Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a "theology of the third-article" and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. The author investigates this claim, and argues for a Barthian pneumatology.
This book develops a scientific approach to the study of clinical acid-base physiology, giving emphasis to the areas of most significance in diagnosis and therapy.
How We Came to Believe in Gods, Demons, Miracles, & Magical Rites
Explains the apparently baffling phenomenon that educated people in industrialized countries believe in more than the physical world, just like people in all other times and places. Traces the evolution of the Christian god, man-gods, prophets, communion, and Bible stories. Also includes an survey
People have long been fascinated by the American alligator. Ever since humans arrived on the continent more than 15,000 years ago, the American alligator has been both feared and revered, celebrated and scorned, and often hunted for food and hide. Once tourism began to take hold in the South as a real industry, especially in Florida, the ......
When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in nonhuman animals. Beck showed that animals -- from insects to primates -- employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His work inspired and energized legions of ......
In this fourth volume of the “Secrets of the Forest”series, outdoor educator Mark Warren describes the details of how to make and operate the tools that hurl projectiles toward a target including:
· “firing” techniques of a sling, spear, atl-atl, bow and arrow, throwing knife, tomahawk, and blowgun.
· a comprehensive lesson in the art of archery ......
Drawing visitors to the heart of Chicago's north side for 135 years, Lincoln Park Zoo is one of the oldest and most popular zoos in America. This thorough and fascinating history of the zoo combines archival materials, photographs, and oral histories to chronicle the zoo's development and chart the unique role it has played not just in the growth ......
This book examines the vital role of swamps in the making of Australian culture, history, society, community, and language. The volume highlights the importance of the wetlands to indigenous Australian cultures, nineteenth-century European explorers and settlers, and contemporary conservationists and ecologists.
