A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico.
We stand at a precipice, a moment in human history defined by a deluge of information and a pervasive technological embrace that is fundamentally altering the human experience.
This book looks at the Islamic Common Market (ICM) of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), the world’s leading international Islamic organization.
The Esoteric Art of Living: Metaphysics of Quantum PhysicsWhere Science Meets the Soul: A Modern Guide to Reality, Consciousness, and the Power of the Unseen.
This book looks at the Islamic Common Market (ICM) of the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), the world’s leading international Islamic organization.
In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons.
Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit.
This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of the key cases that have come to shape the jurisprudence on emergency law in the United States from the Civil War to the War on Terror.
The unforeseeably complex socio-economic and environmental challenges of the 21st century must be tackled by placing faith in the power of mankind to integrate established wisdom and new knowledge, and in our ability to collaborate for a sustainable future.
For more than a century, quantum mechanics has served as a very powerful theory that has expanded physics and technology far beyond their classical limits, yet it has also produced some of the most difficult paradoxes known to the human mind.
At the turn of the 21st century, after decades of resisting the quantitative imperative, qualitative psychology and the psychological humanities seemed to have found some respite.
Information is an important concept that is studied extensively across a range of disciplines, from the physical sciences to genetics to psychology to epistemology.
The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world.
Roman law forms a vital part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America, East Asia and other parts of the world.
Whereas the past few years have repeatedly been referred to as the "e;era of biotechnology"e;, most recently the impression has emerged that at least the same degree of attention is being paid to the latest developments in the field of neurosciences.
These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems.
The traditional topics of the "e;philosophy of nature"e; - space, time, causality, the structure of the universe - are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories.
In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success.
