New perspectives on global intellectual history

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

New perspectives on Beringian Quaternary paleogeography, stratigraphy, and glacial history

Aspects of the paleogeography, stratigraphy, and glacial history of Beringia have been greatly revised over the past 15}20 yr. Access to North East Russia, in particular, has provided the opportunity to evaluate the Beringia landscape as a contiguous subcontinent during the Quaternary. For the "rst time, new research has made clearer the connection between tectonic forces and the submergence of...

New perspective: History of the Perspectives series

In the May 1998 issue, then editor Olaf Andersen introduced to the Journal of General Physiology a novel publication form, the Perspectives in General Physiology (JGP 111:615). The stated purpose of the Perspectives is “to provide a forum where scientific uncertainties or controversies can be discussed in an authoritative yet open manner.” After that initial Perspective on “Molecular Identity o...

Local and Global Perspectives on the New U.S. Farm Policy

The reaction of U.S. farm groups and our trading partners to the new farm bill has been surprisingly frank and sometimes harsh. Many farm groups have given up the argument that farm subsidies are temporary measures needed until good times return. For example, Mississippi Delta cotton farmer Kenneth Hood (who is also chairman of the National Cotton Council) was recently quoted in the Wall Street...