Subject: Science

2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends By Steven F. Hayward
288 pages | ISBN 978-1-934276-17-4
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2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends

The 2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends brings tracking environmental progress fully into the 21st century of real-time analysis and commentary.

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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life By Michael A. Flannery
150 pages | ISBN 978-0-9790141-9-2
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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life

Some regard him as a heretic, others as merely a misguided scientist-turned-spiritualist, still others as a prescient figure anticipating the modern Gaia hypothesis. The provocative thesis of this new biography is that Wallace, in developing his unique brand of evolution, presaged modern intelligent design theory.

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Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners By Albert S. Moraczewski, Edward J. Furton and Peter J. Cataldo
466 pages | ISBN 978-0-935372-54-0
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Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners

More than thirty authors, who are experts in their fields, examine moral action theory, key ethical principles, ethics committees, the embryo and fetus, contraception, reproductive technologies, and numerous other topics.

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Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S. L. Jaki By Paul Haffner
205 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-41-0
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Creation and Scientific Creativity: A Study in the Thought of S. L. Jaki

The work of Benedictine priest, theologian, and world-renowned physicist Stanley Jaki is given its first systematic study here in Creation and Scientific Creativity. Haffner also provides a full bibliography of over three decades of Jaki’s scholarship, along with a comprehensive overview of Jaki’s life and career.

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Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest By John G. West
160 pages | ISBN 978-0-979014-10-9
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Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest

While conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin’s theory, many on the right, such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart, have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. As Discovery Institute’s John West explains in his book, Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest, their attempts to reconcile conservatism and Darwinian biology misunderstand both.

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Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition By
119 pages | ISBN 9781880595152
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Environmental Stewardship in the Judeo-Christian Tradition

A fair and honest debate about religious responses to environmental issues should always distinguish theological principles from prudential judgments. The Cornwall Declaraion and the accompanying essays in this volume were written to do just that.

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God and Evolution By Jay Richards
388 pages | ISBN 978-0-9790141-6-1
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God and Evolution

What does it mean to say that God “used evolution” to create the world? Is Darwin’s theory of evolution compatible with belief in God? And even if Darwin’s theory could be reconciled with religious belief, do we need to do so? Is the theory well established scientifically? Is it true?

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Handbook on Critical Life Issues, Revised Third Edition By John A. Leies
285 pages | ISBN 9780935372472
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Handbook on Critical Life Issues, Revised Third Edition

This popular classroom text appears in a revised third edition with updates on nutrition and hydration, the persistent vegetative state, stem cell research, euthanasia, important court rulings, and many other topics critical to today’s health care profession.

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Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities By Commission on Children at Risk
84 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-04-9
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Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities

This pioneering report draws upon a large body of recent research showing that children are biologically primed (“hardwired”) for enduring connections to others and for moral and spiritual meaning.

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Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life By Edward J. Furton and Thomas V. Berg
362 pages | ISBN 9780935372502
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Human Embryo Adoption: Biotechnology, Marriage, and the Right to Life

What should we do with the hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos held in fertility clinics around the world today? One solution would be adoption. Would such a course of action be moral? That is the question faced in this volume.

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