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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dr ashley lebner”
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  • Science, Religion, and Secularity

    The View from Relations

    Edited by Dr. Ashley Lebner, Dr. Yunus Dogan Telliel ...
    Series series Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
    Can the often-conflicted relationship between science and religion be seen in new light? In this volume, Ashley Lebner, Yunus Dogan Telliel, and their contributors show that engaging secularity and its constitutive relations can take science-religion debates onto new terrain.Increasing antagonism towards science and scientists in the twenty-first century is often explained simplistically by ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Faith Versus Fact

    Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

    by Jerry A. Coyne ...
    The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Law ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists, often find themselves misunderstood, and occasionally misrepresented.Stephen Law explores how humanism uses science and reason to make sense of the ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Beyond the Hoax

    Science, Philosophy and Culture

    by Alan Sokal ...
    In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • Introducing Philosophy of Science

    A Graphic Guide

    by Ziauddin Sardar ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    What do scientists actually do? Is science "value-free"? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? "Introducing Philosophy of Science" is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves. ... Read more

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  • Sam Harris: Critical Responses

    Edited by Sandra Woien ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Responses
    Sam Harris sparked off the unexpected phenomenon of the New Atheism with his best-seller The End of Faith (2004), and has since authored five more best-sellers on different topics, as well as becoming a leading presence on social media. His blog Making Sense has an enormous popular following.Harris is celebrated as an opponent of theistic religion, a warning voice against the menace of Islamism, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Are the Humanities For?

    by Willem B. Drees ...
    What are the humanities for? The question has perhaps never seemed more urgent. While student numbers have grown in higher education, universities and colleges increasingly have encouraged students to opt for courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or take programs in applied subjects like business and management. When tertiary learning has taken such a notably ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The End of Man

    A Feminist Counterapocalypse

    by Joanna Zylinska ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropesWhere the Anthropocene has become linked to an apocalyptic narrative, and where this narrative carries a widespread escapist belief that salvation will come from a supernatural elsewhere, Joanna Zylinska has a different take. The End of Man rethinks the prophecy of the end of humans, interrogating the rise in populism around the world ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Social Science and Historical Perspectives

    Society, Science, and Ways of Knowing

    by Jack David Eller ...
    This accessible book introduces the story of ‘social science’, with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography.Key questions include:How and why did the social sciences originate and differentiate?How are they related to older traditions that have defined Western civilization?What is the unique perspective or ‘way of knowing’ of each social science ... Read more

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  • Unfinished

    The Anthropology of Becoming

    Edited by João Biehl, Peter Locke ...
    This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology, and writing. The contributors creatively bridge ethnography and critical theory in a range of ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • After World Religions

    Reconstructing Religious Studies

    by Christopher R Cotter, David G. Robertson ...
    Series series Religion in Culture
    The World Religions Paradigm has been the subject of critique and controversy in Religious Studies for many years. After World Religions provides a rationale for overhauling the World Religions curriculum, as well as a roadmap for doing so. The volume offers concise and practical introductions to cutting-edge Religious Studies method and theory, introducing a wide range of pedagogical situations ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD