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Author : James Trefil
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0395877407
Explores scientific questions on a variety of topics including astronomy, genetics, geology, and information technology.
Author : James S. Trefil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0304349550
Author : James S. Trefil
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1417629525
Offers a look at the most pressing questions in science today, including the likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence and of a medicinal cure for tumors
Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780609801093
Lists all the resources needed to create a balanced curriculum for homeschooling--from preschool to high school level.
Author : C. John Collins
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433516726
Many believers worry that science undermines the Christian faith. Instead of fearing scientific discovery, Jack Collins believes that Christians should delight in the natural world and study it. God's truth will stand against any challenge and will enrich the very scientific studies that we fear. Collins first defines faith and science, shows their relation, and explains what claims each has concerning truth. Then he applies the biblical teaching on creation to the topics of "conflict" between faith and science, including the age of the earth, evolution, and miracles. He considers what it means to live in a created world. This book is for anyone looking for a Christian engagement with science without technical jargon.
Author : Jim Davies
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781137438140
Why do some things pass under the radar of our attention, but other things capture our interest? Why do some religions catch on and others fade away? What makes a story, a movie, or a book riveting? Why do some people keep watching the news even though it makes them anxious? The past 20 years have seen a remarkable flourishing of scientific research into exactly these kinds of questions. Professor Jim Davies' fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to superstition. Compelling things fit our minds like keys in the ignition, turning us on and keeping us running, and yet we are often unaware of what makes these "keys" fit. What we like and don't like is almost always determined by subconscious forces, and when we try to consciously predict our own preferences we're often wrong. In one study of speed dating, people were asked what kinds of partners they found attractive. When the results came back, the participants' answers before the exercise had no correlation with who they actually found attractive in person! We are beginning to understand just how much the brain makes our decisions for us: we are rewarded with a rush of pleasure when we detect patterns, as the brain thinks we've discovered something significant; the mind urges us to linger on the news channel or rubberneck an accident in case it might pick up important survival information; it even pushes us to pick up People magazine in order to find out about changes in the social structure.Drawing on work from philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, psychology, economics, computer science, and biology, Davies offers a comprehensive explanation to show that in spite of the differences between the many things that we find compelling, they have similar effects on our minds and brains.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780385674508
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Author : Arthur Michael Saltzman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Essays
ISBN : 1570037078
Reflections on life and literature flavored with wit and wordplay from a master of the form
Author : Martin Schoenhals,Joseph E. Behar
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 158684069X
Author : James P. Collman
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1891389092
Examines the scientific facts behind claims about the safety or dangers of organic and commercial foods, natural herbs, modern medicine, and the environment.
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch,Joseph F. Kett,James Trefil,James S. Trefil
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618226478
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
Author : Robert Ehrlich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780691094953
Publisher description: Robert Ehrlich evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science. In the process, he demonstrates in easy-to-understand terms how to weigh an argument, judge someone's use of statistics, identify underlying assumptions, and ferret out secret agendas.
Author : Brad Harrub,Bert Thompson
Publisher : Apologetics Press Inc.
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Human evolution
ISBN : 9780932859587
Ever since Charles Darwin first published The Origin of Species on November 24, 1859, the subject of origins has been one of the most controversial topics around. Sadly, it also is a subject that is fraught with erroneous theories and concepts. Most students today are taught that organic evolution is not a theory, but a "fact" that all "reputable scientists" accept. Disclaimers from the evolutionary community notwithstanding, such a claim is, quite simply, wrong. We believe it is time for someone to offer what renowned news commentator Paul Harvey would call "the rest of the story." That is what The Truth About Human Origins does. It tells the rest of the story as it discusses the scientific facts about mankind's beginning. For example, it investigates the "record of the rocks" as that record relates to human evolution. It demonstrates how evolutionary theory is unable to explain things like the origin of gender and sexual reproduction, the origin of language and communication, the origin of the brain, the mind, and human consciousness, and the origin of skin colors and blood types. It also examines in an in-depth fashion the so-called "molecular evidence" of human evolution.
Author : Zvi Lanir
Publisher : Emotional Inheritance
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781775594239
We live longer than ever before. Let this life-changing book show you how to make the most of your ‘wisdom years’. We are now experiencing one of the most significant — but not yet fully understood — revolutions in human life: the dramatic rise in life expectancy. This revolution does not imply, as most people usually think, that we’ve simply got more years of old age. Rather, it implies the formation of a new period in human life: the Age of Wisdom. This age is qualitatively different from the adulthood that precedes it and the old age that follows. People who are able to prepare themselves for this new age will be able to enjoy an active, wise and satisfying stage of life, which will enable them to delay their ‘old age’ to the very end of their life. The Wisdom Years provides a practical, thought-provoking and life-changing read for both people embarking on retirement as well as younger people who would like to mindfully prepare themselves in advance. Derived from Dr Lanir’s lifetime of work experience in identifying mindsets that are no longer helpful or relevant to current reality, it reveals how we can reframe our thought processes and mind set so that we can live life based on our ‘functional age’ rather than our ‘chronological age’. The result is a book that carries a unique and inspiring message: life after retirement is to be enjoyed as a new, exciting and uplifting journey of personal evolution.
Author : Maria Burguete,Lui Lam
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812835932
All earnest and honest human quests for knowledge are efforts to understand Nature, which includes both human and nonhuman systems, the objects of study in science. Thus, broadly speaking, all these quests are in the science domain. The methods and tools used may be different; for example, the literary people use mainly their bodily sensors and their brain as the information processor, while natural scientists may use, in addition, measuring instruments and computers. Yet, all these activities could be viewed in a unified perspective ? they are scientific developments at varying stages of maturity and have a lot to learn from each other.That ?everything in Nature is part of science? was well recognized by Aristotle, da Vinci and many others. Yet, it is only recently, with the advent of modern science and experiences gathered in the study of statistical physics, complex systems and other disciplines, that we know how the human-related disciplines can be studied scientifically.Science Matters is about all human-dependent knowledge, wherein humans (the material system of Homo sapiens) are studied scientifically from the perspective of complex systems. It includes all the topics covered in the humanities and social sciences. Containing contributions from knowledgeable humanists, social scientists and physicists, the book is intended for those ? from artists to scientists ? who are curious about the world and are interested in understanding it with a unified perspective.