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Introduction to Crystallographic Statistics (International Union of Crystallography Book Series)
Uri Shmueli , and
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Modern structural applications of crystallography make extensive use of statistical methods, in particular the probability density function (pdf) of the magnitude of the structure factor. Similarly, direct methods of phase determination have been responsible for much of the success of crystallography - methods based on properties of joint pdfs. This monograph, from two authorities in the field of structure factor statics, presents a survey of techniques and theories in this field of research in a self-contained and consistent way, with an emphasis on the probabilistic principles involved.
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In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory," local school boards and state legislatures were still wrangling over the teaching of origins--and nearly half of all Americans polled believed in the recent special creation of the first humans. Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out by Darwin in On the Origin of Species? Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Ronald Numbers gets to the heart of this question.
Judiciously assessing the facts, Numbers refutes a host of widespread misconceptions: about the impact of Darwin's work on the religious ideas of scientists, about the character of the issues that exercised scientists of the immediate post-Darwin generation, about the Scopes trial of 1925 and its consequences for American schools, and about the regional and denominational distribution of pro- and anti-evolutionary sentiments.
Displaying the expertise that has made Numbers one of the most respected historians of his generation, Darwinism Comes to America provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle.
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First-rate historical analysis.......2007-07-11
Numbers' fascinating and extremely well-researched book is the story of an ongoing religious tragedy, in which a small group of radical biblical literalists have managed, as one writer put it, to take a beautiful creation myth and ruin it. Their idea is that the Bible should be considered a book of scientific fact, a position that makes scripture forever hostage to the latest scientific findings. It's a move that is sheerly breathtaking in its foolishness. By pursuing this misbegotten agenda, all the literalists can accomplish is to inflict enormous harm on the credibility of religion in its proper sphere. Well, that plus getting lots of attention for themselves, selling lots of books, and doing very nicely on the lecture circuit. With friends like these, religion needs no enemies. Their counterparts on the opposite side (e.g, Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens, et al.) are doing equally well preaching to their own choir. It's a very profitable arrangement, if you think about it, and for that very reason the lamentable charade seems destined to go on ad nauseum. Science will hardly notice, leaving religion itself and the important personal and societal functions that it serves as the only losers.
The great truths of religion do not depend on the particular facts of history or science, and it is a disastrous mistake to trivialize them in that way. To put shallow scriptural literalism in the place of the deep and timeless expressions of poetry, parable, and metaphor is about the most self-undermining move that any religion can make. John Dominic Crossen had it right when he wrote that "those ancient people told smart, metaphorical stories that we were now dumb enough to take literally." Or cynical enough. There is no excuse for this squabble otherwise.
This is a brief (only 135 pages of text) and fast-moving account of the history of this confrontation, and how it has waxed and waned, based on an enormous volume of source materials. We find that a great many common assumptions about the nature and origins of the dispute do not hold up to the evidence. For example, it is surprising how, after having pretty well died away in the late 1920s, this dispute re-emerged to take on really significant proportions in the 1970s, due largely to a key change in strategy by ultra-literalist anti-evolutionists: a demand for creationism to get equal time in the schools, rather than for the teaching of evolution to be eliminated. Some school districts discouraged lawsuits for equal time, though, because they were already teaching straight creationism -- equal time would only force them to add the teaching of evolution! The huge role of the Seventh Day Adventists in the rise of the most radical form of young earth, flood geology creationism ("creation science") that emerged in the 1970s, was news to me. The chapter on the Scopes Trial and the way it was interpreted in various quarters is very good. I had forgotten that Scopes had never actually taught Darwinism, or even biology, and I did not know that Darrow was so arrogant and overbearing that the ACLU tried to dump him from the defense team. There are interesting facts like these throughout the book, and a whole raft of larger-than-life personalities. Overall, the entire landscape is more complicated and various than I had imagined, with many more twists and turns than typical media accounts and even the work of respected historians has suggested. Numbers does a terrific job of describing the views that distinguish naturalistic evolutionists, theistic evolutionists, intelligent-design theorists, old-Earth creationists, and scientific (young-Earth) creationists, views that span a very great distance, indeed. The book is a page-turner and well worth reading.
The Creationist-Evolutionist Debate: The Real Story.......2000-07-30
University of Wisconsin historian of science Ronald L. Numbers has written with grace, clarity and empathy an easy-to-read, interesting, informative, fascinating book. Readers who desire to be well-versed on one of the most controversial issues of the day should both enjoy reading it and find that it dispels "myths and misconceptions that still cling" to popular, journalisitic, and scholarly knowledge about the reaction of Christians and non-believers to Darwinian evolution. Beginning in 1860 with Asa Gray, the first American Christian Darwinian, Professor Numbers charts the reaction of scholarly believers from such leading scientists as Louis Agassiz (who opposed Darwinism) to James D. Dana (who first opposed, then accepted a theistic form of evolution) to the American statesman William Jennings Bryan ( who opposed Darwinism not so much for its biological conclusions but because the survival-of-the fittest doctrine bolstered anti-democratic elitist, racist and race-exterminationist movements like German militarism and Naziism) to the theistic evolutionists and the aniti-evolutionist flood geologists of the twentieth century. Among the myths and misconceptions the author exposes is the belief that the 1960 motion picture INHERIT THE WIND is a true account of what really happened at the Monkey (Scopes) "trial of the century" in 1925. Despite the fact that most Americans only know what they know about the trial because of the film, in fact, INHERIT THE WIND is a terribly distorted, biased portrait of the trial and the issues; anyone who relies on it for historical knowledge is foolish. Another myth exposed is that creationism is no longer believed by most Americans because Darwin's views totally triumphed after the Scopes trial. In fact, Darwin's original thesis was largely questioned by scientists by 1900. Then emerged the neo-Darwinian synthesis, which is in various forms is the prevailing theory today, but even now evolutionists themselves are widely divided on the details of evolution, and some reputable scholars, albeit a minority of the scientific establishment, question the validity of neo-Darwinian theory. Furthermore, despite the "nearly unanimous endorsement of naturalisitic evolution by leading biologists," belief that the universe and humans were created by God runs deep in the United States and Canada. In 1993, for instance, 47 percent of Americans believed that "God created man pretty much in his present form at one time within the last 10,000 years," an additional 35 percent thought that the process of evolution had been "divinely guided," and "58 percent of the public favored teaching creationism in the schools." Professor Numbers demonstrates conclusively that the current evolution-creation debate is not simply between anti-scientific religious zealots who believe in an earth no older than 10,000 years and atheistic evolutionists. Instead, a wide spectrum of views exists. At one end are rabid scientists like the famous biologist who announced that he believes in evolution despite its many unanswered questions because of a rather unscientific quasi-religious commitment to atheistic materialism. At the other end are the self-styled scientific creationists who, notwithstanding powerful evidence to the contrary, believe the earth was created 10,000 years ago and that fossils showing the earth is billiions of years old were deposited by a universal flood four to six thousand years ago. In between are religiously committed, mostly Christian, reputable scientists who hold either theisitc evolution (God used evolutionary processes to create), progressive creationism (God used evolution to create but punctuated it with perioidic special creations of new species including the special creation of human beings), to the new Intelligent Design theory (whether or not there has been evolution, the universe provides indispuitable evidence that there is a great designer--God--who is responsible for it all). And so the debate goes on, and is not likely any time soon, if ever, to end with victory for any of the parties. DARWINISM COMES TO AMERICA is an exceptionally valuable book containing, in addition to the observations heretofore described, many other insights and delights to titillate inquiring minds. No one should say another word about evolution and creation until they have read this book.
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Written within 15 years after the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, these 20 articles indicate the reactions of American social, scientific, and religious circles to the Darwinian concept of evolution.
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Title: Darwinism Comes to America.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Michael Ruse
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Date: August 1, 1999
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 34
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Darwinism Comes to America.: An article from: Church History
Walter H. Jr. Conser
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Title: Darwinism Comes to America.
Author: Walter H. Jr. Conser
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Darwinism Comes to America. Primary Sources in American History
George Daniels
Manufacturer: Anthology with extensive commentary of the reactions of Americans in the first twenty years after the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species. Primary Sources in American History. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell, [1968]. 1st Printing. [xx]+137+[3]pp. Trade paperback. A very good copy. (OP). eng.
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Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays
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Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study (Masterworks of Discovery)
ASIN: 0198236026 |
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The Physics is one of Aristotle's masterpieces - a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causation and explanation, chance, teleology, the infinite, the nature of time, the critique of atomism, the role of mathematics in Aristotle's physics, and the concept of self-motion. The essays offer fresh approaches to Aristotle's work in these areas, and important new interpretations of his thought. The book also contains an extensive bibliography.
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good........1999-11-21
this book reminded me of me.i think if you want to know me better then you should buy this truly spectacular book.thank you for your cooperation nation.
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This digital document is an article from The Review of Metaphysics, published by Philosophy Education Society, Inc. on September 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1049 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Aristotle's 'Physics': A Collection of Essays.
Author: Robert Mayhew
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The Review of Metaphysics (Refereed)
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Around the Bend: A Mississippi River Adventure
C. C. Lockwood
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ASIN: 0807123129 |
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Homer Meets Huck Finn.......1999-06-29
When Federico Garcia Lorca said, "The song, the picture, are only water drawn from the well of the people, and given back to them in a cup of beauty, so that in drinking, they know themselves," he envisaged works such as this: cups of beauty filled with commonplace things. You will never see the Great River in the same light again. A lush and extravagant work accomplished by one of America's premier photographers from a raft as it noodles its way from the river's source to its mouth. Along the way, you meet Willie the river hobo and the nutria, the regulars and occasionals who ply the river for fun or profit.
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With so many fun car characters, kids won’t be able to choose from all the cool tattoos that come with this coloring book.
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Tattoos were worth it!.......2007-05-09
I bought these for my 4 year olds birthday party. I really wanted cars tattoos and couldn't find any in the stores. Just for those, it was totally worth i
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Will Sabrina Finally Find Her Place in the New World?
Sabrina Fairfax was raised in an elegant house with servants catering to her every desire. With her father's unexpected death, she finds herself impoverished and alone in London. Among his papers, however, she discovers a deed to a piece of land in the Colonies and seizes it as her best—and perhaps only—hope.
A mix-up lands Sion Kenyon, an out-of-work miner, in jail. Sabrina arranges his release on the condition that he accompany her to America as an indentured servant. They soon find that nothing is easy in this new land. And adding to the hardships of pioneer life is Sabrina's struggle with jealousy as she watches Sion's growing attraction for her friend and neighbor.
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to expense.......2006-02-27
read the reviews and the HIGH PRICE of almost $35 guess i;ll skip the last of this series""
Not what I expected.......2003-04-12
This final book of a great series was not anything like I expected. The first part of the book doesn't even take place in Appalachia, and key characters from previous books aren't even mentioned. It is still an uplifting story, but I felt that the final book could have been much better.
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Repetitive ..........2003-07-05
It was great to have the band members themselves give their view of things, but there's little that couldn't be summed up in a couple of pages. Instead you get countless variations on a few themes: John Fogerty loves the blues, CCR worked hard with John in control, John is a vindictive jerk.
It would have been nice to have heard from a broader range of people: childhood friends, early fans, etc.
GREAT Book CREEDIBLE Reading.......2001-06-20
if you love Creedence you'll love this book ,do yourslf a favour and read this book about your most favourite band . however not enough photos and they should have been in color .
Great story of CCR.......1999-07-15
I've enjoyed reading this book many times. I've like the fact that they talk about some of the good times.
A very good oral history of the band........1999-06-15
A very good book. It has comments from all the members of the band on the bands' rise, fall, and aftermath. The author does a good job of mixing old interviews with newer ones. He also inserts comments and observations on why the band, and John Fogerty in particular, have become such an american staple. It was interesting to read about J. Fogerty's approach to songwriting and music and also what some of the inspirations were behind his songs. Reading the band members' comments about what happened after was both insightful and sad. Cook and Clifford claim that J. Fogerty should accept some of the responsibility for the bad blood that is betwween them. While some of this may be true, C & C should also accept some of the blame for the bands' demise, which I feel they did not do. Call Fogerty whatever want, but he's the reason that the band rose to the top. It was his drive and determination and musical vision that enabled the band to reach the level of success that they attained.After the band split up, it is J. Fogerty's solo work that gets the interest and publcity. Cook and Cliffords solo careers? Ehhhhhh. I also feel that C & C should've supported Fogerty more in his battles with Saul Zantz. This book is a very good companion peice to Hank Bordowitz's "Bad Moon Rising: The Unofficial History of Creedence Clearwater Revival".
One of the greatest I've ever read........1999-05-22
If you are a big Creedence/John Fogerty fan you will enjoy this book. This book takes you step by step through just about every single thing that happened to Creedence from the time they started to the time they went their seperate ways and started new projects, recently. This book is actually priced too low, it should be priced a lot higher and you'll agree with me if you buy it and read it. It is wonderful.
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Around Ebarb and The Toledo Bend (LA) (Images of America)
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Jr. Travis Ebarb
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The Ebarb and Toledo Bend area of Louisiana has a fascinating and colorful history. Founded in 1716, the French Fort St. Jean Baptiste was the first settlement in the area, followed soon after by the Spanish Fort Los Adaes. Many have called this part of Louisiana home, including invading Spanish conquistadores, French trappers, and both Spanish and French missionaries. The area is also home to many Native American tribes who further contributed to the melting pot of customs, religions, food, and folklore that is so prevalent in the area's history.
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Around the Bend
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An eclectic, erotic, startling and fun collection of fiction and nonfiction. Includes the hilarious novella “God Vs Boilerroom McScam,” “The Lost Viagra Pill,” “Tight Jeans” and many others. Welcome to Around the Bend, dear reader. This collection of stories by Darrell Bain will both entice and entertain. Old friends to Darrell's writing will enjoy this collection, as it encompasses a wide range of writing styles and genres that have been written throughout the years. If you are a stranger to Darrell Bain, I can think of no better way of being introduced to his writing and creative wit. If you are an old friend, you will find this volume most entertaining, as it may introduce you to a side of Darrell you haven't seen. Darrell began writing science fiction with Robert A. Heinlein as his major influence, but later branched off into mystery, children's fiction, romance, adventure, military and humor. He is known for his Medics Wild! series, which is roughly based on his tour in Vietnam as a medic but has recently written, in collaboration with Jeanine Berry, a new series entitled The Sex Gates. This series, along with The Pet Plague and Space Pets, has enjoyed spectacular success, and all are expected to become science fiction classics.
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An eclectic, erotic and fun collection of science fiction, fantasy, humor and non-fiction by Darrell Bain, author of the best selling science fiction novel The Sex Gates. Includes the short novella God vs Boilerroom McScam. With an introduction by Deron Douglas.
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Around the Bend
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around the bend
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This is a book of poetry... rhyme and meter.
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