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Science and Religion (A Very Short Introduction) by DIXON THOMAS
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like The God Delusion and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these ...Show more
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Category: History
Climate change, energy crises, environmental pressures, population stress, economic instability and inequity: is this a world on the brink of catastrophe? There's reason to think so. But, as this crucial new book explains, these 'tectonic stresses', massive and frightening though they are, are not the e ...Show more
The Upside of Down: The End of the World as We Know it, and Why That May Not be Such a Bad Thing by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Category: Culture
Winner, Canada's National Business Book Award Climate change, energy crises, environmental pressures, population stress, economic instability and inequity: is this a world on the brink of catastrophe? There's reason to think so. But, as this crucial new book explains, these 'tectonic stresses', ma ...Show more
WEEPING BRITANNIA PORTRAIT OF A NATION by DIXON THOMAS
Category: History
There is a persistent myth about the British: that they are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia--the first history of crying in Britain--comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the national char ...Show more
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