In THE SELFLESS GENE, Charles Foster assesses the claims of Neo-Darwinists and Young Earth Creationists, demonstrating that orthodox Christianity is not incompatible with what evolutionary biology says about our world. The real issue, he argues, centres around the ethical implications of natural selection, and what such a system - based on selfishness, waste and death - might say about the loving creator God of the Christian faith. Intelligent, provocative and accessible, THE SELFLESS GENE offers the prospect of a reasoned dialogue between faith and scientific study, and a reconciliation of what are popularly seen as two opposing worldviews.

The Selfless Gene

Charles Foster

Hodder Hb

<p>Human religious experiences are remarkably uniform; many can be pharmacologically induced. Recent research into the neurology of religious experience has shown that, when worshipping or praying, a certain part of the brain, apparently dormant during other activities, becomes active. What does all this mean for those of faith and those with none? In this fascinating book barrister Charles Foster takes a survey of the evidence -- from shamans to medieval mystics, to out-of-body experiences and epilepsy, via Jerusalem and middle-class Christianity -- and assesses its significance. Written in short, accessible chapters, this is a fascinating tour of religious and mystical experiences and their relation to human physiology.</p>

Wired For God?: The biology of spiritual experience

Hodder Religious

The new edition of this popular working manual offers practitioners expert guidance on how to win and defend tripping and slipping cases. Intended as a one-stop text for readers who do not have time to research all the legal disciplines that may come into play in a trip or slip case, it covers all the relevant areas of law - Local Government, Landlord and Tenant, Occupier's Liability, Highways, Factories and Health and Safety at Work. Logical in approach and written in clear and easy to follow language, Tripping and Slipping Cases: A Practitioner's Guide provides complete guidance on this common, yet complicated, type of litigation, and is sure to save valuable research time. * Up to date - includes new precedents and specimen pleadings for areas of practice that have developed since the last edition * Practical - solutions offered to the problems most frequently encountered * Comprehensive - provides guidance for both defendants and claimants * Detailed - covers the law in depth in a clear and easy to follow style

Tripping and Slipping Cases - a Practitioner's Guide (Personal Injury Library)

SWEET MAXWELL

The new edition of this popular working manual offers practitioners expert guidance on how to win and defend tripping and slipping cases. Intended as a one-stop text for readers who do not have time to research all the legal disciplines that can come into play in a trip or slip case, it covers all the relevant areas of law - Local Government, Landlord & Tenant, Occupier's Liability, Highways, Factories and Health & Safety at Work. Written in clear and easy to follow language, Tripping and Slipping Cases: A Practitioner's Guide provides complete guidance on this common, yet complicated, type of litigation, and is sure to save valuable research time. * Brings together the diverse range of specialist information required for this kind of case * Covers the law in clear, straightforward style * Suggests practical solutions to common problems * Provides guidance for both defendants and claimants * Includes specimen questionnaires, letters and pleadings

Tripping and Slipping Cases

Rules & Procedures

The key focus of this edited U.K. text is on the legal and professional conflicts and issues that can arise from regulating health care quality. Doctors and nurses all increasingly face a number of dilemmas with regulating health quality issues such as increasing levels of complaints and litigation, scarcity of resources, under-staffing, professional discipline, clinical governance, clinical risk management, etc. This U.K. book spells out and discusses these issues, taking an academic approach, though this will be tempered with a practical focus on issues.Discusses ethical approaches to regulating health care qualityExamines health care rights in the UKLooks at complaints procedures in the new NHSPresents alternatives to the present clinical negligence systemCompares health care regulation in the US and UK

Regulating Healthcare Quality: Legal and Professional Issues

Medical Books

John Tingle

Kay Wheat

Administration & Medicine Economics

Butterworth-Heinemann

Excerpt from First Steps for Little Feet in Gospel PathsGod lives up in heaven. We cannot see him, but he looks down and sees us. He sees us all the time, not only in the day, but in the night too.In the night it is dark. Then we lie down on our beds and go to sleep. The sun goes away in the night, and we see the moon and the stars shining up in the sky. But in the morning, when the sun comes again, we cannot see the moon and the stars any more.God made the sun and the moon and the stars, and he put them up in the sky, where we can see them.Now I am going to ask you some questions to see if you remember what I have read to you.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First Steps for Little Feet in Gospel Paths (Classic Reprint)

Children's Books

Forgotten Books

Being a Beast

Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift. He lived alongside badgers for weeks, eating earthworms and learning to sense the landscape by smell rather than sight. He tried to catch fish in his teeth while swimming like an otter, rooted through London garbage cans as an urban fox, was hunted by bloodhounds as a red deer, nearly dying in the snow. And he followed the swifts on their migration route over the Strait of Gibraltar, discovering himself to be strangely connected to the birds.A lyrical, joyful, and completely radical look at the life of animals―human and other―Being a Beast mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir to cross the boundaries separating the species.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Profile Books

Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

Profile Books, Ltd.

In the UK, tripping and slipping cases form a large part of a personal injury lawyer's practice. Not all cases are straight-forward. Many involve complex questions of UK personal injury law, engaging various legal disciplines. This book is a one-stop text covering all the legal disciplines that can come into play in a trip or slip case. It covers all the relevant areas of law - local government, landlord and tenant, occupier's liability, highways, factories, and health and safety at work - and it gives detailed guidance on the applicable procedure, together with precedent material. APIL Guide to Tripping and Slipping Cases takes account of important changes principally to the substantive law, especially in relation to the UK's Highways Act 1980, such as Jones v Rhondda Taff Cynon County Borough Council (on reasonable foreseeability under s 41, HA 1980), DTER v Mott MacDonald (on accumulation of water), and Atkins v Ealing LBC (on statutory defense).

APIL Guide to Tripping and Slipping Cases

Specialties

Jordan Publishing Limited

A little brown sea

Fair Acre Press

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