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  • God? Very Probably

    Five Rational Ways to Think about the Question of a God

    by Robert H. Nelson ...
    In recent years, a number of works have appeared with important implications for the age-old question of the existence of a god. These writings, many of which are not by theologians, strengthen the rational case for the existence of a god, even as this god may not be exactly the Christian God of history. This book brings together for the first time such recent diverse contributions from fields ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Century for Natural Resources Management

    by Vawter Parker, Peter Berck, Robert Costanza, Steward Pickett, James Kennedy, Jack Ward Thomas, Richard Ostfeld, Susan Kay Jacobson, Jeff DeBonis, Mark Brunson, Gloria Helfand, Winifred Kessler, Rupert Cutler, Robert H. Nelson, Curt Meine, Thomas Michael Power ...
    This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management.The book is an important overview for wildlife ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Making of Federal Coal Policy

    by Robert H. Nelson ...
    Series series Duke Press policy studies
    The Making of Federal Coal Policy provides a unique record of—as well as important future perspectives on—one of the most significant ideological conflicts in national policymaking in the last decade. The management of federally owned coal, almost one-third of the U.S.'s total coal resources, has furnished an arena for the contest between energy development and environmental protection, as well as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Economics as Religion

    From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond

    by Robert H. Nelson ...
    Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient Greece through the traditions that Nelson identifies as “Protestant” and “Roman,” and on into modern ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Wealth of Nations

    by Adam Smith ...
    An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations generally referred to by its shortened title "The Wealth of Nations", is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Bold Scientists

    Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science

    by Michael Riordon ...
    As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems the powerful have declared a war on science.Michael Riordon asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional knowledge and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • How Would Jesus Vote?

    A Christian Perspective on the Issues

    by Jerry Newcombe, Dr. D. James Kennedy ...
    The 2008 election is shaping up to be one of the most important political contests in American history. In fact, Dr. D. James Kennedy believes it will be a watershed moment that could impact our very survival as a nation under God.Values voters–people whose political views and votes are based on their faith in God–are being targeted as never before. As we move forward in the campaign season, the ... Read more

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  • Polluted Inheritance

    New Zealand’s Freshwater Crisis

    by Mike Joy ...
    Series Book 36 - BWB Texts
    The parlous state of our freshwater ecosystems is just one signal that we face a more widespread, and unprecedented, environmental crisis.New Zealand’s dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden and not so hidden costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • UnChristianed Nation

    What Would a U.S. Christian Nation Look Like?

    by Steve Dustcircle ...
    Why America isn't, and should never be, a "Christian Nation."Many Americans call themselves Christians, and say that America is a Christian nation. This book takes the Christian's own text--the Bible--and turns it against them, showing U.S. Christians that if America were indeed a "Christian nation," the evidence isn't there.Steve Dustcircle attacks the theocratic mentality point by point, using ... Read more

    $1.25 USD

  • Fossil Capital

    The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

    by Andreas Malm ...
    A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Religion in the Ranks

    Belief and Religious Experience in the Canadian Forces

    by Joanne Rennick ...
    What role does religion play in the Canadian Forces today? Examining the changing functions of the official religious leaders in the chaplaincy as well as the place and purpose of religion in the lives of regular military personnel, Religion in the Ranks explores this question in the context of late modernity and the Canadian secular state.In-depth interviews with chaplains and with personnel of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    by James Gustave Speth ...
    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD