Who are the most important men and women whose notions and theories have changed the world? When Isaac Newton claimed that he only saw further because he stood on the shoulders of giants, he alluded to the long list of geniuses that came before him. The history of science is the story of great discoveries, flashes of intuition that have changed the way people see the world, hard work and arduous calculation in the laboratory. "The Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists" is a celebration of the lives and work of the men and women who have changed the way we look at the world, the universe, and ourselves.It includes contributions from top name scientists and writers such James Gleick on Richard Feynman; Michio Kaky on Einstein and Sir Harold Kroton on the Fulleriene (for which he won a Nobel Prize).
Based on consultations with nongovernmental experts around the world Managing the Global Future is the third unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the past seven years that takes a long-term view of the future. The National Intelligence Council, as a center of strategic thinking and over-the-horizon analysis for the US Government, takes this as one of its key challenges. As with the earlier NIC efforts—Global Trends 2010 and Global Trends 2015—the project's primary goal is to provide US policymakers with a view of how the world developments could evolve, identifying opportunities and potentially negative developments that might warrant policy action. We also hope this paper stimulates a broader discussion of value to educational and policy institutions at home and abroad. He consulted experts from around the world in a series of regional conferences to offer a truly global perspective. We organized conferences on five continents to solicit the views of foreign experts on the prospects for their regions over the next 15 years. Significantly, the NIC 2020 Project employed information technology and analytic tools unavailable in earlier NIC efforts. We created an interactive Web site which contained several tools including a "hands-on" computer simulation that allows novice and expert alike to develop their own scenarios. This "International Futures" model is now available to the pub.
This bibliography challenges the view that World War I was totally a masculine domain by listing and annotating hundreds of published and unpublished books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the war period. Included are: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, GB Stern, Brenda Girvin, known and unknown autobiographers and diarists, writers of pro and anti-war propaganda, journal and magazine articles, and literary, cultural and historical criticism.
The information packed volumes in the Modern World Nations series provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy and culture. Abundant full-colour illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery, while Maps reflect current political boundaries. Each volume is written by the most experienced professors teaching world regional geography.
The birth date of basketball is usually identified as 21 December 1891, with the first game taking place in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Through the years, interest in the sport has appeared in practically every country in the world and participation spread internationally.
