She has written about British book publishing in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods in the study of the industry.

UNESCO: Purpose/Objectives of the Chair/UNITWIN Network

As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

FORBES: Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

If education and human capital were the keys to economic prosperity in the twentieth century, they are even more important in the twenty-first.

FORBES: Want To Reduce Income Inequality? Lower The Barriers To Talented Immigrants

Add to that an average period of unemployment for boomers of nearly one-full year and you have a large and increasingly desperate group of people competing for twenty-first century work, often equipped with only twentieth century skills.

FORBES: 10,000 Boomers a Day Need Jobs: Getting Back to Where We Once Belonged

What was unconscionable to us in South Africa in the twentieth century is just as unconscionable in the United States in the twenty-first.

FORBES: Billionaires And Charity: Give It Away Now

Americans were generally absent from the race until well into the twentieth century, and it was not until 1940 that the first American-discovered element, astatine, was announced by a team at Berkeley.

FORBES: Globalism and Technology: A Hidden Misconception That Dooms the U.S. Economy

The frequency of major hurricane strikes during the past several decades is only two-thirds the frequency of major hurricane strikes during the first half of the twentieth century.

FORBES: Harry Reid, Shawshank Redemption, And The Invention Of A Phony Global Warming Scare

In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.

FORBES: Eerily Prescient