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Practical Therapeutics
Edward John Waring
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Discovery Miles 29 240
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More than two hundred years ago, Dr. William Paley wrote a series
of books that marshaled evidence for the Christian faith. His books
were often required reading at major institutions of learning.
Believers and unbelievers alike wrestled with Paley's arguments and
his compelling presentation of them. Paley's Natural Theology was
one of those books. In it, he showed from biology and human anatomy
that the argument for design was a clear and self-evident inference
from the facts, and from that point of departure proposed that only
a designer God could adequately account for those facts. His famous
analogy from an intricate watch to the required deduction that
there exists a watchmaker persists to this day. When evolutionary
theory rose to dominance, it was thought that Paley's views on
'intelligent design' had been fully put to rest. However, each new
generation discovers anew that evolutionary theory requires them to
accept as true what appears, on its face, to be patently absurd:
that immense complexity, surpassing in its apparent genius what
1,000 human geniuses cannot create was nonetheless the product of
unguided, intrinsically dumb, natural forces. Unsatisfied, they
consider the alternatives. The argument is sure to rage for another
two hundred years and Dr. Paley's Natural Theology will prove to be
relevant then as it is relevant today, advances in our
understanding of biology notwithstanding, and, actually, because of
those very same advances. "I do not think I hardly ever admired a
book more than Paley's Natural Theology: I could almost formerly
have said it by heart." Charles Darwin, 1859.
MEGA-CITY ONE IS UNDER SIEGE! Mega-City One's a powderkeg waiting
to blow on its best day. There isn't a moment when tensions aren't
running high and the city isn't ready to crack. But there's
something new going on: block war. It's Block Mania, and no one is
immune, not even the Judges. But this is all prelude to invasion.
The East-Meg One Sovs have infected Mega-City One with Block Mania
to throw the city into massive, bloody turf wars. There are troops
on the ground, bombs are dropping and the Big Meg is on fire. And
the Judges are drawing the line. Apocalypse War Dossier tells the
on-the-ground stories of the Judges of Mega-City One during the
events of the epic Block Mania and Apocalyse War story arcs.
Based on exclusive and unrestricted access to more than 5,000 pages
of personal writings and family photos, this definitive biography
of German physician and SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Josef Mengele
(1911-1979) probes the personality and motivations of Auschwitz's
"Angel of Death." From May 1943 through January 1945, Mengele
selected who would be gassed immediately, who would be worked to
death, and who would serve as involuntary guinea pigs for his
spurious and ghastly human experiments (twins were Mengele's
particular obsession). With authority and insight, Mengele examines
the entire life of the world's most infamous doctor.
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Practical Therapeutics
Edward John Waring
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R2,608
R2,464
Discovery Miles 24 640
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In A Pueblo Social History, John Ware challenges modern
anthropologists to break down the walls between archaeology and
ethnography in order to obtain a more complete understanding of
Pueblo prehistory in the American Southwest. This book stands or
falls on two arguments. The first is Pueblo ethnographies by early
scholars - including Cushing, Bandelier, and Fewkes who were
simultaneously ethnographers and archaeologists and therefore
incorporated origin stories, migration narratives, and other oral
traditions along with lines of evidence such as artifacts and
architecture - are more than speculative analogies. Pueblo
ethnographies are end points on trajectories that preserve
important information about the contingent histories of Pueblo
social practises and institutions. Ware argues that archaeologists
and other historical scholars need to put aside their biases and
become, once again, serious students of the historical
ethnographies. The second argument is that a solid understanding of
kinship theory is required to understand social practises in Pueblo
prehistory. Ware claims that modern Southwestern archaeologists
have gone the other way, convincing themselves that answers to
kinship questions cannot be derived from the material data of deep
prehistory. A Pueblo Social History does not pretend to offer a
comprehensive map for the change in approach but rather seeks to
provoke much-needed discussion.
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