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This book is an introduction to quantum mechanics and mathematics
that leads to the solution of the Schrodinger equation. It is can
be read and understood by undergraduates without sacrificing the
mathematical detail necessary for a complete solution giving the
shapes of molecular orbitals seen in every chemistry text. Readers
are introduced to many mathematical topics new to the undergraduate
curriculum such as basic representation theory, Schur's lemma, and
the Legendre polynomials.
The author provides a treatment of world economic geography as a
whole. He sets out the historical context of the modern world along
with the principal philosophies that have shaped our study of it,
and identifies the importance of the biophysical environment as
well as cultural and political settings for economic activity.
The author clearly demonstrates the relevance of past events to
contemporary options for coping with economic change, and stresses
the importance of the biophysical environment, even in
"postindustrial" societies. The Global Economic System demonstrates
the reality and significance of contemporary global economic
interdependencies, and indicates that environmental and
cultural/historical perspectives are crucial to understanding the
evolution of national and regional economies. The book will be a
key text for undergraduate students of economic geography, and will
also serve the needs of courses in international affairs, global
political economy, and development studies.
2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER In a time of rapid climate change and
species extinction, what role have the world's religions played in
ameliorating-or causing-the crisis we now face? Religion in
general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a
disproportionate burden for creating humankind's exploitative
attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce
human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural
origins. In this regard, Christianity has become an otherworldly
religion that views the natural world as "fallen," as empty of
signs of God's presence. And yet, buried deep within the Christian
tradition are startling portrayals of God as the beaked and
feathered Holy Spirit - the "animal God," as it were, of historic
Christian witness. Through biblical readings, historical theology,
continental philosophy, and personal stories of sacred nature, this
book recovers the model of God in Christianity as a creaturely,
avian being who signals the presence of spirit in everything, human
and more-than-human alike. Mark Wallace's recovery of the bird-God
of the Bible signals a deep grounding of faith in the natural
world. The moral implications of nature-based Christianity are
profound. All life is deserving of humans' care and protection
insofar as the world is envisioned as alive with sacred animals,
plants, and landscapes. From the perspective of Christian animism,
the Earth is the holy place that God made and that humankind is
enjoined to watch over and cherish in like manner. Saving the
environment, then, is not a political issue on the left or the
right of the ideological spectrum, but, rather, an innermost
passion shared by all people of faith and good will in a world
damaged by anthropogenic warming, massive species extinction, and
the loss of arable land, potable water, and breathable air. To
Wallace, this passion is inviolable and flows directly from the
heart of Christian teaching that God is a carnal, fleshy reality
who is promiscuously incarnated within all things, making the whole
world a sacred embodiment of God's presence, and worthy of our
affectionate concern. This beautifully and accessibly written book
shows that "Christian animism" is not a strange oxymoron, but
Christianity's natural habitat. Challenging traditional
Christianity's self-definition as an other-worldly religion,
Wallace paves the way for a new Earth-loving spirituality grounded
in the ancient image of an animal God.
Biology majors and pre-health students at many colleges and
universities are required to take a semester of calculus but rarely
do such students see authentic applications of its techniques and
concepts. Applications of Calculus to Biology and Medicine: Case
Studies from Lake Victoria is designed to address this issue: it
prepares students to engage with the research literature in the
mathematical modeling of biological systems, assuming they have had
only one semester of calculus. The text includes projects, problems
and exercises: the projects ask the students to engage with the
research literature, problems ask the students to extend their
understanding of the materials and exercises ask the students to
check their understanding as they read the text. Students who
successfully work their way through the text will be able to engage
in a meaningful way with the research literature to the point that
they would be able to make genuine contributions to the literature.
2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER In a time of rapid climate change and
species extinction, what role have the world's religions played in
ameliorating-or causing-the crisis we now face? Religion in
general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a
disproportionate burden for creating humankind's exploitative
attitudes toward nature through unearthly theologies that divorce
human beings and their spiritual yearnings from their natural
origins. In this regard, Christianity has become an otherworldly
religion that views the natural world as "fallen," as empty of
signs of God's presence. And yet, buried deep within the Christian
tradition are startling portrayals of God as the beaked and
feathered Holy Spirit - the "animal God," as it were, of historic
Christian witness. Through biblical readings, historical theology,
continental philosophy, and personal stories of sacred nature, this
book recovers the model of God in Christianity as a creaturely,
avian being who signals the presence of spirit in everything, human
and more-than-human alike. Mark Wallace's recovery of the bird-God
of the Bible signals a deep grounding of faith in the natural
world. The moral implications of nature-based Christianity are
profound. All life is deserving of humans' care and protection
insofar as the world is envisioned as alive with sacred animals,
plants, and landscapes. From the perspective of Christian animism,
the Earth is the holy place that God made and that humankind is
enjoined to watch over and cherish in like manner. Saving the
environment, then, is not a political issue on the left or the
right of the ideological spectrum, but, rather, an innermost
passion shared by all people of faith and good will in a world
damaged by anthropogenic warming, massive species extinction, and
the loss of arable land, potable water, and breathable air. To
Wallace, this passion is inviolable and flows directly from the
heart of Christian teaching that God is a carnal, fleshy reality
who is promiscuously incarnated within all things, making the whole
world a sacred embodiment of God's presence, and worthy of our
affectionate concern. This beautifully and accessibly written book
shows that "Christian animism" is not a strange oxymoron, but
Christianity's natural habitat. Challenging traditional
Christianity's self-definition as an other-worldly religion,
Wallace paves the way for a new Earth-loving spirituality grounded
in the ancient image of an animal God.
The central message of this book is that religion has a special
role to play in saving the planet. Religion has the unique power to
fire the imagination and empower the will to break the cycle of
addiction to nonrenewable energy. The environmental crisis is a
crisis not of the head but of the heart. The problem is not that we
do not know how to stop climate change but rather that we lack the
inner strength to redirect our culture and economy toward a
sustainable future.
We live in an age of vast and rapid destruction of habitats and
species. Yet Christianity holds great potential for healing this
situation. Indeed, the Bible and Christian tradition are a treasure
trove of rich images and stories about God as an "earthen" being
who sustains the natural world with compassion and thereby models
for humankind environmentally healthy ways of being. Mark Wallace's
stimulating book retrieves a central but often neglected biblical
theme - the idea of God as carnal Spirit who indwells all things -
as the basis for constructing a "green spirituality" responsive to
the environmental needs of our time. In the biblical tradition, he
writes, God as Spirit is an ecological presence that shows itself
to us daily by living in and through the earth. One message of
Christianity, therefore, is celebration of the bodily, material
world - ancient redwoods, vernal springs, broad-winged hawks,
everyday pigweed - as the place that God indwells and cares for in
order to maintain the well-being of our common planetary home.
Alongside his green reading of the Bible and tradition, Wallace
employs the resources of deep ecology, Neopagan spirituality, and
the environmental justice movement to rethink Christianity as an
earth-based, body-loving religion. He also analyzes color images
reproduced in the book. Wallace's bold yet careful work reawakens
our sense of the sacrality of the earth and the life that the
trinitarian God creates there. It also grounds the impulses of New
Age spirituality in a profoundly biblical notion of God's being and
activity.
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