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by Peter Kosso
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A Summary of Scientific Method is a brief description of what makes science scientific. It is written in a direct, clear style that is accessible and informative for scientists and science students. It is intended to help science teachers explain how science works, highlighting strengths without ignoring...
The Magic Ring
Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
This book presents a gradual path toward “educating” readers in understanding how Control Systems truly operate and in recognizing, simulating and improving them in all fields of activity. Starting from the hypothesis that knowledge of Control Systems is not only a technical fact but also represents...
Leviticus - Enhanced E-Book Edition
Five Different Versions, Matthew Henry Commentary, Image Gallery and Audio Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible, and the third of five books of the Torah (or Pentateuch). It is founded on two crucial beliefs: the first, that the world was created "very good" and retains the capacity to achieve that state although it is vulnerable to sin and defilement; the second,...
Celtic Lore & Spellcraft of the Dark Goddess: Invoking the Morrigan
Invoking the Morrigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Invoke the Morrigan—the Celtic embodiment of the victory, strength, and power of the Divine Feminine—and be transformed by her fierce and magnificent energy. In this comprehensive, hands-on guide to Celtic Witchcraft, Stephanie Woodfield invites you to explore the Morrigan's rich history and origins,...
by Veronica Cummer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is a book about the religion once practiced ages ago in the Old Forest region of Europe. The book contains channeled messages from the Gods of the Old Forest and from the fey, as well as stories, myths, legends, and bits and pieces of the old witch language. It is not meant to be a "Wicca 101"...
The Human Instinct
How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution).
Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on...
by Philip Frymire
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Creationism has made a comeback recently by becoming supposedly more sophisticated. There is, however, nothing new in the arguments of recent intelligent design creationists. There is no substance to their claims and evolutionary biologists do not take them seriously. Nevertheless, creationists have...
by Juleon M. Schins
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
One often hears the following: Believers and agnostics alike, everybody seems convinced that God (or something out there) has but little influence on our material world: the more we know scientifically, the less room is left for God to influence material reality. Well, the opposite is true. The more...
The Cooking of History
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides...
Electric Santería
Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture...
A Little Book on Teaching
A Beginner's Guide for Educators of Engineering and Applied Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It is often a challenging and overwhelming transition to go from being a student to being a teacher. Many new faculty members of engineering and science have to make this dramatic transition in a very short time. In the same closing months of your Ph.D. program you are trying to complete your research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Astronomers use (and often develop) the latest technology, the fastest computers and the most refined software. In this book twenty-two leading scientists from nine countries talk about how...
The Hooked X
Key to the Secret History of North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine...
by Tessa Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
This book is about a side of Isaac Newton’s character that has not been examined – Isaac Newton as architect as demonstrated by his reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple. Although it is well known that Isaac Newton worked on the Temple, and this is mentioned in most of his biographies and in articles...