Out of this world poster designed to show the beauty of our solar system's bodies set against the Hubble Deep Field photo of the universe. Color-coded statistics offer more than a pretty picture by detailing specifics about each planet and other heavenly bodies. Whether a student, lover of all things space, stargazer or night-sky enthusiast, this ......
QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide to Space, Our Solar System, Planets and the Stars
As a student, stargazer, or lover of our galaxy, space and the infinite, there is no resource for this price that in 6 pages can show you the universe this completely yet succinctly. Expertly authored with balanced coverage, the number of detailed facts and answers to our questions about planets, our galaxy and the universe makes this the biggest ......
Rather than seeing science and religion as oppositional, in Origins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Cosmos Philip Rolnick demonstrates the remarkable compatibility of contemporary science and traditional Christian theology. Rolnick directly engages the challenges of evolutionary biology - its questions about design, natural selection, ......
Cosmology and theology share a long held relationship with one another, explaining as they do the constitution of the world and the interaction of forces. The author explores the history of this relationship, from ancient pre-scientific and theological explanations through to contemporary science and philosophy.
In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics. Logically enough, the book uses animal studies as a way into the subject, but it does so in unexpected ......
Reading the Cosmos continues and extends Jacques Maritain's spirited defence of natural philosophy as indispensable for an adequate account of the natural world. Drawing inspiration from such seminal works as Philosophy of Nature and Science and Wisdom, the essays in this volume span a wide range of issues of perennial interest to theologians, ......
Presents an introduction to various theories about the origins and evolution of the enormous cosmos. This book lays out the cosmological models based on M-theory, which suggests that our particular universe may be one of an unimaginable number of universes, each with its own set of physical laws.
Traces the whole natural history of how events in the near and far universe have influenced life on Earth. This book explores how the Earth's orbit and inclination have triggered past ice ages; and, the role that the ancient supernovae may have played in mass extinctions and genetic changes.
