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  • Confronting Disaster
    Raphael Sassower
    Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but i...
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    53,47 €

  • Modern Scepticism and Modern Faith
    Alfred Williams Momerie
    ''Modern Scepticism and Modern Faith'' is a non-fiction book written by Alfred Williams Momerie. The book discusses the relationship between scepticism and faith in the modern world. The author argues that scepticism and faith are not necessarily opposed to each other, but rather can coexist and even complement each other. Momerie examines various aspects of modern life, includ...
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    27,06 €

  • The Child
    Alexander Francis Chamberlain
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,14 €

  • Evolution of Expression Part One
    Charles Wesley Emerson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,31 €

  • Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution
    Jason Scott Robert
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    136,93 €

  • The Ten Assumptions of Science
    Glenn Borchardt
    The Ten Assumptions of Science presents the logically coherent set of assumptions destined to define 21st century scientific philosophy. Glenn Borchardt first explains why assumptions and not absolutes are necessary for scientific thinking. By exploring the opposition between deterministic and indeterministic views, he clearly shows how critical choices among underlying assumpt...
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    12,34 €

  • The Ten Assumptions of Science
    Glenn Borchardt
    The Ten Assumptions of Science presents the logically coherent set of assumptions destined to define 21st century scientific philosophy. Glenn Borchardt first explains why assumptions and not absolutes are necessary for scientific thinking. By exploring the opposition between deterministic and indeterministic views, he clearly shows how critical choices among underlying assumpt...
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    20,66 €

  • Making Mice
    Karen Rader
    Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse 'fanciers' who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structure...
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    119,30 €

  • Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change
    Joseph LaPorte
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    136,69 €

  • Discourse and Technology
    The overarching theme of Discourse and Technology is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of new communication technologies: The impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed-and the impact that these...
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    68,17 €

  • Animal Attractions
    Elizabeth Hanson
    On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to vi...
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    54,09 €

  • The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship
    Paul David Collings / Phillip Darrell Collins
    A. In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more mystical belief system. In particular, there was the institution of Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set). However, as antiquity gave way to modern history, this system of control began to lose its effectiveness. During the sixteenth century, the ruling class managed to co-opt a relatively ne...
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    23,24 €

  • The Species Problem
    David N Stamos / David N. Stamos / David NStamos / David Stamos
    Stamos squarely confronts the problem of determining what a biological species is, whether species are real, and the nature of their reality. He critically considers the evolution of the major contemporary views of species and also offers his own solution to the species problem. ...
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    74,53 €

  • Lifeconscious
    Adrian Harrison Arvin
    The cover of Lifeconscious helps to explain its topic in a nutshell. The background shows a cliff face that reveals the catastrophic boundary between two historical epochs. In this case the Valles Caldera super volcanic eruption 1.4 million years ago. The thin boundary line separating the two epochs is plainly visible and provides stark evidence that this is just one of many ca...
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    25,69 €

  • Making Technology Work
    John M. Deutch / John MDeutch / Richard K. Lester / Richard KLester
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    163,23 €

  • Lifeconscious
    Adrian Harrison Arvin
    The cover of Lifeconscious helps to explain its topic in a nutshell. The background shows a cliff face that reveals the catastrophic boundary between two historical epochs. In this case the Valles Caldera super volcanic eruption 1.4 million years ago. The thin boundary line separating the two epochs is plainly visible and provides stark evidence that this is just one of many ca...
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    17,36 €

  • Beyond Therapy
    Leon Kass
    A groundbreaking new exploration of the promises and perils of biotechnology -- and the future of American society.Biotechnology offers exciting prospects for healing the sick and relieving suffering. But because our growing powers also enable alterations in the workings of the body and mind, they are becoming attractive to healthy people who would just like to look younger, pe...
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    15,19 €

  • Why Gould Was Wrong
    Nils KOeijord
    Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould’s claims were horribly wrong. ...
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    44,39 €

  • Why Gould Was Wrong
    Nils KOeijord
    Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis. Why Gould Was Wrong explains why Gould’s claims were horribly wrong. ...
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    55,63 €

  • IS FUTURE GIVEN?
    ILYA PRIGOGINE
    In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined. Contrary to globalisation and the apparent contemporary mass culture society, individual behaviour is beginning to incr...
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    47,25 €

  • Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
    Adam Burgess
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    47,94 €

  • Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
    Adam Burgess
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    108,08 €

  • The Fascinated God
    Robert E. Zinser / Robert EZinser
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    32,53 €

  • The Scientific Case Against Scientific Creationism
    Jon P. Alston
    Sociologist Jon P. Alston offers a unique and clear analysis of the weaknesses of scientific creationism and intelligent design by identifying what creationists say when they reject evidence for evolution. He also shows how scientific creationists accept non-scientific statements that contradict established scientific knowledge. Acceptance of anti-evolutionary knowledge also de...
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    14,92 €

  • Human Nature and the Limits of Science
    John Dupre
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    68,35 €

  • Life’s Solution
    Simon Conway Morris
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    119,34 €

  • From Clouds to Sunshine Or The Evolution of a Soul
    E. Thomas Kaven / EThomas Kaven
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    19,51 €

  • God and the Embryo
    Discussions and debates over the medical use of stem cells and cloning have always had a religious component. But there are many different religious voices. This anthology on how religious perspectives can inform the difficult issues of stem cell research and human cloning is essential to the discussion. Contributors reflect the spectrum of Christian responses, from liberal Pro...
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    40,51 €

  • Bioethics in America
    M. L. Tina Stevens
    In Bioethics in America, Tina Stevens challenges the view that the origins of the bioethics movement can be found in the 1960s, a decade mounting challenges to all variety of authority. Instead, Stevens sees bioethics as one more product of a 'centuries-long cultural legacy of American ambivalence toward progress,' and she finds its modern roots in the responsible science movem...
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    42,26 €

  • Metaphysical Cavemen
    A. O. Kime / AOKime
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    26,61 €


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