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Author: Massimo Pigliucci
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Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0465021387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci uses the combination of science and philosophy to answer questions about morality, love, friendship, justice, and politics.
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009-07-24
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 0007338805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series.
Author: Diana Lobel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0231153147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLobel crosses Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. This title does not treat philosophy as an abstract, theoretical discipline but as living experience.
Author: Carol E. Cleland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-09-12
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 052187324X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores fundamental philosophical and scientific questions about the nature of life, particularly in relation to the search for extraterrestrial life.
Author: Edward Dolnick
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0465094961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life were a colossal mystery. The Seeds of Life is the remarkable and rollicking story of how a series of blundering geniuses and brilliant amateurs struggled for two centuries to discover where, exactly, babies come from. Taking a page from investigative thrillers, acclaimed science writer Edward Dolnick looks to these early scientists as if they were detectives hot on the trail of a bedeviling and urgent mystery. These strange searchers included an Italian surgeon using shark teeth to prove that female reproductive organs were not 'failed' male genitalia, and a Catholic priest who designed ingenious miniature pants to prove that frogs required semen to fertilize their eggs. A witty and rousing history of science, The Seeds of Life presents our greatest scientists struggling-against their perceptions, their religious beliefs, and their deep-seated prejudices-to uncover how and where we come from.
Author: Bill Missett
Publisher: Author House
Published: 2005-10-18
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1438906919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I am absolutely in awe of your book. It is an extraordinarily important work. It will, I humbly suggest, change many lives." -- Joseph W. Dunn, Jr., Editor, A.R.E. Press *** "I believe Awakening the Soul (Book 3) is the key to the 12th Step" (of Alcoholics Anonymous) - Susana K., Oregon *** "We all agree on the brilliance of this work." -- Lisa Hagan, literary agent, Paraview, Inc.
Author: Bernard Cornwell
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0062198971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernard Cornwell, the "master of martial fiction" (Booklist), brings Thomas of Hookton from the popular Grail Quest series into a new adventure in 1356, a thrilling stand-alone novel. On September 19, 1356, a heavily outnumbered English army faced off against the French in the historic Battle of Poitiers. In 1356, Cornwell resurrects this dramatic and bloody struggle—one that would turn out to be the most decisive and improbable victory of the Hundred Years’ War, a clash where the underdog English not only the captured the strategic site of Poitiers, but the French King John II as well. In the vein of Cornwell’s bestselling Agincourt, 1356 is an action-packed story of danger and conquest, rich with military strategy and remarkable characters—both villainous and heroic—transporting readers to the front lines of war while painting a vivid picture of courage, treachery, and combat.
Author: Sharon Kaye
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781930972384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Philip Wogaman
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2010-12-24
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1611642914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated survey of Christian ethics addresses major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. A broad range of topics is discussed, including the biblical and philosophical legacies of Christian ethics and ethics through the early, medieval, Reformation, Enlightenment, and modern eras. This new edition contains more extensive discussions of ethics in the twentieth century, including Vatican II, ecumenical social ethics, and Orthodox Christian ethics. A new section, "Toward the Third Millennium," looks at the issues we will face in the coming decades, including medical, scientific, and political dilemmas, and issues of terrorism, war, and peace.
Author: Jean De Groot
Publisher: Parmenides Publishing
Published: 2014-02-05
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1930972849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Aristotle's Empiricism, Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle's natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored and shows that much of Aristotle's analysis of natural movement is influenced by the logic and concepts of mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian Physical Problems XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics in Aristotle's time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian Mechanics. She shows the influence of kinematic thinking on Aristotle's concept of power or potentiality, which she sees as having a physicalistic meaning originating in the problem of movement.De Groot identifies the source of early mechanical knowledge in kinesthetic awareness of mechanical advantage, showing the relation of Aristotle's empiricism to more ancient experience. The book sheds light on the classical Greek understanding of imitation and device, as it questions both the claim that Aristotle's natural philosophy codifies opinions held by convention and the view that the cogency of his scientific ideas depends on metaphysics.
