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This book looks at innovative engineering solutions to the problems of climate change and explores ways in which to develop clean, renewable energy sources. It is now generally accepted that the world's climate has entered into a phase of warming with potentially disastrous consequences for the planet, but there is no agreement about how to deal with it. The "global energy trap" of the title refers to the fact that our civilization has been ...

This slim volume is made up of poems composed over a period of years on a variety of themes as their significance rose, usually quite suddenly, into consciousness. Then came the poet's task of turning half-focused awareness into words, in the process that T.S. Eliot once aptly called "the marshalling of undisciplined squads of emotion." Apart from one short poem that was written as a jeu d'esprit for my daughter on her eighth birthday, all are...

In the questioning spirit of Socrates, Dr Parkinson argues that Christianity must be true to its basic principles of truth seeking. He traces the evolution of Christian thought and belief from its earliest foundations to the present day and proposes its future evolution in the light of new scientific understanding, in particular recent discoveries in Cosmology. He addresses the question that as we are built in the image of God, how can we beco...

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It is now generally accepted that the world's climate has entered into a phase of warming and potentially disastrous consequences for the planet, but there is no agreement about how to deal with it.

In a series of related essays, the author argues that both science and religion face "crossroads" because in both cases their current "myths" (such as classical Christianity and Einsteinian physics) are being called into question by new discoveries and new ways of thinking. This calls for a reassessment not only of the separate disciplines but of their relation to each other.

For survivors of physical and emotional violence, advice from professionals on how to reduce the far-reaching effects of post-traumatic stress.