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The unshackling of science from religious intolerance is the theme of Bryan Harbottle's fascinating and scholarly work. He focusses on two giants of the Victorian era and their ground-breaking works: Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species (1859), and Thomas Huxley's 'Man's Place in Nature' (1863). Darwin and Huxley, with their implicit denial of the Genesis creation and a Designer God, thrust their message of evolution and natural selectio...

The author wrote this book using his poetic imagination. It's a book for most any age, but probably more for ages 5 and up. Amusing children and encouraging them to read can be fun. This author writes about everyday life of a child. Fun things children like to do and down to earth understanding of life. It is a book of fun topics such as Aliens, U.F.O.'s, Space, Witches and Halloween. Trips to the Zoo, Playgrounds , Clowns, Snowmen and pleasan...

The definitive inventory and guide to the architectural history of one of the premiere old cities of the United States." -- Baltimore Sun

An assessment of Russian military capacity and how reforms could shape its future.

Il était une fois un bébé souris nommé Fitch. En fait, il n'était plus vraiment un " bébé ", mais comme il était petit, la plupart des gens qu'il rencontrait le prenaient pour un bébé. Les souris quittent la maison lorsqu'elles sont encore très jeunes, et comme la famille de Fitch avait eu depuis peu des problèmes avec un chat, ses parents pensaient qu'il serait bon pour lui de commencer à découvrir le monde le plus tôt possible. Fitch se sent...

Introducing Enterprise Business Architecture concepts and terms, this book emphasizes the importance of architectures in reaching business goals. It challenges readers to research the architectural needs of their business, enabling them to understand their chosen architecture and the behaviors and discipline needed to maximize its potential.

Inside Notes From the Outside wrestles with issues that have loomed over anyone who has had to come to terms with concrete, pragmatic questions regarding identity within the interacting spheres of race, gender, class, and power. Based on the premise that discourse regarding these issues tend to be cast into a relationship of powerful vs. powerless, the author contends that power is not a fixed thing, but a subtle, complex matrix that shifts ov...

Suicide bombers are today's weapon of choice. Terrorists are using suicide bombers because they are a low cost, low technology, and low risk weapon. Suicide bombers are readily available, require little training, leave no trace behind, and strike fear into the general population. The success of suicide bombers depends upon an element of surprise, as well as accessibility to targeted areas or populations. Both of these required elements have be...

The Cycle Path is a remarkable story about a woman who overcomes the crippling condition "Conversion Syndrome Disorder". This rare condition where anxiety causes paralysis of the body. The book is a must for people who work in the medical field, researchers, anyone who may have a similar condition and anyone who has expereinced domestic violence, child abuse and had an abortion. This real life story describes how the author Fiona Whelpton who ...

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This timely and challenging book asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. A timely and challenging book, which asks how education should respond to environmental concerns. Puts forward an innovative thesis about our relationship with nature. Poses fundamental questions about the nature, purpose and practice of education.

Written clearly and accessibly by leading researchers, this book examines the debates, major trends, research, and conceptual evolution of human geography during the past century. Considering each of the subject's primary subfields in turn, it addresses developments in both continental European and Anglo-American geography, providing a cutting-edge evaluation of each.

- The first book on disruption management- The topics covered are large in scope and extensive in content, from production and airline scheduling to supply chain management- The main author is internationally known as the pioneer of disruption management, in both industry and academia

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A sequel to The Waiter (2000), The Apocalypse explores a time twenty years later in the life of Barnett Gary when millions of Blacks have perished from gun violence and AIDS, with the remaining numbers left to live on reservations scattered about the Washington D.C. area. When terrorist acts reduce an already desolate land to cringing in fear, the restaurant business that Gary has known and worked his whole life in is left in ruins for the lac...

Howard J. Shaffer, Ph. D. More than 20 years ago, I first noted that young people in North America were growing up in a context of legalized gambling for their entire lifetime. By the 1980s, for young people, gambling had become an average and expectable part of the social landscape. Amid legal opportunities to gamble in all but two of the United States and with illicit opportunities to gamble in every state, gambling is now ubiquitous in Amer...

Igor Klekh writes from the crossroads of Europe: Ukraine, influenced by the Russian literature tradition of the east and the languages and dialects of both Central Europe and his native country. As one of the brightest lights to come out of the post-perestroika literary scene, Klekh's work has been welcomed as a synthesis of the two traditions, and celebrated as some of the most breathtakingly original prose of recent years.The publication of ...

- Helps readers to appreciate the simplicity and elegance of the simulated evolution and learning techniques- Provides a good avenue for practitioners to deploy evolutionary computation techniques through various examples- Enables a quick start in the area of evolutionary computation- Presents topics or issues of current research interest- Contains 43 chapters, with more than 30 different applications

Based on empirical analysis using configuration theory and multi-dimensional scaling, this book provides insight into types of relationships that can be found between groups of countries with certain institutional context features, and into the quality and equity of their education system. In this volume, the authors take up the challenge of considering what a European 'settlement' might look like. In doing so, they take into account wor...

René Guénon (1886-1951) was the founder of the Traditionalist School. Along with Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, he reintroduced traditional metaphysics and esoterism into the Western world after a lapse of centuries, and was perhaps the first to present the doctrines of the Vedanta, Taoism, and Sufism not as Eurocentric orientalists or occult fantasts had done, but strictly in their own terms. To the 'mathematical' precision of...