Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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Category : Nature study
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: György Doczi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780877731948
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Daniel B. Botkin
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of forests, the polluting of the atmosphere and the oceans--Botkin (biology and environmental studies, U. of California, Santa Barbara) argues that our ability to solve these problems is limited not by our scientific knowledge, but by the myths and metaphors that shape our perception of the natural world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: Leopold Hartley Grindon
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Leone Montagnini
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319506579
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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This book presents the entire body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), knowledge of which is essential if one wishes to understand and correctly interpret the age in which we live. The focus is in particular on the philosophical and sociological aspects of Wiener’s thought, but these aspects are carefully framed within the context of his scientific journey. Important biographical events, including some that were previously unknown, are also highlighted, but while the book has a biographical structure, it is not only a biography. The book is divided into four chronological sections, the first two of which explore Wiener’s development as a philosopher and logician and his brilliant interwar career as a mathematician, supported by his philosophical background. The third section considers his research during World War II, which drew upon his previous scientific work and reflections and led to the birth of cybernetics. Finally, the radical post-war shift in Wiener’s intellectual path is considered, examining how he came to abandon computer science projects and commenced ceaseless public reflections on the new sciences and technologies of information, their social effects, and the need for responsibility in science.

Author: Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299118436
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world. “A splendid book. Roderick Nash has written another classic. This exploration of a new dimension in environmental ethics is both illuminating and overdue.”—Stewart Udall “His account makes history ‘come alive.’”—Sierra “So smoothly written that one almost does not notice the breadth of scholarship that went into this original and important work of environmental history.”—Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Book Review “Clarifying and challenging, this is an essential text for deep ecologists and ecophilosophers.”—Stephanie Mills, Utne Reader

Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692092
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.

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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Author: John R. Schneider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108487602
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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This book will be of interest to college faculty and advanced students interested in the relationship between religion and science, particularly at Christian colleges and seminaries. Its value is to offer an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.