Origins

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Lindell Bromham
Origins of Biodiversity: An Introduction to Macroevolution and Macroecology
Origins of Biodiversity is a unique introduction to the fields of macroevolution and macroecology, which explores the evolution and distribution of biodiversity across time, space and lineages. Using an enquiry-led framework to encourage active learning and critical thinking, each chapter is based ...
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Angelo Di Berardino
Origins and Significance of Christian Feasts
Origins and Significance of Christian Feasts is a deeply researched yet accessible volume that illuminates the evolution of Christianity's major festivals from their ancient roots to the modern day. Drawing from an extensive study of historical sources, the book provides a comprehensive exploration ...
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Samuel Moyn
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics
The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history of t...
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Jim Baggott
Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This bo...
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C. Vann Woodward
Origins of the New South, 1877–1913: A History of the South
Winner of the Bancroft Prize After more than two decades, Origins of the New South is still recognized both as a classic in regional historiography and as the most perceptive account yet written on the period which spawned the New South. Historian Sheldon Hackney recently summed it up this way...
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Frank H. T. Rhodes
Origins: The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
"Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional...
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Deborah B. Haarsma
Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
When it comes to the history of the universe, many believe that science and faith are mutually exclusive. But in this revised version of Origins, physics professors Loren and Deborah Haarsma explore what God's Word and God's world teach us about creation, evolution, and intelligent design. Clearly ...
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Stan Lee
Origins of Marvel Comics (Deluxe Edition)
Now back in print and timed for its 50th anniversary—the landmark book Origins of Marvel Comics by Stan Lee! A deluxe, collector’s edition of the original Origins of Marvel Comics including a new cover, essays, and more. Originally published in 1974, Origins of Marvel Comics features th...
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Andrew Collins
Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences
A detailed examination of the role played by shamanism and communication with higher intelligences in the development of ancient civilizations • Explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with nonhuman intelligences • Shares supportin...
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Prof Sue Taylor Taylor Parker
Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Since Darwin's time, comparative psychologists have searched for a good way to compare cognition in humans and nonhuman primates. In Origins of Intelligence, Sue Parker and Michael McKinney offer such a framework and make a strong case...
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Rory Cox
Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East
A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigure...
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Michael Tomasello
Origins of Human Communication (Jean Nicod Lectures)
A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative...
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Patricia T. O'Conner
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-inform...
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JIANG
ORIGINS OF MORAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN EARLY CHINA
This book rewrites the story of classical Chinese philosophy, which has always been considered the single most creative and vibrant chapter in the history of Chinese philosophy. Works attributed to Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi and many others represent the very origins...
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Diana Fedorak
Origins Progeny (Children of Alpheios)
The gripping sequel to Children of Alpheios, Firebird Award Winner for Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, and Dystopian. Alina DeHerte thought she had escaped Alpheios, the genetically engineered city on planet Eamine. After rescuing her son from its corrupt rulers, she built a fresh life with ...
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Austin Allen
Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court, 1837-1857 (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single issue―slavery...
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Jonathan Shuerger
Origins: A Shades of Black Anthology (Shades of Black Origins)
Everything has a beginning. Before the heroes and horrors of In Darkness Cast and Afterlight , before the wars that sundered Heaven and Hell, there were moments—small and vast—that set the darkness in motion. Shades of Black: Origins gathers those moments into one legendary volume, reveal...
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Jake Grogan
Origins of a Story: 202 true inspirations behind the world's greatest literature
For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world's greatest literature! Did you know Lennie from Of Mice and Men was based on a real person? Or how about that Charlotte's Web was based on an actual spid...
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Kurt A. A. Raaflaub
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
“Who can ask for better cosmic tour guides?” ―Michio Kaku Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring ...
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