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In the main, nineteenth-century German theologians paid little attention to natural science and especially eschewed philosophically popular yet naive versions of natural theology. Frederick Gregory...

An urgent plea for a broader understanding and awareness of the unconsidered dangers of new genetic technologies   Since 2010 it has been possible to determine a person's genetic makeup in a matter...

The attention of the chess-playing world, was drawn to the Gulf state of Bahrain where His Majesty the King of Bahrain had offered a million dollar prize for a match between world chess champion...

Comprises 11 major essays by Joseph Needham, one of the pre-eminent scholars in the study of the history of science in Chinese civilization and critic of the dominating role of science in Western...

In the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes­ sor of Mathematics at the University of Stockholm, pub­ lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor...

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step--from Jacques de...

Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's...

A comprehensive study of the geopolitical, security, economic, and environmental future of a major game-changing phenomenon--the alternative energy megatrend. This is not another alternative energy...

An examination of some of the remarkable connections between group theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry over finite fields Exponential sums have been of great interest ever since Gauss, and...

Die Aufsiitze des vorliegenden Bandes wurden zwischen 1950 und 1980 ge­ schrieben. 2/15· ist der friiheste Aufsatz. Ich schrieb ihn 1950/52, teils in Wien, nach Diskussionen mit Elizabeth Anscombe,...

A pioneering new nonlinear approach to a fundamental question in algebraic geometry One of the crowning achievements of nineteenth-century mathematics was the proof that the geometry of lines in...

Principles of Virology Fourth Edition Principles of Virology is the leading virology textbook because it does more than collect and present facts about individual viruses. Instead, it facilitates an...

Girls Will Be Girls offers solutions to the problems girls face famously, identified in the best-seller Reviving Ophelia. Deak looks past scare' stories to those that enlighten parents and enable...

The existence of God as demonstrated from motion has preoccupied men in every age, and still stands as one of the critical questions of philosophic inquiry. The four thinkers Father Buckley discusses...

A sequel to Lectures on Riemann Surfaces (Mathematical Notes, 1966), this volume continues the discussion of the dimensions of spaces of holomorphic cross-sections of complex line bundles over...

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others. Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing areas of...

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language,...

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence, and fiction; modality and its logic; strict...