S Peter: 321 books
by John Agresto, William B. Allen, Michael P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather...
The Last Generation
Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds...
How Ancient Europeans Saw the World
Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late...
The Text, the Play, and the Globe
Essays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which...
After the Grizzly
Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from...
by Peter S. Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Using Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy as his springboard, Peter S. Dillard provides a radical reorientation of contemporary Christian theology. From Heidegger’s initially obscure texts concerning the holy, the gods, and the last god, Dillard extracts two possible non-metaphysical theologies:...
Resurrection: Faith or Fact?
A Scholars' Debate Between a Skeptic and a Christian
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Is there enough evidence to believe Jesus rose from the dead, or must such a judgment be based only on faith? Can the resurrection story be considered a fact of history, or should it be viewed as an ahistorical account? Two renowned professors, atheist Carl Stecher and Christian Craig Blomberg, engage...
Russian Messianism
Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is the first book in English for half a century to examine the complexities of Russian messianism, both as a whole and in its interaction with Communism. Peter Duncan considers its Orthodox roots and focuses on Russia's geopolitical experience and situation to explain the endurance of this phenomenon.
Undiscovered Country
Imagining the World to Come
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Why do most contemporary Christians pull a blank when it comes to imagining a life with God after death? Although the Bible is largely silent on the issue, our world is completely riveted by the up-to-date visions of heaven and hell that stock bookstore shelves and are found everywhere on the Internet....
by Peter Harrison, Marcel Zentner, George Zarkadakisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #1: December 2018
Featuring Ideas by: Peter Harrison, Marcel Zentner, George Zarkadakisis, Danielle Celermajer, Paul Raeburn, Scott Samuelson, Nicolas Langlitz, Andrew Taggart, Donald S Lopez Jr, and Regina Rini
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
by Peter S. DuPonceau
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau or DuPonceau, born Pierre-Étienne Du Ponceau, (June 3, 1760 - April 1, 1844) was a French philosopher and jurist who spent most of his life in the United States and was an avid student of the U.S. Constitution and the government. He also became well known in the field of linguistics...
by Julian E. Andrews, Peter Brimblecombe, Tim D. Jickells
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
This introductory text explains the fundamentals of the chemistry of the natural environment and the effects of mankind's activities on the earth's chemical systems.
Retains an emphasis on describing how natural geochemical processes operate over a variety of scales in time and space, and...
Beyond Red and Blue
How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.
On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats...