Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- THE DEATH OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION -- THE ORIGIN OF PRIMORDIAL LIFE -- CELL THEORY -- THE PROBLEM OF THE ORIGIN OF CELLS -- THE PROTOPLASM CONCEPT -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF OTHER SCIENCES -- GERM THEORY -- DISCOVERIES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE AND ANESTHESIA -- ADVANCES AT THE END OF THE CENTURY -- GENETICS -- ANCIENT THEORIES OF PANGENESIS AND BLOOD IN HEREDITY -- PREFORMATION AND NATURAL SELECTION -- THE WORK OF MENDEL -- HOW THE GENE IDEA BECAME REALITY -- THE DISCOVERY OF LINKED GENES -- EARLY MOLECULAR GENETICS -- DNA AND THE GENETIC CODE -- RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY AND THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION -- EVOLUTION -- THE WORK OF CHARLES DARWIN -- THE DARWINIAN AFTERMATH -- THE SYNTHETIC THEORY -- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES -- ECOLOGY -- Chapter 2: MATHEMATICS AND THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES -- ARABIC NUMERALS -- THE CALCULUS -- THE PRECALCULUS PERIOD -- NEWTON AND LEIBNIZ -- THE ATOMIC THEORY -- THE ROOTS OF ASTRONOMY -- THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION -- A PREPONDERANCE OF THEORIES -- GRAVITATIONAL THEORY -- SPECIAL RELATIVITY -- LIGHT AND THE ETHER -- EINSTEIN'S GEDANKENEXPERIMENTS -- STARTING POINTS AND POSTULATES -- RELATIVISTIC SPACE AND TIME -- COSMIC SPEED LIMIT -- GENERAL RELATIVITY -- PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE -- CURVED SPACE-TIME AND GEOMETRIC GRAVITATION -- QUANTUM MECHANICS -- PLANCK'S RADIATION LAW -- EINSTEIN AND THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT -- BOHR'S THEORY OF THE ATOM -- SCATTERING OF X-RAYS -- BROGLIE'S WAVE HYPOTHESIS -- THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE: THE BIG BANG THEORY -- THE EVOLUTION OF STARS AND THE FORMATION OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS -- SOLAR-SYSTEM ASTRONOMY -- PLATE TECTONICS -- ALFRED WEGENER AND THE CONCEPT OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- ISOSTASY -- DRIVING FORCES -- EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE HYPOTHESIS.

PALEOMAGNETISM, POLAR WANDERING, AND CONTINENTAL DRIFT -- GESTATION AND BIRTH OF PLATE TECTONIC THEORY -- DETERMINATION OF PLATE THICKNESS -- PLATE-DRIVING MECHANISMS AND THE ROLE OF THE MANTLE -- GEOLOGIC TIME -- KNOWLEDGE OF LANDFORMS AND OF LAND-SEA RELATIONS -- PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY -- WILLIAM SMITH AND FAUNAL SUCCESSION -- CHARLES LYELL AND UNIFORMITARIANISM -- LOUIS AGASSIZ AND THE ICE AGE -- GEOLOGIC TIME AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH -- Chapter 3: THE ARTS -- PERSPECTIVE -- ABSTRACT ART -- IMPRESSIONISM -- EXPRESSIONISM -- THE VISUAL ARTS -- LITERATURE AND DRAMA -- OTHER ARTS -- CUBISM -- ORIGINS OF THE STYLE -- THE FIRST PHASE -- THE SECOND PHASE: ANALYTICAL CUBISM -- THE THIRD PHASE: SYNTHETIC CUBISM -- MODERNISM -- MODERNISM IN LITERATURE -- MODERNISM IN OTHER ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE -- HARMONY -- THE ROOTS OF HARMONY -- HARMONY BEFORE THE COMMON PRACTICE PERIOD -- CLASSICAL WESTERN HARMONY -- MONTAGE -- THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE -- DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE -- DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE THEORY OF ART -- FUNCTIONALISM -- THE ART OF BUILDING -- "COMMODITY, FIRMNESS, AND DELIGHT": THE ULTIMATE SYNTHESIS -- GREEN ARCHITECTURE -- THE RISE OF ECO-AWARENESS -- GREEN DESIGN TAKES ROOT -- THE PRINCIPLES OF BUILDING GREEN -- THE CHALLENGES TO ARCHITECTURE -- URBAN PLANNING -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN PLANNING -- URBAN FORM -- THE SCOPE OF PLANNING -- Chapter 4: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION -- MASS PRODUCTION -- THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND EARLY DEVELOPMENTS -- PIONEERS OF MASS PRODUCTION METHODS -- MANUFACTURING PIONEERS -- THEORIES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT -- PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES -- PIAGET'S THEORY -- LEARNING THEORY -- PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY -- SCREEN MEMORIES -- THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS -- FURTHER THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- CONSCIENCE -- SIN -- SOUL.

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- THE PROBLEM -- THEISTIC RESPONSES -- JUST WAR -- NATURAL LAW -- PUNISHMENT -- THEORIES AND OBJECTIVES OF PUNISHMENT -- PUNISHMENT IN ISLAMIC LAW -- PUNISHMENT IN ASIAN SOCIETIES -- UTOPIA -- MONOTHEISM -- Chapter 5: POLITICS AND THE LAW -- NEUTRALITY -- DUE PROCESS -- DEMOCRACY -- HISTORY -- CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS -- EQUAL PROTECTION -- INTERNATIONAL LAW -- DEFINITION AND SCOPE -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND MUNICIPAL LAW -- SOCIAL CONTRACT -- ABSOLUTISM -- NATIONALISM -- THE IDENTIFICATION OF STATE AND PEOPLE -- CULTURAL NATIONALISM -- EUROPEAN NATIONALISM -- ASIAN AND AFRICAN NATIONALISM -- INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW -- THE EMERGENCE OF INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW -- INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES -- THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AND INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY LAW -- ECONOMIC AND ETHICAL ISSUES -- THEORETICAL DEBATES -- TRENDS -- Glossary -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.