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  • Anticipatory Biographies

    Personal Histories of the Future

    by David J. Staley ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Anticipatory Biographies is a collection of future scenarios written in the form of individual biographies that span the breadth of human experience: from the privileged to the marginalized and across diverse cultures. Grounded in design fiction, futures research, anticipation science, and scenario writing, the essays in this book envision how the world will be reshaped by artificial intelligence, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Alternative Universities

    Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education

    by David J. Staley ...
    Imagining the universities of the future.How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Knowledge Towns

    Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets

    by David J. Staley, Dominic D. J. Endicott ...
    Series series Higher Education and the City
    The remote work revolution presents a unique opportunity for higher education institutions to reinvent themselves and become talent magnets.In Knowledge Towns, David J. Staley and Dominic D. J. Endicott argue that the location of a college or university is a necessary piece of any region's effort to attract remote knowledge workers and accelerate economic development and creative placemaking. Just ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Fulfilling the 21st Century Land-Grant Mission

    Essays in Honor of The Ohio State University’s Sesquicentennial Commemoration

    Edited by Stephen M Gavazzi, David J. Staley ...
    Over the past 150 years, land-grant universities—America’s first public institutions of higher learning—have had a profound impact on the well-being of our nation. Founded by the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, land-grant universities were given a three-part mission: to teach, to conduct research, and to engage communities across each state in order to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Historical Imagination

    by David J. Staley ...
    Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian.We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • History and Future

    Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future

    by David J. Staley ...
    Perhaps the most important histiographic innovation of the twentieth century was the application of the historical method to wider and more expansive areas of the past. Where historians once defined the study of history strictly in terms of politics and the actions and decisions of Great Men, historians today are just as likely to inquire into a much wider domain of the past, from the lives of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Computers, Visualization, and History

    How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past

    by David J Staley ...
    This visionary and thoroughly accessible book examines how digital environments and virtual reality have altered the ways historians think and communicate ideas and how the new language of visualization transforms our understanding of the past. Drawing on familiar graphic models--maps, flow charts, museum displays, films--the author shows how images can often convey ideas and information more ... Read more

    $66.99 USD