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Author : David M. Harland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1852333758
Distinguished space historian Harland tells an inspiring tale of scientific discovery with two interwoven strands tracing the earths geological history and the Earth in relation to the solar system. 100 illustrations.
Author : Chad J. McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351568081
Because of the complexity involved in understanding the environment, the choices made about environmental issues are often incomplete. In a perfect world, those who make environmental decisions would be armed with a foundation about the broad range of issues at stake when making such decisions. Offering a simple but comprehensive understanding of the critical roles science, economics, and values play in making informed environmental decisions, Environmental Decision-Making in Context: A Toolbox provides that foundation. The author highlights a primary set of intellectual tools from different disciplines and places them into an environmental context through the use of case study examples. The case studies are designed to stimulate the analytical reasoning required to employ environmental decision-making and ultimately, help in establishing a framework for pursuing and solving environmental questions, issues, and problems. They create a framework individuals from various backgrounds can use to both identify and analyze environmental issues in the context of everyday environmental problems. The book strikes a balance between being a tightly bound academic text and a loosely defined set of principles. It takes you beyond the traditional pillars of academic discipline to supply an understanding of the fundamental aspects of what is actually involved in making environmental decisions and building a set of skills for making those decisions.
Author : Dirk L. Couprie,Robert Hahn,Gérard Naddaf,Gerard Naddaf
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791455378
Places the development of Anaximander's thought within social, political, cosmological, astronomical, and technological contexts.
Author : Alexander J. Hahn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781421422305
A new approach to teaching calculus that uses historical examples and draws on applications from science and engineering. Breaking the mold of existing calculus textbooks, Calculus in Context draws students into the subject in two new ways. Part I develops the mathematical preliminaries (including geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and coordinate geometry) within the historical frame of the ancient Greeks and the heliocentric revolution in astronomy. Part II starts with comprehensive and modern treatments of the fundamentals of both differential and integral calculus, then turns to a wide-ranging discussion of applications. Students will learn that core ideas of calculus are central to concepts such as acceleration, force, momentum, torque, inertia, and the properties of lenses. Classroom-tested at Notre Dame University, this textbook is suitable for students of wide-ranging backgrounds because it engages its subject at several levels and offers ample and flexible problem set options for instructors. Parts I and II are both supplemented by expansive Problems and Projects segments. Topics covered in the book include: • the basics of geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and coordinate geometry and the historical, scientific agenda that drove their development • a brief, introductory calculus from the works of Newton and Leibniz • a modern development of the essentials of differential and integral calculus • the analysis of specific, relatable applications, such as the arc of the George Washington Bridge; the dome of the Pantheon; the optics of a telescope; the dynamics of a bullet; the geometry of the pseudosphere; the motion of a planet in orbit; and the momentum of an object in free fall. Calculus in Context is a compelling exploration—for students and instructors alike—of a discipline that is both rich in conceptual beauty and broad in its applied relevance.
Author : Armin Lange,Emanuel Tov,Matthias Weigold
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004194205
With nearly all Dead Sea Scrolls published, this collection of essays integrates this very important corpus of ancient texts into the study of Hebrew Bible, ancient and rabbinic Judaism as well as early Christian and other ancient literatures, languages, and cultures.
Author : Meelis Friedenthal,Hanspeter Marti,Robert Seidel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004436206
This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.
Author : Craig Alan Evans,James A. Sanders,Šěmaryahū Ṭalmōn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004108351
This collection of studies is in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and intertextuality. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study.
Author : Cynthia F. Wong,Hülya Y?ld?z
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317109426
Bringing together an international group of scholars, this collection offers a fresh assessment of Kazuo Ishiguro’s evolving significance as a contemporary world author. The contributors take on a range of the aesthetic and philosophical themes that characterize Ishiguro’s work, including his exploration of the self, family, and community; his narrative constructions of time and space; and his assessments of the continuous and discontinuous forces of history, art, human psychology, and cultural formations. Significantly, the volume attends to Ishiguro’s own self-identification as an international writer who has at times expressed his uneasiness with being grouped together with British novelists of his generation. Taken together, these rich considerations of Ishiguro’s work attest to his stature as a writer who continues to fascinate cultural and textual critics from around the world.
Author : Rüdiger Braun,Hüseyin I. Cicek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443892735
In recent years, the challenge of relating one’s own theological concept of man and his destiny to secular topics, such as the inviolability of human dignity, has generated a dynamic discourse about how Islamic anthropology can help cultivate and perfect the individual self and social ‘humanisation’. This anthology brings together contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to the secular notion of human dignity with reference to the Islamic tradition in general and the anthropology of the Qur’ān in particular. The collection presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology, across a range of fields, especially with regard to the narrative of Adam and Iblīs, which occurs in all monotheistic traditions. It focuses on the specific ‘grammars’ of anthropological narratives at the levels of the canonical text of the Qur’ān itself (Section I) and the interpretations that focus on its performative discourse (Section II). Further to this, the normative implications of the human images that are derived from the canonical text and its interpretations are discussed in Section III. The dynamic interdependencies between the hermeneutics of the Qur’ān, theological anthropology and legal philosophy, particularly in the European context, are a promising field of research that not only allows a deeper insight into the multiperspectivity and indexicality of theological anthropology, but also has the potential to facilitate the long-overdue discursive cooperation and rapprochement between Muslim and non-Muslim scholarship.
Author : J'annine Jobling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351740388
This title was first published in 2002: The premise of the text is that there is a continuing need for biblical hermeneutic propsals and frameworks which emerge from the fields of both feminism and Christian theology. Feminism, the author asserts, demands not only the plotting of new routes but the restructuring of entire landscapes. As such this project, since it seeks to develop a feminist theological frame for meaning, impinges on and is impacted by innumerable inter-relating questions. In consequence, the scope of the book is necessarily both broad and interdisiplinary. The author, J'annine Jobling, uses particular texts and has articulated her own positions in response. In this way the embodied practice of thinking-in-relation is mirrored in the texts produced. This has determined the macro-structure of the thesis, which is based on an analysis of two feminist biblical scholars: Elisabeth Schussler Fionenza and Phyllis Trible. From this analysis Jobling identifies two primary principles for interpretation: rememberance and destabilization. This is a strategy which allows both materialist and post-structuralist perspectives to be set into play, each of which has vital contributions to make to feminist enterprises. The "Bible" is understood as matrix, as a set of discourses which are permeable to and intersect with other cultural discourses. The task of feminist interpretation is then to reconstitute the heterogenous biblical matrix in feminist horizons. A fundamental tenet of the book is that hermeneutics inhabits particular metaphysical constructs. Therefore, the argument extends from an interpretation of the Bible to an epistemological framework in which an eschatological hereneutic is recommended, to a metaphysical framework which takes eschatology as its structuring principle. The author argues that it is eschatology which can provide the resources for an ontological model radically disruptive of a metaphysics of presence, and in which it is possible to discern the traces of God. From this outermost limit of the author's hermeneutic investigations, the text returns to the centre: the feminist discursive community and develops a construct that the ekklesia, as a feminist deliberative space set oppositionally to structures, worldviews and idealogies operates on patriarchal logics. The relationship of this "imagined community" is compared to the Christian Church and scripture, ethics and gendered identity within a logic of equity.
Author : Gary Dwyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9780980030129
Author : Kaspar von Greyerz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Creation
ISBN : 9780192864369
Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is an English-language monograph which studies the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.--
Author : Steven L. Wiebe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cosmogony
ISBN : 0820488275
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Bertie J. Weddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108986502
This comprehensive book promotes understanding of the past challenges to and current opportunities in the conservation of the natural world.
Author : Irene Belyeu
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781600341212