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  • Sex, Tech, and Faith
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    Sex, Tech, and Faith

    A values-based, shame-free, pleasure-positive discussion of Christian ethics in response to a range of pressing issues in the digital age-including online pornography, dating apps, sexting,...
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  • Letters from Lake Como
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    Letters from Lake Como

    This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity...
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  • Beyond the Black Box
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    Beyond the Black Box

    The black box is actually orange - and there are two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. But crash investigators cannot rely on the black boxes alone. This...
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  • Concepts of Simultaneity
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    Concepts of Simultaneity

    Max Jammer's Concepts of Simultaneity presents a comprehensive, accessible account of the historical development of an important and controversial concept—which played a critical role in initiating...
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  • Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550
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    Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550

    Historian Edward Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages. In the early centuries of Christianity, Christians studied science and...
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  • Population Genetics
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    Population Genetics

    This concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipline that connects genetics and evolution. Addressing the theories behind population genetics and relevant empirical...
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  • Apprentice to Genius
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    Apprentice to Genius

    Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who...
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  • Theology for a Scientific Age
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    Theology for a Scientific Age

    A positive answer to Stephen Hawking's question, "Does the universe need a creator?"Alan Keightley, in the Modern Churchman, aptly identifies the focus of parts one and two of Arthur Peacocke's...
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  • Common Circuits
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    Common Circuits

    How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "big tech" and point us to brighter, innovative horizons. A digital world in relentless movement-from artificial...
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  • Sex Isn't Real
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    Sex Isn't Real

    Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more,...
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  • Scientocracy
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    Scientocracy

    Scientific research is the time-honored key to objective knowledge. In the past it was funded pluralistically, but today certain portions of the market for knowledge are dominated by a single buyer,...
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  • Television
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    Television

    For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for fifty years. Yet it is a relatively recent invention, one that required passionate inventors, determined businessmen,...
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  • California Earthquakes
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    California Earthquakes

    In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to...
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  • Critique of Intelligent Design
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    Critique of Intelligent Design

    A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. "Critique of Intelligent Design" is a key to understanding the forces of...
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  • Perspectives on Science and Culture
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    Perspectives on Science and Culture

    Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an...
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  • Studying Science, second edition
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    Studying Science, second edition

    Those starting a science degree at university will want to get the most out of their studies and do well. University is a big jump from school, but this book will help new students to cope with the...
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  • Ordering Life
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    Ordering Life

    For centuries naturalists have endeavored to name, order, and explain biological diversity. Karl Jordan (1861–1959) dedicated his long life to this effort, describing thousands of new species in the...
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  • Looking for a Few Good Males
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    Looking for a Few Good Males

    Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the fascinating patterns of experiment and...
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  • Antisocial Media
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    Antisocial Media

    The debate surrounding the transformation of work at the hands of digital technology and the anxieties brought forth by automation, the sharing economy, and the exploitation of leisure We have been...
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  • Science and Eastern Orthodoxy
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    Science and Eastern Orthodoxy

    People have pondered conflicts between science and religion since at least the time of Christ. The millennia-long debate is well documented in the literature in the history and philosophy of science...
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  • Gliding for Gold
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    Gliding for Gold

    As anyone from cold climates knows, frequently occurring ice and snow lead to a special appreciation of sports such as skiing, sledding, and skating. Prolific physics popularizer Mark Denny's take on...
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  • Telling the Bees
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    Telling the Bees

    In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts,...
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  • Mixing Races
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    Mixing Races

    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college...
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  • Biology in Time and Space
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    Biology in Time and Space

    How do biological objects communicate, make structures, make measurements and decisions, search for food, i.e., do all the things necessary for survival? Designed for an advanced undergraduate...
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  • the Heavens and the Earth
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    the Heavens and the Earth

    This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews...
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  • The Illusion of Separation
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    The Illusion of Separation

    Our modern patterns of thinking and learning are all based on observing a world of 'things', which we think of as separate building blocks. This worldview allows us to count and measure objects...
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  • The Practical Einstein
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    The Practical Einstein

    Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniuss contribution to human knowledge and modern...
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  • The Costs of Connection
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    The Costs of Connection

    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through...
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  • The Collectors of Lost Souls
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    The Collectors of Lost Souls

    Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales...
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  • The Physics of Krav Maga
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    The Physics of Krav Maga

    Krav Maga ("contact combat" in Hebrew) is a hard-hitting and efficient form of self-defense that was popularized by Israeli soldiers. Stressing practical, real-world fighting and a philosophy of...
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  • Nature Exposed
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    Nature Exposed

    In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific...
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  • Spark from the Deep
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    Spark from the Deep

    Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock...
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  • Calculus for the Natural Sciences
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    Calculus for the Natural Sciences

    In this textbook on calculus of one variable, applications to the natural sciences play a central role. Examples from biology, chemistry, and physics are discussed in detail without compromising the...
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  • Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra

    Fit for students just starting to build a background in mathematics, this textbook provides an introduction to numerical methods for linear algebra problems. Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra...
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  • Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra

    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra introduces students to numerical issues that arise in linear algebra and its applications. A wide range of techniques are touched on, including direct to iterative...
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  • Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia
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    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia

    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia provides in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in numerical linear algebra, including how to solve dense and sparse linear systems, compute QR factorizations,...
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  • Location Estimation from the Ground Up
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    Location Estimation from the Ground Up

    The location of an object can often be determined from indirect measurements using a process called estimation. This book explains the mathematical formulation of location-estimation problems and the...
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  • Probability and Mathematical Statistics
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    Probability and Mathematical Statistics

    This book develops the theory of probability and mathematical statistics with the goal of analyzing real-world data. Throughout the text, the R package is used to compute probabilities, check...
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  • Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water
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    Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water

    Web-like waves, often observed on the surface of shallow water, are examples of nonlinear waves. They are generated by nonlinear interactions among several obliquely propagating solitary waves, also...
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  • Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals
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    Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals

    These two essays by the famous 19th-century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution tackle a subject that is still a major focus of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole, and...
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  • Turned Upside Down
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    Turned Upside Down

    Marko Pogacnik is an experienced lithopuncturist, or 'landscape-healer'. Through his work, he is attuned to the different planes and dimensions of the Earth, and in the late 1990s he became aware...
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  • Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change
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    Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change

    This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and...
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