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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert pollack”
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  • The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith

    Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science

    by Robert Pollack ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Are there parallels between the "moment of insight" in science and the emergence of the "unknowable" in religious faith? Where does scientific insight come from? Award-winning biologist Robert Pollack argues that an alliance between religious faith and science is not necessarily an argument in favor of irrationality: the two can inform each other's visions of the world.Pollack begins by reflecting ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility

    by David Shatz, Rivkah Teitz Blau, Shalom Carmy, Michelle Friedman, Basil Herring, Robert Pollack, Haim Sompolinsky, Moshe Halevi Spero, Rachel Yehuda0 ...
    Series series The Orthodox Forum Series
    Do human beings have free will? Are they genuinely responsible for their actions? These questions have persisted all through the history of philosophy, but in the 21st century they have become defined more sharply and clearly than ever. Indeed, a vivid and mighty tension underlies today's intellectual struggles over free will. On the one hand, the rapid advances of several empirical disciplines, ... Read more

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    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

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  • The Strange Order of Things

    Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

    by Antonio Damasio ...
    From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the ... Read more

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  • Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition

    Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

    by Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    Now updated with the latest research, this pioneering, accessible study argues for a more complex view of evolution—proposing there is more to heredity than just genes.In this revised edition the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb propose that there are four “dimensions” in heredity. These four inheritance systems play a role in evolution which, they argue, can ... Read more

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  • The God Gene

    How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes

    by Dean H. Hamer ...
    The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God; this conviction has existed since the beginning of recorded time and is shared by billions around the world. In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination towards religious faith is in good measure due to our genes and may even offer an evolutionary advantage by reducing stress, preventing disease, and extending life.Popular ... Read more

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  • Birth and Breastfeeding

    Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth

    by Michel Odent ...
    Humanity, argues Michel Odent, stands at a crossroads in the history of childbirth - and the direction we choose to take will have critical consequences. Until recently a woman could not have had a baby without releasing a complex cocktail of 'love hormones'. In many societies today, most women give birth without relying on the release of such a flow of hormones. Some give birth via caesarean ... Read more

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  • The Agile Gene

    How Nature Turns on Nurture

    by Matt Ridley ...
    “Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — Oliver SacksArmed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roles of genes and environment in shaping human behavior ... Read more

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  • Genomes and What to Make of Them

    by Barry Barnes, John Dupré ...
    The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits—and warnings of the dangers—of genomics have remained front-page news, with everyone agreeing that genomics has the potential to radically ... Read more

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  • Heavens on Earth

    The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

    by Michael Shermer ...
    A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael ShermerIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth.For millennia, religions ... Read more

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  • Myths Of Gender

    Biological Theories About Women And Men, Revised Edition

    by Anne Fausto-Sterling ...
    By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behind ideas about biologically based sex differences. Features a new chapter and afterward on recent biological breakthroughs. ... Read more

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  • Adam and the Genome

    Reading Scripture after Genetic Science

    by Scot McKnight, Daniel Harrell, Dennis Venema ...
    Genomic science indicates that humans descend not from an individual pair but from a large population. What does this mean for the basic claim of many Christians: that humans descend from Adam and Eve?Leading evangelical geneticist Dennis Venema and popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight combine their expertise to offer informed guidance and answers to questions pertaining to evolution, ... Read more

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