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How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

by Francis A. Schaeffer

As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society’s state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God’s revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible’s morals, values, and meaning. How Should We... (more)

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion --... (more)

The Confessions of St. Augustine

by Augustine

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the... (more)

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul

by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett

Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's I is a searching, probing nook--a cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike fiction of Lem and Princess... (more)

Mathematics in Western Culture (Galaxy Books)

Mathematics in Western Culture (Galaxy Books)

by Morris Kline

This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life.

Paul's Idea of Community

by Robert J. Banks

Robert Bank's widely read Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in their Cultural Setting is once again available to laypeole, pastors and scholars alike. In this extensively revised edition Banks has rewritten chapters for clarity, taken into account recent scholarship on Paul's writings, updated and expanded the bibliography, and added an index. This new edition retains, however, all the freshness... (more)

Fundamentals of Waves, Optics and Modern Physics (McGraw-Hill series in fundamentals of physics)Hugh D. Young

Fundamentals of Waves, Optics and Modern Physics (McGraw-Hill series in fundamentals of physics)

by Hugh D. Young

Multivariate Statistical Methods (Duxbury Advanced Series)

Multivariate Statistical Methods (Duxbury Advanced Series)

by Donald F. Morrison

MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODS fills a void in the marketplace, striking a crucial balance between the technical information and real-world applications of multivariate statistics. Donald Morrison has taught this course at the Wharton School for 33 years, and he has integrated his demonstrably successful teaching style into this textbook.

Saint Luke (Westminster Pelican commentaries)

Saint Luke (Westminster Pelican commentaries)

by G. B. Caird

8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 271pp. The Pelican Gospel Commentaries.

Introduction to Physics for Scientists and EngineersFrederick J. Bueche

Introduction to Physics for Scientists and Engineers

by F. Bueche

Special Relativity (Mit Introductory Physics Series)

Special Relativity (Mit Introductory Physics Series)

by A. P. French

A self-contained introduction to special relativity for students who have completed an introduction to classical mechanics. The book covers the transition from Newtonian to Einsteinian behaviour for electrons, the relativistic expressions for mass, momentum and energy of particles. Later chapters cover the Lorentz transformations, the laws of kinematics and dynamics according to special relativity. The approach... (more)

The MOSCOW PUZZLES. 359 Mathematical Recreations. Edited, with an Introduction, by Martin Gardner.

The Light Fantastic (Pelican)Peter Mason

The Light Fantastic (Pelican)

by Peter Mason

Family, Sex and Marriage in England (Penguin History)

Family, Sex and Marriage in England (Penguin History)

by Lawrence Stone

This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.

The Magic Army

by Leslie Thomas

This English novel, not yet published in America, depicts a little-known chapter in World War II when American troops took over a part of South Devon to train for the Normandy invasion. Multiple storylines make for an engrossing presentation, creating a compassionate picture of wartime training and romance, English resentment of rich Americans, and the politics of multinational armies. Peter Whitman's strength is... (more)

Doubt: Faith in Two Minds (Aslan Paperbacks)Os Guinness