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This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences¿spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental impact of humans, erosion, and climate change. From the very beginning, he paved the way for a ...

The Bible's opening chapter includes these words: "So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them." We are created beings, with a unique status in creation. Nothing is more fundamental to Christian faith. Yet biologists present extensive data and provide a picture of how our species came to be, but there is no Creator in the intricate details of the painting they provide. If the scienti...

The Bible's opening chapter includes these words: "So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them." We are created beings, with a unique status in creation. Nothing is more fundamental to Christian faith. Yet biologists present extensive data and provide a picture of how our species came to be, but there is no Creator in the intricate details of the painting they provide. If the scienti...

This book aims to view and to understand Alexander von Humboldt from different perspectives and in varying disciplinary contexts. His contributions addressed numerous topics in the earth but also life sciences¿spanning from geo-botany, climatology, paleontology, oceanography, mineralogy, resources, and hydrogeology to links between the environmental impact of humans, erosion, and climate change. From the very beginning, he paved the way for a ...

Re-Framing the International insists that, if we are to properly face the challenges of the coming century, we need to re-examine international politics and development through the prism of ethics and morality. International relations must now contend with a widening circle of participants reflecting the diversity and uneveness of status, memory, gender, race, culture and class.

Develops the idea that a major cultural shift from modernism to postmodernism is under way, creating difficulties and opportunities in the domain of global public policy. This work observes a postmodem possibility implies the human capacity to transcend the violence, poverty, ecological decay, oppression, injustice, and secularism of modern world.

Der Wiener Kongress 1814/15: Nach der Niederlage Napoleons verhandeln die europäischen Regenten die politische Neuordnung des Kontinents. Währenddessen bewirbt die Handschuhverkäuferin Christl ihr Geschäft, indem sie in jede vorbeifahrende Monarchen-Kutsche einen Blumenstrauß mit ihrer Visitenkarte wirft. Als sie dabei auf Zar Alexander von Russland trifft, erlebt Christl ein einzigartiges Abenteuer.

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Finally, a book on the physics of light that doesn't require advanced mathematics to understand. Seeing the Light is the most accessible and comprehensive study of optics and light on the market. With a focus on conceptual study, Seeing the Light leaves the heavy-duty mathematics behind, instead using practical analogies and simple empirical experiments to teach the material. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson, making it easy to learn a...

Endlich gibt es das bemerkenswerte Buch des Biologieprofessors und evangelikalen Christen Darrel R. Falk auch in Deutsch - ein dringend benötigtes Buch, um die immer wieder aufbrausende Kontroverse zwischen Schöpfung und Evolution zu versachlichen. Falk gelingt es, die Erkenntnisse der Naturwissenschaften zur Entwicklung des Lebens auf der Erde unterhaltsam und mit vielen Beispielen aus dem alltäglichen Leben zu erklären. Aber nicht nur das: E...

The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic.

Erst wurde es dunkel. Schwarz stand Es ist schon etwas Merkwiirdiges Doch Licht ist nicht nur ein Hilfs­ dann die Scheibe des Mondes vor der mit unseren Augen. Wir denken nicht mittel zum Sehen. Die elektromagne­ Sonne. An der Seite ragten Pro tube­ oft dariiber nach, was es mit dem tische Strahlung ist ein wichtiger Be­ ranzen in die silbrig leuchtende Koro­ Licht auf sich hat, das uns durch das standteil der Welt. Licht entsteht in na, himbe...

Falk argues that the failure to achieve what he terms "humane global governance" is partially due to the exclusion of religious and spiritual dimensions of human experience from the study and practice of government. The book begins with a section on dominant world order trends and tendencies with respect to global governance. This is followed by consideration of the extent to which these recent world order trends that are shaping the historica...

The most complete and lucid nonmathematical study of light available. Chapters are self-contained, making the book flexible and easy to read. Coverage includes such non-traditional topics as processes of vision and the eye, atmospherical optical phenomena, color perception and illusions, color in nature and in art, Kirilian photography, and holography. Includes experiments that can be carried out with simple equipment. Chapters contain optiona...

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Bringing together a biblically based understanding of creation and the most current research in biology, Darrel R. Falk outlines a new paradigm for relating the claims of science to the truths of Christianity.

Review of brain evolution in primates including humans.

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