Among the many challenges confronting the liberal arts today is a fundamental disconnect between the curricula that many institutions offer and the training that many students need. Discipline-specific models of teaching and learning can underprepare students for the kinds of interdisciplinary collaboration that employers now expect. Although aware of these expectations and the need for change, many small colleges and universities have struggled to translate interdisciplinarity into progra...

We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directly experienced. Most are grounded in particular places—Stalingrad, Halberstadt, Budapest, ...

All you need is laugh - alles was Du brauchst ist ein Lachen. Denn Lachen entspannt, es ist gesund und macht heiter. Lachen hilft gegen Depressionen und Burnout, es stärt das Immunsystem, es ist der Kitt jeder Liebe und Partnerschaft. Wir erfahren, warum Menschen lachen und die Evolution das Lachen erfunden hat. Wir hören dazu lachende Hunde und Ratten, belauschen einen Embryo wie er das Lachen der Mutter erlebt und lassen uns von Menschen während eines Lachanfalls anstecken. Deswetieren l...