al News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Future of Democracy By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:26:29 -0600 Thursday, December 5, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Get your free tickets here. Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell. Harrison is an expert on the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, and contemporary Germany, and is Associate Professor of History and International Affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She is the author of the new book, After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (2019). Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the inaugural Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Kluge Center. The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed. Register for a ticket here. Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center: Don’t miss out: 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 15:23:27 -0600 Get your free tickets here. This week, on Thursday, December 5, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell on the history of the wall itself, why it fell, and how German reunification impacts today’s politics and the future of democracy. The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed. Register for a ticket here. Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited to Whistleblowing in Historical Context By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:39:26 -0600 Whistleblowing in Historical Context: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Get your free tickets here. On Tuesday, January 14, at 4pm, in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion on whistleblowing, featuring perspectives from the realms of medical research, national security, and congressional committees. The panel will feature Carl Elliott, professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota and current Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History, Allison Stanger, professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, and Emilia DiSanto, former Deputy Inspector General to the U.S. Department of State and Chief Investigative Counsel and Special Counsel to the Senate Committee on Finance. Kluge Center Director John Haskell will moderate. A reception will follow the discussion. The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed. Register for a ticket here. Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center: You Are Invited to a Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:12:41 -0600 Join Us for a Kluge Center Author Salon with Susan Schneider on Artificial Intelligence Get your free tickets here. On Thursday January 30, at 4pm in the Montpelier Room of the Madison Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion with Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation Susan Schneider. Schneider will discuss her new book, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, which is an exploration of what artificial intelligence can, and cannot, achieve. Humans may not be Earth’s most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy! are now all AIs. Given the rapid pace of progress in AI, many predict that it could advance to human-level intelligence within the next several decades. From there, it could quickly outpace human intelligence. What do these developments mean for the future of the mind? In Artificial You, Susan Schneider says that it is inevitable that AI will take intelligence in new directions, but urges that it is up to us to carve out a sensible path forward. As AI technology turns inward, reshaping the brain, as well as outward, potentially creating machine minds, it is crucial to beware. Homo sapiens, as mind designers, will be playing with “tools” they do not understand how to use: the self, the mind, and consciousness. Schneider argues that an insufficient grasp of the nature of these entities could undermine the use of AI and brain enhancement technology, bringing about the demise or suffering of conscious beings. To flourish, we must grasp the philosophical issues lying beneath the algorithms. Schneider will discuss these topics and more, with a reception to follow. The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed. Register for a ticket here. Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center: TOMORROW - Ivan Krastev on Europe's Illiberal Turn By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:43:08 -0600 It's not too late to sign up for our author salon with Ivan Krastev on The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy. Get your free tickets here. It’s happening TOMORROW, February 19, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building. Join former Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations Ivan Krastev as he is interviewed on his new book about Europe’s, and the world’s, turn towards illiberalism. A reception will follow the discussion. Get your free tickets here. The event is free, but registration is recommended. Entry is not guaranteed. Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center: Applications Now Open for New Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:15:47 -0500 Applications are now open for the Library of Congress Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking. Negotiation is vital to public policymaking in the U.S. Congress. In fact, legislative productivity is dependent on effective legislative negotiations, given the complexities of our system of separated branches with a bicameral legislature. In an effort to support scholarship in this area, the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to apply for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of congressional policymaking, with a special focus on legislative negotiations. Apply here. And check the fellowship requirements and eligibility information here. The application deadline is currently set for June 15, but we will be revisiting this deadline as the COVID-19 situation develops. Please respond to this email if you are currently applying or interested in applying for this fellowship and are having trouble meeting the deadline. Kluge staff will be in touch with you. The fellowship program is made possible by generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Full Article
al News from the John W. Kluge Center:Join us for a Conversation on the Future of Democracy with Yuval Levin By content.govdelivery.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 11:07:57 -0500 On May 13, join the John W. Kluge Center for the first in our Conversations on the Future of Democracy series featuring Yuval Levin, who will be discussing his new book, A Time to Build, a look at the critical importance of formative institutions in society, their deterioration in recent decades, and practical steps to begin addressing the problem. Find the event on May 13 at the Library’s showcase for everything you can access while the doors are closed: Library of Congress: Engage! And sign up for a free ticket to get a reminder when the event happens. Yuval Levin is a distinguished scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. Levin is also the editor-in-chief of National Affairs. Also, we’ve got a packed schedule of virtual events lined up, so stay tuned for more. Full Article
al Gurugram school boy commits suicide after girl levels allegations on him on Instagram By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 01:00 +0530 The 17-year-old boy committed suicide in Gurugram`s upscale building after a girl made serious allegations against him on Instagram. Full Article
al Aurangabad train mishap: Mortal remains of 16 migrant labourers sent to MP By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 08:12 +0530 The mortal remains of the 16 migrant labourers, who were killed after a goods train ran over them in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad on Friday, had been sent to their native state Madhya Pradesh on a special train. Full Article
al AIIMS medical experts sent to Gujarat after sharp rise in coronavirus COVID-19 cases, fatalities By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 08:19 +0530 With Gujarat reporting a large number of coronavirus COVID-19 cases and fatalities, medical experts from AIIMS, including its director Dr Randeep Guleria, have rushed to Ahmedabad to provide expert guidance to doctors there on COVID-19 management. Full Article
al Sub-Inspector, 4 Naxals killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh; 1 AK-47 rifle, 1 SLR weapon seized By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 09:17 +0530 One Chhattisgarh Police Sub Inspector (SI) lost his life and 4 banned CPI-M Maoists were killed in an encounter near Pardhoni village under Manpur police station limits on Saturday. Full Article
al ED attaches part of AJL Mumbai building worth Rs 16.38 cr; charges Moti Lal Vora By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 15:54 +0530 A portion of a nine-storey building in Mumbai's tony Bandra area, valued Rs16.38 crore, has been attached by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its money-laundering probe against the Congress-party promoted Associated Journals Limited (AJL). Full Article
al Protests in Visakhapatnam over gas leak incident, locals demand closure of LG Polymers chemical plant By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 17:48 +0530 The incident took place even as state Director General of Police DG Sawang was inspecting the vapour leak spot and talking to the management on the measures taken to restore normalcy. Full Article
al Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin claims responsibility for Handwara attack, says 'India has upper hand' — Video By Published On :: Saturday, May 09, 2020, 19:16 +0530 Almost five days after the encounter operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara that claimed lives of five security personnel including a decorate officer, the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen, headed by Syed Salahuddin, has reportedly claimed the responsibility. Full Article
al The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Against a global backdrop of problematic adherence to medical treatment, this volume addresses and provides practical solutions to the simple question: “Why don’t patients take treatments that could save their lives?”The Wiley handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagementoffers a guide to the theory, research and clinical practice of promoting patient engagement in healthcare treatment at individual, organizational and systems levels. The concept of Read More... Full Article
al Informality Revisited: Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences for urban poverty. Read More... Full Article
al Political Geography: A Critical Introduction By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Brings political geography to life—explores key concepts, critical debates, and contemporary research in the field. Political geography is the study of how power struggles both shape and are shaped by the places in which they occur—the spatial nature of political power. PoliticalGeography: A Critical Introduction helps students understand how power is related to space, place, and territory, illustrating how everyday life and the world of global conflict Read More... Full Article
al The World's Construction Mechanism: Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The interdisciplinarity between the biological and human sciences is here to serve a daring objective: to decipher, by means of a logical chain, the explanatory factors of human trajectories and imbalances between societies and nations. To do this, The World’s Construction Mechanism is based on an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics of the human species, combining the contributions of anthropology, archeology, biology, climatology, economics, geography Read More... Full Article
al Essentials of the California Verbal Learning Test: CVLT-C, CVLT-2, & CVLT3 By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Part of Wiley's Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book covers the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the CVLT-C, CVLT-II, and CVLT-3. Additionally, readers will find a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the assessment, a review of the CVLT's performance in clinical populations, and illustrative case reports. Each chapter ends with a Test Yourself section for enhanced learning. Read More... Full Article
al Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: An International Perspective By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Provides multidisciplinary coverage of stalking behavior worldwide from both academic and practical approachesPsycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: The International Perspective is a thorough, up-to-date overview of stalking perpetration and victimization in different regions of the world. This authoritative book brings together contributions from a team of leading scholars and practitioners that discuss a diverse range of interrelated Read More... Full Article
al Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: An International Perspective By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Provides multidisciplinary coverage of stalking behavior worldwide from both academic and practical approachesPsycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: The International Perspective is a thorough, up-to-date overview of stalking perpetration and victimization in different regions of the world. This authoritative book brings together contributions from a team of leading scholars and practitioners that discuss a diverse range of interrelated Read More... Full Article
al The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly, 7th Edition By www.wiley.com Published On :: 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated informationIn the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, the newest online videos, the latest mobile apps, and all the other high-tech influences can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep Read More... Full Article
al The reality of time flow: local becoming in modern physics / Richard T.W. Arthur By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 19 May 2019 07:20:37 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Thermodynamics in the quantum regime: fundamental aspects and new directions / Felix Binder, Luis A. Correa, Christian Gogolin, Janet Anders, Gerardo Adesso, editors By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 19 May 2019 07:20:37 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Optical thin films and coatings: from materials to applications / edited by Angela Piegari and François Flory By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 19 May 2019 07:20:37 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Quantum mechanics and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead / by Michael Epperson By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 07:11:36 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Quantum gravity and the functional renormalization group: the road towards asymptotic safety / Martin Reuter, Frank Saueressig By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 07:10:36 EDT Hayden Library - QC178.R49 2019 Full Article
al Neutron stars, black holes and gravitational waves / James J. Kolata By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 07:10:36 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Condensed Matter Physics: RACMP-2018: conference date, 12-13 October 2018: location, Kurukshetra, India / editors, R. K. Moudgil, Annu Sharma and Manish K. Kashyap By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 07:10:36 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al What is real?: the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics / Adam Becker By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 07:10:36 EDT Hayden Library - QC173.98.B43 2018 Full Article
al Quantum strangeness: wrestling with Bell's theorem and the ultimate nature of reality / George Greenstein ; foreword by David Kaiser By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:48:25 EDT Hayden Library - QC174.12.G7325 2019 Full Article
al Tensor-valued random fields for continuum physics / Anatoliy Malyarenko (Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden), Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 08:42:56 EDT Hayden Library - QC793.3.F5 M35 2019 Full Article
al Surface plasmon resonance sensors: a materials guide to design, characterization, optimization, and usage / Leiva Casemiro Oliveira, Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima, Carsten Thirstrup, Helmut Franz Neff By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:50:33 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Photoassociation of ultracold CsYb molecules and determination of interspecies scattering lengths / Alexander Guttridge By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:50:33 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Quantum versus classical mechanics and integrability problems: towards a unification of approaches and tools / Maciej Błaszak By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:50:33 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Excursions in ill-condensed quantum matter: from amorphous topological insulators to fractional spins / Adhip Agarwala By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:50:33 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al The Quantum Mechanics Solver: How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics / by Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:50:33 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al General relativity: a concise introduction / Steven Carlip, The University of California at Davis By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:44:58 EDT Hayden Library - QC173.55.C37 2019 Full Article
al Beyond the dynamical universe: unifying block universe physics and time as experienced / Michael Silberstein, W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitt (Elizabethtown College) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 08:44:58 EDT Hayden Library - QC174.13.S55 2018 Full Article
al The future of fusion energy / Jason Parisi, University of Oxford, UK, Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:30:37 EDT Hayden Library - QC791.P37 2019 Full Article
al Use of optical correlation techniques for characterizing scattering objects and media / Oleg V. Angelsky, Steen G. Hanson, Peter P. Maksimyak By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:30:37 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al Nanoparticle design and characterization for catalytic applications in sustainable chemistry / edited by Rafael Luque and Pepijn Prinsen By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:30:37 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al George Placzek: a nuclear physicist's odyssey / Aleš Gottvald (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Misha Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:30:37 EDT Hayden Library - QC774.P53 G65 2018 Full Article
al Statistical physics of dense plasmas / Setsuo Ichimaru By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:30:37 EDT Hayden Library - QC718.5.S78 I268 2018 Full Article
al Novel trends in rheology VIII: conference date, 30-31 July 2019: location, Zlín, Czech Republic / editors, Martin Zatloukal and Jan Musil By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:32:45 EDT Online Resource Full Article
al CERN and the Higgs boson: the global quest for the building blocks of reality / James Gillies By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:32:45 EDT Hayden Library - QC793.16.G55 2018 Full Article
al Ether and modernity: the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century / edited by Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:32:45 EDT Hayden Library - QC177.E74 2018 Full Article
al Michelson-Morley experiments: an enigma for physics and the history of science / Maurizio Consoli, Alessandro Pluchino By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 4 Aug 2019 09:32:45 EDT Hayden Library - QC173.52.C66 2019 Full Article
al Classical field theory / Horatiu Nastase (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo) By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:34:13 EDT Hayden Library - QC173.7.N37 2010 Full Article
al Topological Orders with Spins and Fermions: Quantum Phases and Computation. By library.mit.edu Published On :: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 09:32:39 EDT Online Resource Full Article
