MEDITERRANEAN CLASSICISM AND SCULPTURE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century

As man is now changing the composition of the atmosphere at a rate which must be very exceptional on the geological time scale, it is natural to seek for the probable effects of such a change. From the best laboratory observations it appears that the principal result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide would be a gradual increase in the mean temperature of the colder regions of the earth. ...

Segregation and Homeownership in the Early Twentieth Century

Racial gaps in homeownership over the past century in the United States have profound implications for black-white gaps in wealth, health, education, and public goods. Closely related to these gaps are patterns of residential sorting on the basis of race. We use new county-level segregation estimates for the period of 1880 to 1940 combined with homeownership data from the federal census to docu...

Interpreting Probability Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century

A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Interpreting probability : controversies and developments in the early twentieth century / David Howie. p. cm. – (Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents Acknowledgments page xi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The meaning of probability 1 1.2 The history o...

Field Experiments in Class Size from the Early Twentieth Century