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Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

This interesting book reviews WMAP s main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the age of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on Cosmic Numbers , it is shown that, as a result of the...

Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians

Lexington Books, 2009

When Evangelical Christian and Muslim scholars meet to dialogue, to explore the interface between their perspectives, and to deepen the shared understandings, common resources, and relationships, they discover that they have much to talk about.

There is much that is shared in common. Both take their Scriptures seriously. Both care deeply...

Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi

Oxford University Press, 2009

It was by accident that the thesis of this book came to be. I had accepted and operated according to the standard critical understanding of the Covenant Code and its relationship to Mesopotamian legal tradition. This viewed the biblical law collection as the result of stages of development over several centuries. The similarities it had with...

Thank God It's Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love

FT Press, 2009

Today-s #1 Secret of Profitability and Performance

-Thank God Roxanne is willing to share her special mix of motivation and proven methods to supercharge your workplace. Readers will move from -Thank God It-s Monday- to -I Wish Every Day Could Be Monday.--

Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times #1...

Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with...

Philosophy's Higher Education

Springer, 2005

Few will disagree that philosophy is educational, or that at the root of philosophy lies
the struggle to understand ourselves, or, even, that this struggle is formative for us.
The real disagreement begins regarding the nature and import of this learning. In the
following pages I will challenge philosophical experience to recognise...

Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's Philosophy

Oxford University Press, 2008

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian...

Current Controversies in Philosophy of Religion

Routledge, 2019

While orthodox religion by its very nature is conservative, philosophy at its best is inherently radical. It challenges authority, tradition, and the whole idea of "dogma." For this reason, philosophy of religion can be explosively controversial. It is bound to disturb those who peddle incontrovertible truth and fascinate...

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

Simon & Schuster, 2005

What do the music of J. S. Bach, the basic forces of nature, Rubik's Cube, and the selection of mates have in common? They are all characterized by certain symmetries. Symmetry is the concept that bridges the gap between science and art, between the world of theoretical physics and the everyday world we see around us. Yet the "language"...

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