Is there a God, or a spiritual reality beyond nature? This work takes a look at this question, focusing on what we have learned about our world rather than on traditional metaphysical disputes. Criticising Muslim and New Age perspectives, and Jewish and Christian arguments, it argues that a naturalism leads to a better explanation of our world.
A Resource for Girls in Science, Math, and Technology
Divided into 3 parts, this volume aims to guide young women who want to explore and plan a career in science, math, or technology. It introduces readers to the career opportunities available in the sciences. It recounts stories of girls and young women in the sciences, detailing how they got involved and what they have accomplished.
American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science.
Takes you through 450 intriguing science questions, from the profound to the amusingly trivial. This book demonstrates how fascinating our natural world is and how science helps us to explore and unravel nature's wonders. It also features a section on the history of the human race.
A collection of essays that provides suggestions for enhancing science education in the United States and improving the standards of scientific literacy throughout the world.
Phylogenetic Systematics, first published in 1966, marks a turning point in the history of systematic biology. Willi Hennig's influential synthetic work, arguing for the primacy of the phylogenetic system as the general reference system in biology, generated significant controversy and opened possibilities for evolutionary biology that are still ......
The metaphor of a ''cognitive map'' has attracted wide interest since it was first proposed in the late 1940s. Researchers from fields as diverse as psychology, geography, and urban planning have explored how humans process and use spatial information, often with the view of explaining why people make wayfinding errors or what makes one person a ......
American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science.
