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  • Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers
    Derek C Schuurman / Ethan J Brue / Steven H Vanderleest
    Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new--as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing technology, it’s not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God ...
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    31,36 €

  • Science, Truth, and Meaning
    Benjamin L J Webb
    Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.The book focuses on aspects of scientific truth that relate to our understanding of reality, and confronts whether truth is absolute or relative to what we are. Hence...
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    121,62 €

  • Big Research Questions about the Human Condition
    Arne Jarrick
    Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and sel...
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    59,00 €

  • Dream It to Do It
    Howard Eisenberg
    Do you want to discover who you really are and could be?Learn the mysterious truths underlying our challenging existence, and discover how reality really works.By integrating indigenous wisdom, spiritual experience, and leading-edge scientific discoveries, this book will reshape your understanding of reality by revealing the uncanny link between envisioning the impossible and m...
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    15,51 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many...
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    21,12 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many...
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    30,45 €

  • The Biology of Wonder
    Andreas Weber
    A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his 'graceful prose' (Publishers Weekly).The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. This schism is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. Until we come to terms with the d...
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    33,04 €

  • Prometheus and Gaia
    Harrison Fluss / Landon Frim
    Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism, or the idea that politics should fit the human frame. ...
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    180,44 €

  • Einstein in the Attic
    Dana Dargos / Said Al Bizri
    Winner of the Literary Titan Award, Firebird Book Award, Maincrest Media Book Award, Best Book Award Finalist by The American Book Fest, and THREE honorable mentions at the prestigious New York, Hollywood, and San Francisco Book Festivals, 'Einstein in the Attic' is the sci-fi of the year!A search for truth by those that transcend time.Set against the backdrop of the war betwee...
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    12,67 €

  • The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
    Martina Zimmermann
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded byThe Wellcome Trust.The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer’s disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Eur...
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    50,91 €

  • Chaos Bewitched
    Laurence Campbell Cooper
    A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the aphorisms contained in this volume reflect both invention and discovery, and, like all aphorisms, preferring self-evidence to d...
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    38,58 €

  • Chaos Bewitched
    Laurence Campbell Cooper
    A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the aphorisms contained in this volume reflect both invention and discovery, and, like all aphorisms, preferring self-evidence to d...
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    26,41 €

  • Naturalizing God?
    Mikael Leidenhag
    Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions. ...
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    41,94 €

  • Reverse Engineering God
    Michael Rothschild
    What is morality? Do we have free will? Are there any limits to what the human mind can understand? How is it that humans speak? Why do we die? What is it that transcendental meditation transcends?Reverse Engineering God proposes rational and science-based answers to these and many other related and similar questions. It does so in a series of short 'stories.' Each story presen...
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    45,99 €

  • Data Power
    Craig M. Dalton / Craig MDalton / Jim E. Thatcher / Jim EThatcher
    In recent years, popular media has inundated audiences with sensationalized headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique. This book proposes a radical rethinking of the history, present and future of our relations with the digital, spatial t...
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    127,33 €

  • An Unexpected Journal
    An Unexpected Journal / Holly Ordway / Michael Ward
    Planting the Seeds of Imagination Holly Ordway has established herself as one of the preeminent voices in the field of cultural apologetics. Her ability to engage with the imagination is clearly demonstrated through her own scholarly work, most recently the paradigm-shifting Tolkien’s Modern Reading, but her influence was critical in the founding of An Unexpected Journal as wel...
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    20,83 €

  • Restless Devices
    Felicia Wu Song
    We’re being formed by our devices. Today’s digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others, even to God. Our natural longing for relationship makes us vulnerable to the industrializing effects of social media. While we enjoy the benefits of digital tech, many of us feel...
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    26,77 €

  • Reason, Faith, and Purpose
    John R Fanchi
    Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is a guide for believers and inquiring skeptics. This book summarizes the scientific view of the origins of the universe and life and analyzes the question of the existence of god from philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives.The material is presented in two parts. Part I presents the secular, scientific view of the o...
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    71,21 €

  • A Theory of Wonder
    Gonzalo Munévar
    ’A Theory of Wonder’ aims to determine the best way science can satisfy our sense of wonder by exploring the world. Empiricism tells us that science succeeds because it follows the scientific method: Observation passes judgment on Theory - supporting or rejecting it. Much credit is given to the inventor of the method, Galileo, but when historically-minded philosophers of scienc...
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    77,03 €

  • Social Housing Homes in 25 Paintings
    Thurston Jones
    ’Social Housing Homes in 25 Paintings’ describes how these homes rose to prominence from the slums of the Industrial Revolution and the destruction of war-torn Britain.Following the wars, the Government passed various Acts aimed to improve or demolish existing homes that were unfit for habitation and build the homes that we may see today.This is an illustrated story of how thes...
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    10,73 €

  • The End of the World and the Last God
    Pierre-Henri d’Argenson / M. James Christie / MJames Christie
    The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet? ...
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    34,77 €

  • Impact and Role of Digital Technologies in Adolescent Lives
    Digital technology covers digital information in every form. The world lives in an information age in which massive amounts of data are being produced to improve our daily lives. This intelligent digital network incorporates interconnected people, robots, gadgets, content, and services all determined by digital transformation. The role of digital technologies in children’s, ado...
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    216,17 €

  • Applied Ethics in a Digital World
    As advances in disruptive technologies transform politics and increase the velocity of information and policy flows worldwide, the public is being confronted with changes that move faster than they can comprehend. There is an urgent need to analyze and communicate the ethical issues of these advancements. In a perpetually updating digital world, data is becoming the dominant ba...
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    216,20 €

  • Perfect Zero
    Jr. Rod Martin
    12 essays on the beauty and utility of zero. 'Similar to the slick vacuum of space, which has zero mass and zero density, zero remains deceptively simple. Behind the mask of nothingness there lurks a strange beast full of mystery and wonder.'-Perfect Zero, Introduction. Meditation, government, miracles, religion, mathematics, science, entropy, law of attraction and more.1. The ...
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    34,29 €

  • Humanity Reimagined
    Martin Fiore
    For years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transform...
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    20,54 €

  • Humanity Reimagined
    Martin Fiore
    For decades, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transfo...
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    15,83 €

  • Science Is Culture
    Adam Bly / Magazine Seed
    Seed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture.We are on the cusp of a twenty-first-century scientific renaissance. Science is driving our culture and conversation unlike ever before, transforming the social, political, economic, aesthetic, an...
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    15,13 €

  • Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Diversity and Equity in a Virtual World
    Almost every citizen of the world has been impacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, this included a shift from face-to-face interactions to a virtual platform. Understanding the impact of diversity and equity in the virtual world from a professional perspective is new and should be closely studied as professions continue to use virtual platforms in the upco...
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    216,17 €

  • Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto
    Ómar Vargas
    Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama’s literary works and the...
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    143,55 €

  • Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto
    Ómar Vargas
    Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama’s literary works and the...
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    64,59 €


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