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Discover the secret to successfully growing and nurturing beautiful
roses. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Roses contains
everything you need to bring spectacular colours and gorgeous
scents to your garden. Learn how to grow and care for a variety of
roses with tips on selecting the right site, planting, and pruning.
Discover the perfect roses for your own outdoor space with a handy
directory of the best varieties for every situation, as well as the
ideal plants to grow alongside them. With their ease of
cultivation, tolerance to varied climates, and sublime beauty,
roses are the perfect flower for the modern garden. Packed with
practical, jargon-free know-how, this easy-to-use guide has
everything you need to know to help your garden Grow.
Parched is a collection of over 50 beautiful, fascinating and –
most importantly – drought-proof species from around the world.
We often think of the most beautiful plants as those that are lush,
verdant, and need careful care and tending – but what if we could
change the way we think of botanical beauty to include those that
thrive with hot sun, parched earth and little to no water?
Following the hottest summer on record, Parched explores the
captivating variety that exists in the world of dry plants. From
roadside daisies native to California and prickly pear cacti from
the Mexican desert to the familiar sights of lavender, rosemary and
yarrow, this incredible range of species is explored through
beautiful botanical illustrations from Kew's archives in this
gorgeously packaged gift book.
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena
that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within
the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human
beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the
subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown
us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary
implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and
Planetary Thinking, argues that more immanent or planetary ways of
thinking and acting have great potential for re-thinking
human-technology-animal-Earth relationships and for addressing
problems of global climate weirding and other forms of ecological
degradation. Older and often-marginalized forms of thought from
animisms, shamanisms, and other religious traditions are joined by
more recent forms of thinking with immanence such as the universe
story, process thought, emergence theory, the new materialisms
(NM’s), object-oriented ontologies (OOO’s), affect theory, and
queer theory. This book maps out some of the connections and
differences between immanent frameworks to provide some
eco-intellectual commons for thinking within the planetary
community, with a particular emphasis on making connections between
more recent theories and older ideas of immanence found in many of
the world’s religious traditions. The authors in this volume met
and worked together over five years, so the resulting volume
reveals sustained and multifaceted perspectives on “thinking and
acting with the planet.”
Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social
forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once
held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in
conflict. This unique book provides the best available introduction
to the burning debates in this controversial field. Examining the
defining questions and controversies, renowned expert Philip
Clayton presents the arguments from both sides, asking readers to
decide for themselves where they stand: * science or religion, or
science and religion? * history and philosophy of science * the
role of scientific and religious ethics - modifying genes,
extending life, and experimenting with human subjects * religion
and the environmental crisis * the future of science vs. the future
of religion. Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition
explores religious traditions from around the world and provides
insights from across the sciences, making this book essential
reading for all those wishing to come to their own understanding of
some of the most important debates of our day.
A plant a day brings beauty your way. So why not make the most of
your garden with 365 of the very best plant varieties - one for
every day of the year! From spring blooms to winter interest and
everything in between, each plant has been personally selected by
expert horticulturist Phil Clayton, who draws on his nearly 20
years of RHS experience, along with his own garden favourites, to
showcase a vast array of planting choices. With a range of plants
as broad as Phil's knowledge is vast, A Plant for Every Day of the
Year is like taking a walk with an accomplished gardener as they
show you their favourite plants. Each profile comes complete with
stunning photography and an at-a-glance guide to height, spread,
hardiness, and other must-know information, so you too can make the
most of every season in your own garden. Turn the pages of this
plant book to discover: - Unique structure gives the reader a whole
year of plants, day by day. - Phil Clayton's unrivalled knowledge
and personal approach are apparent throughout, allowing the reader
to absorb his experience and expertise. - Easy-to-follow text and
clear photography present the plants in an accessible and enjoyable
format. A must-have volume for existing gardeners and plant lovers
who want to enjoy Phil's personal and insightful commentary on a
wide range of plants, alongside individuals who don't know what
plants to grow and want to seek advice from a reputable gardener
such as Phil. Doubling up as the perfect gardening book for budding
botanists, who are looking to achieve their garden or indoor
space's fullest potential all year round, A Plant For Every Day of
the Year is sure to delight.
Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social
forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once
held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in
conflict. This unique book provides the best available introduction
to the burning debates in this controversial field. Examining the
defining questions and controversies, renowned expert Philip
Clayton presents the arguments from both sides, asking readers to
decide for themselves where they stand: * science or religion, or
science and religion? * history and philosophy of science * the
role of scientific and religious ethics - modifying genes,
extending life, and experimenting with human subjects * religion
and the environmental crisis * the future of science vs. the future
of religion. Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition
explores religious traditions from around the world and provides
insights from across the sciences, making this book essential
reading for all those wishing to come to their own understanding of
some of the most important debates of our day.
Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena
that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within
the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human
beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the
subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown
us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary
implications. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and
Planetary Thinking, argues that more immanent or planetary ways of
thinking and acting have great potential for re-thinking
human-technology-animal-Earth relationships and for addressing
problems of global climate weirding and other forms of ecological
degradation. Older and often-marginalized forms of thought from
animisms, shamanisms, and other religious traditions are joined by
more recent forms of thinking with immanence such as the universe
story, process thought, emergence theory, the new materialisms
(NM’s), object-oriented ontologies (OOO’s), affect theory, and
queer theory. This book maps out some of the connections and
differences between immanent frameworks to provide some
eco-intellectual commons for thinking within the planetary
community, with a particular emphasis on making connections between
more recent theories and older ideas of immanence found in many of
the world’s religious traditions. The authors in this volume met
and worked together over five years, so the resulting volume
reveals sustained and multifaceted perspectives on “thinking and
acting with the planet.”
According to the reigning competition-driven model of evolution,
selfish behaviors that maximize an organism's reproductive
potential offer a fitness advantage over self-sacrificing
behaviors-rendering unselfish behavior for the sake of others a
mystery that requires extra explanation. Evolution, Games, and God
addresses this conundrum by exploring how cooperation, working
alongside mutation and natural selection, plays a critical role in
populations from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency
to cooperate, argue the contributors to this book, may be as
beneficial as the self-preserving instincts usually thought to be
decisive in evolutionary dynamics. Assembling experts in
mathematical biology, history of science, psychology, philosophy,
and theology, Martin Nowak and Sarah Coakley take an
interdisciplinary approach to the terms "cooperation" and
"altruism." Using game theory, the authors elucidate mechanisms by
which cooperation-a form of working together in which one
individual benefits at the cost of another-arises through natural
selection. They then examine altruism-cooperation which includes
the sometimes conscious choice to act sacrificially for the
collective good-as a key concept in scientific attempts to explain
the origins of morality. Discoveries in cooperation go beyond the
spread of genes in a population to include the spread of cultural
transformations such as languages, ethics, and religious systems of
meaning. The authors resist the presumption that theology and
evolutionary theory are inevitably at odds. Rather, in rationally
presenting a number of theological interpretations of the phenomena
of cooperation and altruism, they find evolutionary explanation and
theology to be strongly compatible.
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What's with Free Will? (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
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What's with Free Will? (Paperback)
Philip Clayton, James W. Walters; Foreword by John Martin Fischer
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God and Gravity (Paperback)
Philip Clayton; Edited by Bradford Mccall
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God and Gravity (Hardcover)
Philip Clayton; Edited by Bradford Mccall
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Much of the modern period was dominated by a `reductionist' theory
of science. On this view, to explain any event in the world is to
reduce it down to fundamental particles, laws, and forces. In
recent years reductionism has been dramatically challenged by a
radically new paradigm called `emergence'. According to this new
theory, natural history reveals the continuous emergence of novel
phenomena: new structures and new organisms with new causal powers.
Consciousness is yet one more emergent level in the natural
hierarchy. Many theologians and religious scholars believe that
this new paradigm may offer new insights into the nature of God and
God's relation to the world. This volume introduces readers to
emergence theory, outlines the major arguments in its defence, and
summarizes the most powerful objections against it. Written by
experts but suitable as an introductory text, these essays provide
the best available presentation of this exciting new field and its
potentially momentous implications.
Christians frequently resist evolutionary theory, believing it to
be incompatible with the core values of their tradition. But what
exactly are the tensions between evolution and religious faith in
the area of human morality? "Evolution and Ethics examines the
burning questions of human morality from the standpoint of
Christian thought and contemporary biology, asking where the two
perspectives diverge and where they may complement one another.
Representing a significant dialogue between world-class
scientists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume explores the
central features of biological and religious accounts of human
morality, introducing the leading theories and locating the key
points of contention. Central to these discussions are the
questions of whether human actions are ever genuinely selfless,
whether there is something in the moral life that transcends
biological function, and whether one can sensibly speak of an
overall purpose to the course of evolution.
Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike,
"Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive
approach to an often divisive debate.
Contributors: Larry Arnhart
Christopher Boehm
Craig A. Boyd
Robert Boyd
Michael J. Chapman
Philip Clayton
Loren Haarsma
John Hare
S. Mark Heim
David C. Lahti
Thomas Jay Oord
Gregory R. Peterson
Joseph Poulshock
Peter J. Richerson
Philip A. Rolnick
Holmes Rolston III
Michael Ruse
Jeffrey Schloss
Rene van Woudenberg
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