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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History

    Edited by Dr Aviezer Tucker, Dr David Cernín ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosophers, historians, and scientists, it acts as a valuable guide for anybody interested in scientific knowledge of the deep past, Big History, and the philosophy of science.The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • Plant-derived Pharmaceuticals

    Principles and Applications for Developing Countries

    by Rima Menassa, Karen McDonald, Shawn Chen, Inga Hitzeroth, Gregory Pogue, Pascal Drake, Andreas Günter Lössl, M A D'Aoust, David Aviezer, Elizabeth Loza Rubio, John Howard, Carla Marusic, Somen Nandi ...
    Series series CABI Biotechnology Series
    Describing recent developments in the engineering and generation of plants as production platforms for biopharmaceuticals, this book includes both vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. It has a particular emphasis on targeting diseases which predominate in less developed countries, encompassing the current state of technologies and describing expression systems and applications. This book also ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Polycentric Governance and the Good Society

    A Normative and Philosophical Investigation

    by W. Elliot Bulmer, Dries Daems, Mark Hoipkemier, Pablo Paniagua, Kaveh Pourvand, Alexander Schaefer, Vlad Tarko, John Thrasher, David Thunder, Aviezer Tucker1, Pilar Zambrano2 ...
    Series series Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
    Polycentric Governance and the Good Society: A Normative and Philosophical Investigation offers an examination of the idea of polycentric governance as one of the pillars of a flourishing human society. Rather than following the conventional path of suppressing complexity and diversity for the sake of reaching agreement on justice and political stability, David Thunder and Pablo Paniagua see ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State

    by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne, Ayesha Jalal, Leonard Kaplan, Elizabeth Mensch, John Milbank, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Aviezer Ravitzky, Lobsang Sangay, David A. Skeel Jr., Regina M. Schwartz, Arnold M. Eisen, Lenn E. Goodman, Nicholas Wolterstorff ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily unfriendly to the liberal state, but neither philosophical analysis nor empirical argument ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Samir Okasha ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science, and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these. Starting at the very ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

    by Samir Okasha ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is science? Is there a real difference between science and myth? Is science objective? Can science explain everything? This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. Beginning with a short history of science to set the scene, Samir Okasha goes on to investigate the nature of scientific reasoning, scientific explanation, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Models of Democracy

    by David Held ...
    The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Theory and Reality

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inventing the Universe

    Why we can't stop talking about science, faith and God

    by Dr Alister E McGrath ...
    We just can't stop talking about the big questions around science and faith. They haven't gone away, as some predicted they might; in fact, we seem to talk about them more than ever. Far from being a spent force, religion continues to grow around the world. Meanwhile, Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists argue that religion is at war with science - and that we have to choose between them.It's time ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD