1870. United Kingdom. Scenes from a divorce. Alfred Russel Wallace, the coinventor with Darwin of the theory of evolution through natural selection, completely captivated by the melodious song of the sirens hailing spiritualism landed definitively on the controversial shores of the treason. In effect, with his essay The Limits of Natural Selection as Applied to Man, Wallace turned his back on t...

Experience shows that larg e scale distance education efforts found many ways to fail. Reasons for failure of these p rograms include lack of student acceptance, which re s u l t s in low enrollment, higher costs, and more faculty time than expected. Many programs have discounted tuition in order to attract students. For students, the lack of enthusiasm could be a result of the missing social s...

From Marco Polo to Richard Nixon, narratives of the encounter between Chinese and Westerners have been defining texts of European cultures and their descendants. Successive but sporadic reports from travellers, missionaries, diplomats, traders and others have provided a model of an alternative way of arranging people, of organizing their lives, of thinking about the state of being human; one th...