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The concept of the apolitical: German Jewish thought and Weimar political theology: INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Modems, predicament, Princeton University, theory, University of Chicago; Research articles 2007-09-22
Still bucking theory of how dinosaurs died: As most everyone knows, a meteor struck Earth with violent force 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs. The crater was discovered in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula barely 15 years ago, yet already schoolchildren can recite the easy-to-grasp explanation for the end of an epoch. Problem: Gerta Keller thinks...; Tags: conference, extinction, Princeton University, Rutgers University, scientist, Texas, theory; Research articles 2006-10-25
All square: a surprising, far-reaching overhaul for theories about quadratic expressions: Start with the square numbers 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, and so on. Pick any other number and you can express it as a sum of squares. For example, 10 = 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 and 30 = 1 + 4 + 9 + 16. In...; Tags: Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, square, theory; Research articles 2006-03-11
How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West.(Book Review): How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. By Perez Zagorin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 371. $29.95.) This immensely readable book attempts to trace the origins of religious toleration in early modern Europe by focusing on a series...; Tags: Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2005-06-22
The other theory of relativity: OTHER THEORY OF RELATIVITY: According to Einstein, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" (from The New Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press).; Tags: Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2005-05-03

John Von Neumann: John Von Neumann The Hungarian-born American mathematician John Von Neumann (1903-1957) was the originator of the theory of games and an important contributor to computer technology. John Von Neumann was born in Budapest on Dec. 28, 1903. He left Hungary in 1918 and studied at the University of Berlin and...; Tags: computer, Games, mathematics, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, theory; Research articles 2005-01-01
John Forbes Nash, Jr: John Forbes Nash, Jr. Awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his pioneering work in game theory, John Nash (born 1928) distinguished himself as one of the foremost mathematical researchers and theorists of the twentieth century. Game theory was the subject of Nash's doctoral dissertation at Princeton University....; Tags: Forbes, Games, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2005-01-01
Magnesium-carbon-nickel wire could bridge gap between superconductor theories.(Superconductors): US researchers have made a wire that--although not a high-temperature superconductor itself--could help them to understand the mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity. Made from a magnesium-carbon-nickel (Mg[Cni.sub.3]) compound layered around a carbon fibre, it has a similar crystal structure to the cuprates, although it...; Tags: C, compound, Princeton University, professor, researcher, team, theory, U.S.; Research articles 2005-01-01
Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: a Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science: Merton, Robert K., and Elinor Barber. The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxv + 313 pp. Cloth, $29.98. In The Way of an Investigator (1945, pp. 68-78), physiologist Walter B. Cannon, one of...; Tags: Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2004-09-22
Earl Miner, 1927-2004.(Brief Article)(Obituary): Earl Miner of Princeton University, a longtime member of the Editorial Board of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, died on April 17, 2004, after a long illness. He was seventy-seven. A specialist in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature as well as classical Japanese literature, Earl...; Tags: CAREER, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2004-06-22
A lucid analysis of the origins of racism.: Racism: A Short History, by George Fredrickson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002, 207 pp., $22.95. "Racist" is a term of opprobrium these days. For years, Israel was branded a most "racist nation" and Zionism was equated with racism by the United Nations until...; Tags: analysis, Branding, Israel, MARKETING, Nazi, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2004-02-01
Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: from Triumph to Despair: Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2003. Hardcover $29.95. Adeed Dawisha analyzes Arab nationalism from its "early stirrings" and inception until its demise. He distinguishes between Arabism and Arab nationalism and takes issue with authors who do...; Tags: Arab, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2004-01-01
President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of Science.: M2 PRESSWIRE-22 October 2003-NSF: President names eight elite scientists and engineers to receive National Medals of ScienceC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10222003 Arlington, Va.-President Bush today named eight of the nation's leading scientists and engineers to receive the 2002 National Medal...; Tags: Biotechnology, E-mail, Fax, medal, Princeton University, Rutgers University, scientist, theory; Research articles 2003-10-22
Decolonisation, modernisation and nation-building: political development theory and the appeal of Communism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1975.: Introduction: ideologies of Western dominance and ideologies of modernisation Michael Adas, in his important study of 'ideologies of Western dominance', questions the idea that the influential theories of modernisation that emerged during the late colonial and early Cold War periods were 'primarily' new...; Tags: American University, Asia, Burma, Communism, democracy, Donald, East, G., government, ideology, Indonesia, Johnson, London, M., Princeton University, Richard, Robert, scientist, South, Southeast, Studies, theory, Vietnam; Research articles 2003-10-01
All life is chemical. (Books).: Ecological Stoichiometry: The Biology of Elements from Molecules to the Biosphere. Robert Warner Sterner and James J. Elser. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002.440 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 0691074909 cloth). Ecology struggles to understand the problems of complex "middle-number" systems. In these systems, the objects of study are...; Tags: Books, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2003-05-01
George, Robert P. The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis.(Book Review): Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books 403 pp., $24.95, ISBN 1-882926-62-5 Publication Date: December 2001 Robert P. George is the most prominent American natural law theorist writing today. During the past decade, George, who is both McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and the director of...; Tags: Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2003-01-01
John Von Neumann: John Von Neumann The Hungarian-born American mathematician John Von Neumann (1903-1957) was the originator of the theory of games and an important contributor to computer technology. John Von Neumann was born in Budapest on Dec. 28, 1903. He left Hungary in 1918 and studied at the University of Berlin and...; Tags: computer, Games, mathematics, Princeton University, PRODUCTIVITY, theory; Research articles 2003-01-01
John Forbes Nash, Jr: John Forbes Nash, Jr. Awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his pioneering work in game theory, John Nash (born 1928) distinguished himself as one of the foremost mathematical researchers and theorists of the twentieth century. Game theory was the subject of Nash's doctoral dissertation at Princeton University....; Tags: Forbes, Games, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2003-01-01
Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 - Book Reviews: Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas About Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. By Tami Davis Biddle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. 406 pages. $45.95. Reviewed by Dr. Phillip S. Meilinger (Col., USAF Ret.), author of Airwar: Theory and Practice and deputy director of the...; Tags: attack, Britain, Germany, Japan, Princeton University, professor, SECURITY, theory; Research articles 2002-12-22
Risky behaviour.: Dec 05, 2002 (Far Eastern Economic Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Daniel Kahneman, psychology professor at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002. His theory of irrational behaviour of investors has been hailed as having great explanatory power. Several funds have...; Tags: ABN AMRO, FINANCE, Princeton University, theory; Research articles 2002-12-05