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God After Darwin 1E

God After Darwin 1E

Argues that both evolutionism and creationism rely too heavily on notions of underlying order and design. Instead of focusing on the idea of novelty in human experience novelty as a necessary component of evolution and as the essence of divine Mystery. . In God After Darwin John Haught argues that the ongoing debate between Darwinian evolutionists and Christian apologists is fundamentally misdirected: both sides persist in focusing upon an explanation of underlying design and order in the universe. Haught suggests that what is lacking in both of these competing ideologies is the notion of novelty a necessary component of evolution and the essence of the unfolding of divine Mystery. He argues that Darwin’s disturbing picture of life instead of being hostile to religion - as scientific skeptics and many believers have thought it to be - actually provides a most fertile setting for mature reflection on the idea of God. Solidly grounded in scholarship Haught’s explanation of the relationship between theology and evolution is both accessible and engaging. | God After Darwin 1E

GBP 36.99
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The Roots of Modern Environmentalism

The Roots of Modern Environmentalism

Originally published in 1984 The Roots of Modern Environmentalism provides a historical philosophical and ideological background to environmentalism. Topics covered include the roots of technological environmentalism the medieval cosmology and Bacon’s philosophy the non-scientific roots of ecological environmentalism such as Romanticism and its scientific roots in the theories of Malthus and Darwin. The Marxist perspective on Nature is also discussed. The concluding chapter is a criticism of education which challenges its usefulness as an agent of socio-economic change. This book will be of interest to academics and students of environmentalism and geography.

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Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model one of the most authoritative persuasion theories. The book’s analysis concentrates on the expression of cues or cognitive mental shortcuts in Darwin-sceptic and counter-creationist broadcasts. A multiyear collection of media generated by the most prominent Darwin-sceptic organizations is surveyed along with rival publications from supporters of evolutionary theory described as the pro-evolutionists. The analysed materials include works produced by Young Earth Creationist and Intelligent Design media makers New Atheist pacesetters as well as both agnostic and religious supporters of evolution. These cues are shown to function as subtle but effective means of shaping public opinion including appeals to expertise claims that ideas are being censored and the tactical use of statistics and technical jargon. Contending that persuasive mass media is a decisive component of science-religion controversies this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion Science and Religion interactions as well as researchers of Media and Communication Studies more generally. *Winner ISSR 2021 Book Prize* | Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

GBP 38.99
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Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment

Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: philosophers such as Rousseau Kant Spinoza and Heidegger activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai literary giants such as Virgil Goethe and Wordsworth major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi eminent scientists such as Darwin Lovelock and E. O. Wilson. Lucid scholarly and informative the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankind’s view and understanding of the natural world.

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The Birth of Intertextuality The Riddle of Creativity

The Birth of Intertextuality The Riddle of Creativity

Why was the term ‘intertextuality’ coined? Why did its first theorists feel the need to replace or complement those terms – of quotation allusion echo reference influence imitation parody pastiche among others – which had previously seemed adequate and sufficient to the description of literary relations? Why especially in view of the fact that it is still met with resistance did the new concept achieve such popularity so fast? Why has it retained its currency in spite of its inherent paradoxes? Since 1966 when Kristeva defined every text as a ‘mosaic of quotations’ ‘intertextuality’ has become an all-pervasive catchword in literature and other humanities departments; yet the notion as commonly used remains nebulous to the point of meaninglessness. This book seeks to shed light on this thought-provoking but treacherously polyvalent concept by tracing the theory’s core ideas and emblematic images to paradigm shifts in the fields of science philosophy psychoanalysis and linguistics focusing on the shaping roles of Darwin Nietzsche Freud Saussure and Bakhtin. In so doing it elucidates the meaning of one of the most frequently used terms in contemporary criticism thereby providing a much-needed foundation for clearer discussions of literary relations across the discipline and beyond. | The Birth of Intertextuality The Riddle of Creativity

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Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA

Creating Intelligent Content with Lightweight DITA documents the evolution of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) – a widely used open standard for structuring technical content. DITA has grown in popularity and features since its origins as an internal grammar for structuring technical documentation at IBM. This book introduces Lightweight DITA (LwDITA which should be read as Lightweight DITA) as a proposed version of the DITA standard that reduces its dependence on complex Extensible Markup Language (XML) structures and simplifies its authoring experience. This volume aims to reconcile discrepancies and similarities in methods for authoring content in industry and academia and does so by reporting on DITA’s evolution through the lens of computational thinking which has been connected in scholarship and media to initiatives for learning to code and programming. Evia’s core argument is that if technical communicators are trained with principles of rhetorical problem solving and computational thinking they can create structured content in lightweight workflows with XML HTML5 and Markdown designed to reduce the learning curve associated with DITA and similar authoring methodologies. At the same time this book has the goal of making concepts of structured authoring and intelligent content easier to learn and teach in humanities-based writing and communication programs. This book is intended for practitioners and students interested in structured authoring or the DITA standard.

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Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

The Romantic age though often associated with free erotic expression was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The delineation of what could and could not be said and done in the name of physical pleasure was of a piece with the capitalist consecration of the social trust to the individual profit-motive. Both these practices moreover presupposed a determinate self with sovereignty over its own interests. Writings from and about some nominally public institutions were thus characterized by privatism—a sexual economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness. Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted wittingly and unwittingly successfully and unsuccessfully in such Romantic publics as rape-law sodomy-law adultery-law high-profile scandals the population debates and club-culture. It includes readings of imaginative literature by William Beckford William Blake Erasmus Darwin Mary Hays Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft; works of political economy by Jeremy Bentham William Cobbett William Godwin William Hazlitt and Thomas Robert Malthus; as well as contemporary legal treatises popular journalism and satirical pamphlets. | Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One

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A History of Western Science The Basics

A History of Western Science The Basics

A History of Western Science: The Basics offers a short introduction to the history of Western science that is accessible to all through avoiding technical language and mathematical intricacies. A coherent narrative of how science developed in interaction with society over time is also provided in this comprehensive guide. The first part discusses the period up to 1700 with a focus on the conceptual shift and new ideas about nature that occurred in early modern Europe. Part two focusses on the practical and institutional aspects of the scientific enterprise and discusses how science established itself in Western society post 1700s while part three discusses how during the same period modern science has impacted our general view of the world and reviews some of the major discoveries and debates. Key topics discussed in the book include: Natural philosophy medicine and mathematics in the ancient and medieval worlds The key figures in the history of science—Galileo Descartes Isaac Newton Darwin and Einstein—as well as lesser-known men and women who have developed the field The development of scientific instruments the transformation of alchemy into chemistry weights and measures the emergence of the modern hospital and its effects on medicine and the systematic collection of data on meteorology volcanism and terrestrial magnetism The big questions – the origins of humans the nature of reality and the impact of science. As a jargon-free and comprehensive study of the history of Western science this book is an essential introductory guide for academics and researchers of the history of science as well as general readers interested in learning more about the field. | A History of Western Science The Basics

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