"Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India" von Nicholas B. Dirks untersucht, wie das Kastensystem in Indien durch koloniale Herrschaftsstrukturen geformt und verstärkt wurde. Dirks argumentiert, dass die britische...

Why are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to this question would allow humanity to...

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many...