A Philosopher Looks at Science, Paperback - Nancy (Durham University) Cartwright

What is science and what can it do? This innovative book uses examples from the physical, life, and social sciences to focus on all the products of...

Onora O'Neill shows how digital technologies have raised new ethical issues for communication, and argues that ethical communication requires broad...

Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Michael Ruse explores...

In this book, Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius in the first c...

Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These and other questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweep...

Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, arguing that sport reflects diverse human experience...

Reducere. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a p...

Reducere. This omnibus edition brings together Phillip Keller's three devotional classics, A Shepherd Looks and the 23rd Psalm, A Shepherd Looks at the Good ...

It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Univer...

Offers an original way to integrate spiritual and scientific views of human evolution. This work offers an alternative to the way we think about ou...

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Reducere. What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? ...

Reducere. How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating ...

Reducere. Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, e...

A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics cou...

Reducere. When a retired United States Senator's passion for deep-sea treasure hunting off the coast of Palm Beach leads to murder, Jake Sullivan, Chief Pros...

The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on t...

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities at the fin de siecle. Illumi...

This dictionary provides clear definitions for over 4, 000 pure and applied mathematics terms, including key theories, concepts, methods, people, a...

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want ..." Travel the shepherd's path to the green pastures and cool, refreshing waters of Psalm 23. As ...

Reducere. A fresh look at a famous prayer``There is inherent in this prayer all the strength and compassion of our Father in heaven. There moves through it a...

Reducere. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to un...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Pauline CartwrightNumber of pages: 16Collection: BUG CLUBPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 52 x 52 x...

Reducere. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame contains one of the largest collections of late nineteenth-century French stained ...

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This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath...

Reducere. Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer is known as the "father of Texas botany." While he was not the first botanist to collect plants for scientific examinati...

'The satirical English novel of the decade.' Observer

Reducere. In 1987, former U.S. Marine Corps sniper Craig Roberts, a seasoned veteran of the Vietnam war, stood for the first time at the 6th floor of the Tex...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Julia (Queensborough Community College, USA) RothenbergIllustration(s): Follows Alcohol; 4 Tables, black ...

This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, examining the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change wh...

Wonderful photographs documenting the local rail scene from the late 1980s to the early twenty-first century, featuring a range of trains and locom...

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This text explores a diverse set of data science topics through a mathematical lens, helping mathematicians become acquainted with data science in ...

This student friendly practical guide helps you get to grips with reflective practice in teaching, using theories & case studies.Publisher: Open Un...

Dr Gaius Davies is not afraid to show how anxiety, guilt, depression and doubt can be present in the finest of Christian lives, but also goes on to...

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A visually arresting, quirky lift-the-flap book series from Gerry Turley. All little readers will love helping Lois search for her friend Bob behin...

Reducere. "I consider The Soul of Science to be a most significant book which, in our scientific age, should be required reading for all thinking Christians ...

Reducere. Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term,...

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Nancy DickmannNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 180 x 212 x 7Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.Author(s): Nancy DickmannNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 180 x 211 x 7Cover type: PaperbackRedescope...

An authoritative and detailed account of contract law; this is a widely renowned and well-respected textbook for students of contract law, and a tr...

A therapist looks at life's ups and downs (with a bit of help from Charlie Brown and his friends).From the author of Waking Up Just In Time and Lif...