Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens

This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Artthat is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability, and our responsibility to preserve its wealth.
Each room in the gallery is dedicated to a single topic. The rooms on the first floor show birds as icons, birds as resources, birds as teaching tools, and more. On the second floor, the images and their captions clarify what Science Art is and how the intertwining of art and science can change the way we look at each. The authors also provide a timeline linking scientific innovations with the production of images of birds, and they offer a checklist of steps to promote the creation and accessibility of Science Art. Readers who tour this unique and fascinating gallery will never look at art depicting nature in the same way again.
Published with assistance from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program.

Science & Math

Wheye, Darryl

Kennedy, Donald

History & Philosophy

Yale University Press

A sweeping look at 30,000 years of art depicting birds—from Paleolithic images to those of the Information Age—viewed through a science lens This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual “gallery” where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art—that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability, and our responsibility to preserve its wealth.
Each room in the gallery is dedicated to a single topic. The rooms on the first floor show birds as icons, birds as resources, birds as teaching tools, and more. On the second floor, the images and their captions clarify what Science Art is and how the intertwining of art and science can change the way we look at each. The authors also provide a timeline linking scientific innovations with the production of images of birds, and they offer a checklist of steps to promote the creation and accessibility of Science Art. Readers who tour this unique and fascinating gallery will never look at art depicting nature in the same way again.
Published with assistance from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Public Understanding of Science and Technology Program.

Biological Sciences

Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray boards with dark blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean; no names, writing or marks. Illustrated in full color and with black and white drawings. Foreword by Lewis Thomas, M.D. 229 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War

History

Ehrlich, Paul R.

Roberts, Walter Orr

Sagan, Carl.

Military

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The university today is under attack from all sides. Parents and students resent the escalating costs of education and wonder where the money is being spent. Aspiring scholars feel betrayed by an institution that prepares them for nonexistent jobs. Critics on the right condemn the teachers who neglect "the canon" while critics on the left condemn the creeping corporatism on campus. Politicians seek greater control over the conduct of research and add new conditions to the use of government funds. Worst of all, the academics are increasingly uneasy in an environment that fosters competition, discourages cooperation, and has made "publish or perish" a condition of survival. 
 Donald Kennedy, the former president of Stanford University and currently a member of its faculty, has been at the front lines of the issues confounding the academy today. In this important new book, he brings his experience and concern to bear on the present state of the university. He examines teaching, graduate training, research, and their ethical context in the research university. Aware of the numerous pressures that academics face, from the pursuit of open inquiry in the midst of culture wars, to confusion and controversy over the ownership of ideas, to the scramble for declining research funds and facilities, he explores the whys and wherefores of academic misconduct, be it scholarly, financial, or personal. 
 Kennedy suggests that meaningful reform cannot take place until more rigorous standards of academic responsibility--to students, the university, and the public--are embraced by both faculty and the administration. With vision and compassion, he offers an important antidote to recent attacks from without that decry the university and the professoriate, and calls upon the college community to counter those attacks by looking within and fulfilling its duties.

Academic Duty

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Harvard University Press

The Living Cell

W.H.Freeman

'FROM CELL TO ORGANISM: READINGS FROM ''SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN'''

W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

From Cell to Organism: Readings from Scientific American

Book by Glyde, Gerald P., Kennedy, Donald

Readings in Contemporary Labor Issues

Business & Money

Glyde, Gerald P.

Economics

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

More than personal memoir, Donald Kennedy's story is not only a chronicle of watershed years in the history of Stanford University, but also a reflection on academia's perennial concerns. The story builds from his childhood and family in New England through mentors at Harvard to reflections on his early years at Stanford. What is the scope of a teacher's responsibilities? What is the proper balance between research and teaching? How far can a professor of literature stretch activism and free speech before losing tenure? How can the University look so rich and feel so poor? While biology department head, Kennedy founded Human Biology, Stanford's first interdisciplinary program. As president, issues of ethnic diversity, student activism, multicultural curricula, patent rights, divestment in South Africa, a student hostage crisis, and a major earthquake colored his pivotal years at Stanford. At the heart of Kennedy's journey has been the belief that one must give back to society as mentor, inspiring his students; as commissioner of the FDA, wrestling with issues of freedom and regulation; as editor of Science, confronting the clash of science and politics. Throughout the book, sidebar recollections from students, friends, and colleagues reflect on his caring encouragement and core humanity, his love of teaching, and a life profoundly committed to science and public service.

A Place in the Sun: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Stanford University Libraries

The Last of Your Springs

Stanford Historical Society

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