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How do we communicate the wonders of science to children and young adults? This book presents 100 common science questions and provides simple answers with illustrations such as: Why is the sky blue? and, Why are there seasons?

Robert G Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a complex figure - a brilliant lawyer and orator who courageously advanced the concept of free-thought; a magnetic extrovert whose public esteem, eagerly sought, never earned him the private favours he so generously bestowed on others. This work explores the life and thought of this figure.

Seeks to raise the consciousness of counsellors regarding the ethical dimensions of their professional behaviour. This book provides helping professionals with an opportunity to explore their own ethical values within the context of problematic situations and, in doing so, become better prepared to serve their clients.

From its founding in 1980, "Free Inquiry" magazine has been 'on the barricades' in America's civil struggle between the forces of tolerance, reason, and humanism, and those of religious dogmatism. It enlisted a band of contributors to affirm freedoms of thought and self-determination. This title collects various "Free Inquiry" articles.

Why be moral? This book offers an answer to this question - a question that reaches in to grasp at the very heart of ethics itself. It also shows us that skirmishes among supporters of specific moral principles require a different sort of resolution than those that occur between groups of ethical principles.

For over forty years, Dr Marvin Brown served the medical needs of the inhabitants in and around a small town in central New York State. Throughout the challenges, frustrations, rewards, and triumphs of his chosen path, Dr Brown was blessed with the unfailing love and support of his beloved wife and children. This book talks about Dr Marvin Brown.

A group of scholars met at the State University of New York at Buffalo to share their thoughts on the nature of humans as rational animals. Drawing from the meeting, these essays discuss about the nature and extent of rationality - its content, focus, and the intrinsic guidelines for using the term "rational" when describing persons or actions.

Tells the story of Heinz Hartmann's struggles, tragedies, and joys. This book offers stories about his medical practice, the similarities and differences he has discovered between various religions, and the 'missionaries' who have tried to convert him. It is the story of a doctor who has spent his life healing the scars left by the Nazis.

In an age of terrorism, religious skirmishing, global revolution and counterrevolution, political assassinations, moral conflict, and unceasing turmoil, there are many ideas and concepts that remain in desperate need of clarification not the least of these are fanaticism and hypocrisy. This book sheds light on these concepts.

Giving you an insight into the complexities of intimate relationships, this book presents couple survival strategies which involve effective communication, expression of love and sexual intimacy, becoming effective problem-solvers, developing the fine art of negotiating a compromise, learning techniques of constructive arguing, and others.

Integrates personality theories, including the ideas of Freud, with Piaget's theory of cognitive development and modern theories of the emotions.

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report calling for the total reassessment of policy and curriculum governing American education. The commission's findings were met with impassioned interest and volcanic debate. This work presents a compilation of essays, which covers five areas of investigation.

What is value? What makes things good? This book presents a different answer to these age-old questions through the author's adaptation of linguistic analysis and phenomenological methodology.

Eric Kaminsky, a 22-year-old music student was robbed, stabbed, and then thrown on the tracks of a New York City subway, where he died. Here, Eric's mother gives an account of this senseless tragedy. She describes the pain she suffers from the loss of her only child and exposes the inadequacies of our flawed criminal justice system.

Before Margaret Mead, even before Ruth Benedict, it was Elsie Clews Parsons who paved the way as the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association. Born into a prominent New York family in 1874, Parsons showed early determination to be free of social constraints.

Examining many dimensions of marriage and sexual activity recorded in the Bible and other ancient religious texts, this book analyzes the effect of these documents on our present culture. It also utilizes the methods and insights from literary, historical, and cultural studies.

Provides an analysis of the purpose, justification, and legitimacy of government.

Many hate crimes such as an armed assault on a Jewish community centre in Los Angeles, have been linked to white supremacists and are painful reminders that violent bigotry remains stubbornly entrenched in American culture. This work features a collection of essays which explore the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America.

Aims to engage in a dialogue with the millions of the indifferent, the undecided, the don't knows and the don't cares who carry on pretending without any real conviction.

Humanity reaps the various advantages of science while bemoaning the frequent misapplications and abuses of modern technology. This title offers insights into both the philosophy and the sociology of science.

Examines what happened to Newton's science as it was interpreted by his major followers. The authors also look at the scientific culture that Newton helped to create and the impact that his ideas had on the rapidly developing technology that led to the Industrial Revolution.

A consensus among many scientists, educators, and members of mainline churches is that 'scientific creationism' does not warrant a place in the public school science curriculum. This book looks behind creationism's mask to provide an understanding of what creationists believe and what strategies they employ to achieve their sectarian goals.

Demonstrates how Pullman retells two prominent works of British literature - C S Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and John Milton's "Paradise Lost". This book says that Pullman's aim is to counter Lewis' pro-Christian allegory with his own anti-Christian allegory.

One of the more exciting ways to grapple with philosophical questions, positions, and arguments, is through philosophical fiction. This collection presents philosophically interesting science fiction. It provides an introduction to philosophy of science fiction and an introduction to science fiction for the philosophically inclined.

Rejects the pabulum of more laws, more money, more enforcement personnel, and more jails as the road to victory in the 'war on drugs'. This work documents the failure of the drug war and the erroneous premise central to its destructive and doomed strategy: the idea that drug taking controls human behaviour; that drugs 'cause' physical dependency.

Presents a collection of topical essays. Pivoting the analysis on news-making events, this book exposes the fallacies of our penchant for interpreting the behaviour of 'sane' persons as goal-directed and therefore sensible, and the behaviour of 'insane' persons as caused by a 'mental illness' and therefore senseless.

Talking about political philosophy, this book explores the essentials of good government; compares and contrasts despotism, monarchy, and democracy; and discusses the factors that lead to corruption of governments. It also considers many other topics such as education of the citizenry, crime and punishment, and abuse of power and of liberty.

Published at the beginning of the twentieth century, Mark Twain's humorous vision of the afterlife reflects the new scientific awareness of the awesome cosmos that confronts us and the feelings of insignificance this discovery produced.

Features essays which are the proceedings of a conference on the importance of Irving Singer's work, reflecting his interests and focusing on his key distinction between love as appraisal and love as bestowal. This book assesses Singer's view of love.