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Theology without Borders
Essays in Honor of Peter C. Phan
2022
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A comprehensive series of essays exploring Peter C. Phan’s groundbreaking work to widen Christian theology beyond the Western worldPeter C. Phan’s wide-ranging contributions to theology and his pioneering work on religious pluralism, migration, and Christian identity have made a global impact on the field.The essays in Theology without Borders offer a variety of perspectives across Phan’s fundamental work in eschatology, world christianity, interre...
Life as We Do Not Know It
The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life
2007
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An engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life-on Earth and beyondFor the past twenty years, Peter Ward has been at the forefront of popular science writing, with books such as the influential and controversial Rare Earth. In Life as We Do Not Know It, Ward, with his signature blend of eloquence, humor, and learned insight, vividly details the latest scientific findings, cutting-edge research, and intrepid new theories on the...
The Clean Body
A Modern History
2019
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How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean?The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matte...
2022
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In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of Defying Death . . .As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step—to live as long as we choose—has spurred a scientific arms race in search of the elixir of life, funded by Big Tech and Silicon Valley.Once the stuff of Mesopotamian mythology and episodes of Star Trek, the effort to make humans immortal...
2000
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Written by television trainers who run their own courses on Multiskilling, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the broad range of skills and technical knowledge required in this industry. It details all the essential information you need to know, acting as an on-the-job reference source for everyday use.For many broadcasting technicians, one of the biggest challenges in recent years has been the transition from a career working in a solo core skill such as camerawork o...
The Consequential Frontier
Challenging the Privatization of Space
- Narrated by
- Gary Galone
Unabridged
7 hours 14 min
2020
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This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer space.Earth is in trouble—so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a home for permanent colonization. With the era of NASA’s dominance now behind us, the private sector is winning this new space race. But if humans and their private wealth have made such a mess of Earth, who can say we won’t do the same in space?In The Consequential Frontier
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide
Learn everything you need to know to design and implement a solid disaster recovery plan for SharePoint 2013
2013
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Learn everything you need to know to design and implement a solid disaster recovery plan for SharePoint 2013Key FeaturesDesign, implement, test, and execute solid disaster recovery plans for your SharePoint environment with this essential guideLearn outofthebox backup and restore proceduresImplement a solid disaster recovery strategy for custom development environmentsA quick handson guide to get familiar with procedures to secure your...
The Medea Hypothesis
Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
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- Science Essentials
2009
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In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. This stands in stark contrast to James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis--the idea that life sustains habitable conditions on Earth. In answer to Gaia...
A New History of Life
The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth
- Narrated by
- William Elsman
Unabridged
14 hours 48 min
2022
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Bloomsbury presents A New History of Life by Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink, read by William Elsman.The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all—or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved—the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades.Charles Darwin’s theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of h...
2013
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This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe—the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China."Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fa...
R.I.P. Federal Reserve Bank 1913-2028
And Other Predictions
2010
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The Foundation for the Study of Cycles reports that they have identified over 4000 separate cycles that affect nature, culture, business and productivity. My book examines a few very long-term cycles that influence all of us for decades in subtle and profound ways. When cycles come to completion a period of disorder results. The monetary and political doctrines that railroaded the United States into world affairs, wars and global central banking a century ago are coming to the end of a cyc...
Under a Green Sky
Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
2009
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By looking backward at the course of great extinctions, a paleontologist sees what the future holds.More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, a great battle was fought between those who thought that death had come from above and those who thou...











