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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

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Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel Early Views of Inheritance

Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel Early Views of Inheritance

Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel: Early Views of Inheritance explores early theories about the mechanisms of inheritance. Beginning with Charles Darwin's now rejected Gemmule hypothesis the book documents the reception of Gregor Mendel's work on peas and follows the work of early 20th century scholars. The research of Francis Galton a cousin of Darwin and the friction it caused between these two are a part of longer story of the development of genetics and an understanding of how offspring inherit the characteristics of their parents. Bateson Garrod de Vries Tschermak and others are all characters in a scientific story of discovery acrimony cooperation and revelation. | Standing on the Shoulders of Darwin and Mendel Early Views of Inheritance

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Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view sociology's crisis has deep roots traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it impossible to systematically organize empirical observations guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines such as business administration criminal justice social work and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the new social science exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology will help to build a vigorous scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles social stratification and ethnic conflict showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge. | Crisis in Sociology The Need for Darwin

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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

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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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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley John Tyndall and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley the physicist John Tyndall and the philosopher of evolution Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour the novelist Samuel Butler and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. | Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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Awe for the Tiger Love for the Lamb A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals

Awe for the Tiger Love for the Lamb A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals

Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets thinkers philosophers scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts. Awe for the Tiger Love for the Lamb compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. From the myths of the ancient world to the Middle Ages to Darwin and beyond Preece captures the most telling and fascinating accounts of humankind's relationship to the wild world placing them in historical context. Jung called it an unconscious identity with animals while Wordsworth saw it as the primal sympathy which having been must ever be. Linking the diverse chords of human experience that are touched by the animal world Preece shows that despite a historical thread of cruelty there still remains in all humanity a constant underlying concern for other beings as an integral part of the moral community. With musings and meditations from Lao Tse to Mohammed from Plato to Jane Goodall from classical religion to parliamentary proceedings Awe for the Tiger Love for the Lamb is an original superbly researched history that deepens our understanding of all living beings. | Awe for the Tiger Love for the Lamb A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals

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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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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical and literary classic of the highest order. It is also an extremely relevant work because of its engagement with issues as alive today as in Hume’s time: the Design Argument for a deity the Problem of Evil the dangers of superstition and fanaticism the psychological roots and social consequences of religion. In this outstanding and unorthodox collection an international team of scholars engage with Hume’s classic work. The chapters include state-of-the-art contributions on the central interpretive questions posed by the Dialogues as well as major contributions relating the work to contemporary issues in Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Science Moral Psychology and Social Philosophy. Additional contributions tackle the historical and philosophical background of the Dialogues relating it to Hume’s own systematic philosophy to the work of other key seventeenth and eighteenth-century figures – Locke Clarke Bayle Cudworth Malebranche Spinoza Lord Bolingbroke and Voltaire among others – to early modern neo-Epicureanism in the life sciences and notably to what Darwin missed by thinking too much like William Paley and not enough like Hume’s Philo. Overall this volume provides fresh and even groundbreaking perspectives on Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Hume the History of Modern Philosophy Philosophy of Religion and the History and Philosophy of Science. | Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal

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Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig traces the development of phylogenetic systematics against the foil of idealistic morphology through 100 years of German biology. It starts with the iconic Ernst Haeckel—the German Darwin from Jena—and the evolutionary morphology he developed. It ends with Willi Hennig the founder of modern phylogenetic systematics. Written in English the book presents a unique perspective on a vast body of German biological literature. The book also offers a perspective on German biology in the Third Reich. The author looks at how idealistic morphology and phylogenetic systematics represented two antagonistic traditions in German biology the first organicist-holistic the latter empiricist-positivistic. In addition he explains the ways in which both traditions acquired socio-political and ideological connotations culminating in their accommodation to different strands of Nazi ideology. The book’s nine chapters summarize a century of the conceptual development of systematics describe both the history and philosophy of phylogenetic approaches to the understanding of the history of life examine the role of important people such as Haeckel Gegenbauer Portman von Bertalanffy Stresemann and Hennig and critically evaluate the impact and influence of Nazism on evolutionary biology. Chapter titles include: The Evolutionary Turn in Comparative Anatomy; Of Parts and Wholes; The Turn against Haeckel; The Rise of Holism in German Biology; The Rise of German (Aryan) Biology; Ganzheitsbiologie; The Ideological Instrumentalization of Biology; A New Beginning: From Speciation to Phylogenetics; and Grundzüge: The Conceptual Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics. | Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

GBP 56.99
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The Science of Life Andrew Huxley Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

The Science of Life Andrew Huxley Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

The Science of Life: Andrew Huxley Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow is part of the series Creative Lives and Works. It is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of 40 years the three conversations in this volume are part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines—from the social sciences the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume on two of England’s foremost physiologists and a vision scientist is yet another addition to the series of several such books. These Cambridge men of science Sir Andrew Huxley Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow apart from shaping certain very fundamental and critical elements in the disciplines of Physiology and Neuroscience also belong to illustrious lineages. Sir Andrew Huxley for instance is a direct descendant of T. H. Huxley while Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow are both the great grandsons of Charles Darwin. Their conversations greatly expand our understanding of physiology and neuroscience. The book will be of very great value not just to those interested in Physiology Medicine and Neuroscience. The interviews also take us into a fascinating period of Cambridge Science dominated by certain key families of distinguished thinkers. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan). | The Science of Life Andrew Huxley Richard Keynes and Horace Barlow

GBP 120.00
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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

GBP 18.99
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In Search of Lost Time

In Search of Lost Time

Do you know that black holes can affect time?that Stonehenge is a giant calendar?that the Oracle Bones of the North China Plain predict the phases of the moon?that the Pyramids are giant compasses?how Jonathan Swift knew that Mars had two moons when he wrote Gulliver's Travels?that the effects of black holes are described in the story of Alice in Wonderland?that an atomic reactor existed 2 billion years ago in Equatorial Africa?that an electron on the other side of the galaxy can deflect a billiard ball?that Schr dingers cat is both alive and dead?Derek York fathoms these and many other mysteries of time and space in In Search of Lost Time. A reflection of York's obsession with time and its measurement the book discusses the mind-bending universe of the special and general theories of relativity the ghostly world of quantum mechanics and the unpredictable haunts of chaos. It explores the pyramids of Egypt Stonehenge and the South China plain; the universities of Cambridge McGill and Chicago; the Patent Office in Berne; and back to the Ethiopian desert on the banks of the Awash River. Companions to share and illuminate the path range from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner. It also presents the father of master-spy Kim Philby in the Empty Quarter of Arabia the fantasist Velikovsky in the clouds and Newton Darwin Rutherford Einstein and the great Earth scientists of this century who fathomed the depths of lost time and discovered the age of the Earth. Written in an engaging nontechnical style this book will delight and amaze all who encounter it.

GBP 110.00
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Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution

First published in French in 1907 Henri Bergson’s L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation the first for over a hundred years brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers. A sympathetic though critical reader of Darwin Bergson argues in Creative Evolution against a mechanistic reductionist view of evolution. For Bergson all life emerges from a creative shared impulse which he famously terms élan vital and which passes like a current through different organisms and generations over time. Whilst this impulse remains as forms of life diverge and multiply human life is characterized by a distinctive form of consciousness or intellect. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows the intellect’s fragmentary and action- oriented nature which he likens to the cinematograph means it alone cannot grasp nature’s creativity and invention over time. A major task of Creative Evolution is to reconcile these two elements. For Bergson the answer famously lies in intuition which brings instinct and intellect together and takes us “into the very interior of life. ” A work of great rigour and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927 Creative Evolution played an important and controversial role in the trajectory of twentieth-century philosophy and continues to create significant discussion and debate. The philosopher and psychologist William James who admired Bergson’s work was writing an introduction to the first English translation of the book before his death in 1910. This new translation includes a foreword by Elizabeth Grosz and a helpful translator’s introduction by Donald Landes. Also translated for the first time are additional notes articles reviews and letters on the reception of Creative Evolution in biology mathematics and theology. This edition includes fascinating commentaries by philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty Georges Canguilhem and Gilles Deleuze.

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The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date. The Royal Society compiled instructions for the expedition and selected two full-time naturalists (an unusual naval concession to science) of whom one Henry Wemyss Feilden proved a worthy choice. Feilden was a soldier who fought in most of the wars in his lifetime including the American Civil War on the Confederate side. On board HMS Alert he kept a daily journal a record important for its scientific content but also as a view of the expedition as seen by a soldier revealing admiration and appreciation for his naval colleagues; he performed whatever tasks were given to him including the rescue of returning sledge parties stricken by scurvy. He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work on the Cape Rawson Beds was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day: in zoology Charles Darwin on evolution; in botany Hooker on phytogeography and in geology Charles Lyell’s system. He illustrated his journal with his own sketches and also enclosed the printed programmes of popular entertainments held on the ship and verses for birthdays and sledging (there was a printing press onboard). The journal gives a vigorous impression of a ship’s company well occupied through the winter then increasingly active in sledging and geographical discovery in spring before the scurvy-induced decision to head home in the summer of 1876. After his return Feilden had dealings with many scientists and their institutions finding homes for and meaning in his collections. | The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R. A. The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert 1875-1876

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