Revolution and culminated with Jews' acquisition of rights in Ce
