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PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market."
Planners are discovering that regenerating the city is much harder and slower than the last generation believed, that to work, it must be a building- by-building, street-by-street evolution. The planning for New York's new Battery Park City development, for instance, quite nicely incorporates many of the...
Now, while quoting Montesquieu's dictum that a "rational army would run away," Keegan has undertaken a kind of sequel that shrewdly explores the various ways in which a gifted commander can not only steel men for battle but lead them to victory as well. Once again he has chosen...
About each of his four characters, Keegan poses a fundamental question: Did he believe that it was necessary for a commander to fight at the head of his soldiers? Keegan's answers: Alexander always, Wellington often, Grant no more % than necessary, Hitler never. Keegan attributes this chronological evolution to the...
If the findings are accurate, ideas about atmospheric evolution might have to be revised. The two admit the results "are still very preliminary," but they insist the method is sound.