Stephen Webb: 26 books
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of...
Out of this World
Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Stephen Webb, author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the Big Bang, parallel universes, and an imaginary trip to the other side of the black hole.
by Stephen Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
You don’t need to know anything about maths or astronomy to read this bookThe title of this book is to inspire you into asking the question “is what we think we already know about our universe correct".It covers what we believe science has told us so far, what we think we know today and also looks...
by Stephen Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The theory behind the stable state universe
The first part of this theory is to believe in absolute zero, that is when there is no energy, no heat. Now in science we believe that we cannot reach absolute zero, because we have tried and found it impossible. Think of a thermometer it gets really close...
All the Wonder that Would Be
Exploring Past Notions of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which...
by Stephen Webb, Toni Runkle
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
True Confessions of a Trendsetter
Hi! I'm Kat. Welcome to my blog. I may be from a small town but I'm also Glitter Girl Cosmetics' newest trendsetter. Thanks to my flair for fashion and my popular style blog, I've been chosen to be an Alpha Girl, which means I get to try out all the Glitter...
Evidence-based Social Work
A Critical Stance
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments’ approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the content and structure of social work and its allied professions. Its emergence has generated much debate and raised...
by Stephen Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes...
Lord Churchill's Coup
The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated...
Jesus Christ, Eternal God
Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ. Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the divine requires a rethinking of the...
On God and Dogs
A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1998
Many of us keep pet animals; we rely on them for companionship and unconditional love. For some people their closest relationships may be with their pets. In the wake of the animal rights movement, some ethicists have started to re-examine this relationship, and to question the rights of humans to...
Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
What Other Christians Can Learn From the Latter-day Saints
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Mormons are adamant that they are Christian, and eloquent writers within their own faith have tried to make this case, but no theologian outside the LDS church has ever tried to demonstrate just how Christian they are. Stephen H. Webb's Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the...
by Stephen Saunders Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces,...
The Dome of Eden
A New Solution to the Problem of Creation and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What would biology look like if it took the problem of natural evil seriously? This book argues that biological descriptions of evolution are inherently moral, just as the biblical story of creation has biological implications. A complete account of evolution will therefore require theological input....
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