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Bostock Library, named for board of trustees member Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries.. It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations, as well as 72,996 feet (22,249 m) of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as well as for new collectio
Duke is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding open access books. [11] Duke has provided books for the Pilot Collection. [12] The press has also published nearly 100 additional books through other open access programs, including Towards an Open Monograph Ecosystem.
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Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980), usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association.
Katherine Astrid Brading (born 1970) [1] is a philosopher of science and historian of science whose works have concerned theoretical physics, symmetry, and Émilie du Châtelet. Educated in England, she works in the US as a professor of philosophy at Duke University .
A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author. Petroski wrote over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils ...
The Social Science History Association invited bids from publishers and told the Duke University Press in June 2012 of its intent to end the agreement for the press to publish Social Science History. The association planned to seek another publisher. Duke asserted it owned the title of the journal, though not the copyright for its contents.
Center for Documentary Studies. The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit support corporation of Duke University dedicated to the documentary arts. . Having been created in 1989 through an endowment from the Lyndhurst Foundation, [1] [2] The organization’s founders were Robert Coles, William Chafe, Alex Harris, and Iris Tillman