Carroll: 1589 books

This is the first book to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of the post-war ?Baby Boom? generation on Christianity around the world. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the contributors examine ten advanced countries, including England, France, Germany, Australia, and the United States, and...

In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's...

Jennie Walden is a young woman who has written papers for natural science journals, and has corresponded with a fellow naturalist, Oliver Gunnersen, for years. When Oliver proposes long distance, Jennie travels to Oliver's home at Bramblewood Estate to wed her mysterious friend. She is astonished...

Per sopravvivere a Snuggstown, turbolento sobborgo di Dublino, ci sono due possibilità: pagare il pizzo alla mala, oppure riscuoterlo per suo conto. E per un poliziotto, ce n'è una sola: chiudere entrambi gli occhi. Ma se nella chiassosa cittadina ti capita di nascere con il talento per la boxe,...

Il pub di Foley, al centro di Dublino, è famoso per molte cose, ma per i Browne soprattutto per una: è la sede tradizionale da ventisette anni a questa parte di tutti i loro festeggiamenti. Ora perciò che l’ultimo dei Browne, Aaron, il figlio di Mark, ha deciso di venire al mondo, Agnes e i suoi...

A quasi cent'anni dal celebre Leopold Bloom di James Joyce, una nuova eroina, Agnes Browne, felice invenzione di Brendan». la Repubblica I marmocchi di Agnes Browne sono cresciuti: Frankie è una pecora nera, Cathy ama un poliziotto, Simon è balbuziente, Rory è gay, Trevor è un genio. Riuscirà...

Sandi Cramer's TV show, Love Cookin', is nominated for an Emmy. She can't forget her early years around 1990 at the bankrupt little station in Iowa where her show began, and the man who came to town to make the station succeed or to fire everyone and shut it down. Josh Pressman saw her talent potential...

It's September 2000, and the Olympic Games are about to descend on Sydney. The city is at fever pitch, but Barrett Pike, private investigator, couldn't care less. The excitement in Barrett's life comes via his part-time squeeze, the glamorous and successful Andrea Fox-Fearnor, and the after-dark...

This is a new, first-edition book of MCQs and EMQs designed to help test understanding of content presented in the Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics. It is ordered by the same chapter titles as Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics for ease of reference. Features: Over 300 questions in MCQ and EMQ formats Highly illustrated 31 chapters

Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands....

Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a "white comma / in the breath of space." Crocuses are "ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects." The ocean is "a...

If the garlic is too strong, and the tender chives too weak, if your onions make you cry, Take a Leek! It's not exactly an onion. And it's not a chive. The leek - big, simple, and often under-appreciated and misused - is in fact an indispensable flavor component to many of the most pleasing...

Rumors of a conspiracy started as soon as Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy and were re-doubled when Jack Ruby murdered Oswald in the heavily guarded basement of Dallas police headquarters. This is a story by a reporter who was in that headquarters basement and then worked on...

◎前所未見的科學世界觀著述 ◎紐約時報即時銷售榜 ◎票選史上最具影響力的科學類書籍 在一個沒有起因、也沒有目的的物理世界中， 任何一個人的存在，真的有那麼重要嗎？ 人類的目標和意義，是否能融入科學的新世界觀？ 一個人很渺小，生命短暫如蜉蝣，與宇宙相較，我們的身量甚至不如一顆原子和地球的相對尺寸。任何一個人的存在，真的有那麼重要嗎？ 在一次高速公路瀕死經驗中，作者與生命的有限性面對面交鋒。他瞬間深刻感受人類生命的渺小與短暫。 不禁問出：任何一個人的存在，相對於整個宇宙，真有那麼重要嗎？ 蕭恩．卡羅爾身為世界知名物理學家，提出了自達爾文以來科學典範轉移之後，幾乎沒有人可以迴避的重要問題。在本書中，他不單以卓絕智慧處理希格斯玻色子和額外維度的問題，還探討所有人類面臨的最深邃問題，面對世界的基底現實，我們該如何處理以下問題：我們身處何方？我們是誰？我們的生命是否有意義？ 面對這道哲學問題，作者引導我們看見過去幾百年來接連不斷的發現，如何改變我們的世界，對我們產生深遠的影響。這本書以極大的企圖心，試圖將人類的目標和意義，安置在科學的新世界觀中。 作者以詩意文字與洗鍊文筆，引領我們一探「詩性自然主義」，儘管自然世界只有一個，「詩性」卻提醒我們，談論世界的方式不只一種，宇宙並非某種單一且統一的情節，而是不同層次都有各自適用的描述，而且都是對於現實真實的描述。而我們的任務，就是找到這些不同層級的描述之間的關連性，從而組成一個讓我們安身立命的信念星球。 書中50個簡短篇章，充滿耐人尋味的歷史軼聞、旁白省思和嚴謹闡述。卡羅爾以耀眼奪目的獨特手法，鋪陳從達爾文和愛因斯坦，乃至於生命和意識，以及宇宙起源等一波波科學革命所依循的原理原則。 本書是前所未見的科學世界觀著述，這部力作當能在往後歲月與史蒂芬．霍金、卡爾．薩根、丹尼爾．丹尼特（Daniel...