A Wider View Of The Universe

Author : Robert Kuhn McGregor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476629155

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 Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning with only a superficial knowledge of nature—even while living at Walden Pond—he later began to study the subject more intensely in 1849. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself especially to botany and ornithology, seeking to integrate knowledge into the larger patterns of life. Independently deriving what today would be considered an ecological worldview, Thoreau devoted the last years of his writing career to nature studies, written in his own distinctive voice. In this revised edition of a standard study of Thoreau and nature, the author traces the origins and development of Thoreau’s shift in viewpoint and his painstaking efforts thereafter.

Author : Yew-Kwang Ng
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781527534773

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Evolved-God Creationism by Yew-Kwang Ng Pdf

This book answers fundamental questions not answered by either science or religion. How did our universe originate? Science says, “from the Big Bang”, but how did this come about? Religion says that it was created by God, but how did God originate? Our universe, with its relativity nature and quantum physics peculiarities, cannot exist by itself. Using five compelling axioms, this book proves that God evolved in the wider universe and created our sub-universe. Further questions like how did the wider universe come about are also answered logically.

Author : Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199603695

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The Point of View of the Universe by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer Pdf

Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.

Author : Robert Kuhn McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0252023188

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Author : Robert Kuhn McGregor
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668970

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A Wider View of the Universe by Robert Kuhn McGregor Pdf

Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning with only a superficial knowledge of nature--even while living at Walden Pond--he later began to study the subject more intensely in 1849. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself especially to botany and ornithology, seeking to integrate knowledge into the larger patterns of life. Independently deriving what today would be considered an ecological worldview, Thoreau devoted the last years of his writing career to nature studies, written in his own distinctive voice. In this revised edition of a standard study of Thoreau and nature, the author traces the origins and development of Thoreau's shift in viewpoint and his painstaking efforts thereafter.

Author : Jabez Thomas Sunderland,Brooke Herford,Frederick B. Mott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : UOM:39015068339038

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The Unitarian by Jabez Thomas Sunderland,Brooke Herford,Frederick B. Mott Pdf

Author : Joel R. Primack,Nancy Ellen Abrams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101126882

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The View From the Center of the Universe by Joel R. Primack,Nancy Ellen Abrams Pdf

In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our personal lives? The answer is revolutionary: a science-based cosmology that allows us to understand the universe as a whole and our extraordinary place in it.

Author : Gordon R. Dickson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627934596

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Alien from Arcturus by Gordon R. Dickson Pdf

Quarantine...Ever since Earth's first starship crept out on sublight drive a hundred years ago and was met by an emissary of the Galactic Federation, man has lived as a prisoner in the solar system. The Federation decreed that unless man could demonstrate his technological maturity and leave the solar system via a faster-than-light drive, he would not leave it at all. All Earth knows the test that man must pass to win Galactic Citizenship and the freedom of the stars; the FTL drive is every physicist's top priority. But what they cannot know is that they work against both an alien time-limit and human sabotage - and time is running out. Unless John Parent's star-drive project is successful, mankind will remain trapped in the solar system, forever...

Author : John Gatta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199883103

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Making Nature Sacred by John Gatta Pdf

Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond themselves. In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Whatever their theology, American writers have perennially construed the nonhuman world to be a source, in Rachel Carson's words, of "something that takes us out of ourselves." Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for "natural revelation" has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history. And it shows how the imaginative challenge of "reading" landscapes has been influenced by biblical hermeneutics. Though focused on adaptations of Judeo-Christian religious traditions, it also samples Native American, African American, and Buddhist forms of ecospirituality. It begins with Colonial New England writers such Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, re-examines pivotal figures such as Henry Thoreau and John Muir, and takes account of writings by Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and many others along the way. The book concludes with an assessment of the "spiritual renaissance" underway in current environmental writing, as represented by five noteworthy poets and by authors such as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Matthiessen, and Barry Lopez. This engaging study should appeal not only to students of literature, but also to those interested in ethics and environmental studies, religious studies, and American cultural history.

Author : Robert Osserman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307790583

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Poetry of the Universe by Robert Osserman Pdf

In the bestselling literary tradition of Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and James Watson's The Double Helix, Poetry of the Universe is a delightful and compelling narrative charting the evolution of mathematical ideas that have helped to illuminate the nature of the observable universe. In a richly anecdotal fashion, the book explores teh leaps of imagination and vision in mathematics that have helped pioneer our understanding of the world around us.

Author : Edwin Frank
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681373928

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The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics by Edwin Frank Pdf

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of the celebrated NYRB Classics series, now twenty years old. The collection brings together twenty-five pieces drawn from the more than five hundred books that have come out as NYRB Classics over the last twenty years. Stories, essays, interviews, poems, along with chapters from novels and memoirs and other longer narratives have been selected by Edwin Frank, the series editor, to chart a distinctive, entertaining, and thought-provoking course across the expansive and varied terrain of the Classics series.

Author : Joel R. Primack,Nancy Ellen Abrams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780007193523

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The View from the Centre of the Universe by Joel R. Primack,Nancy Ellen Abrams Pdf

Cosmology explains how the universe operates, what the universe is made of, where it may have come from, how it is evolving and why it makes sense that humans are on Earth at all. This book presents an original synthesis and distinctive perspective on humanity's place in the cosmos.

Author : Peter Linde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319241180

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The Hunt for Alien Life by Peter Linde Pdf

Astronomer Peter Linde takes the reader through the story of the search for extraterrestrial life in a captivating and thought-provoking way, specifically addressing the new research that is currently devoted towards discovering other planets with life. He discusses the methods used to detect possible signals from other civilizations and the ways that the space sciences are changing as a result of this new field. “Are we alone?” is a mystery that has forever fascinated mankind, gaining momentum by scientists since the 1995 discovery of the existence of exoplanets began to inspire new ways of thinking in astronomy. Here, Linde tries to answer many philosophical questions that derive from this area of research: Is humanity facing a change of paradigm, that we are not unique as intelligent beings? Is it possible to communicate with others out there, and even if we can—should we?

Author : Sean Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698409767

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The Big Picture by Sean Carroll Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it. “Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times “Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science “A tour de force.”—Salon Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview? In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level—and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000055824590

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year ... by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf