Sport and Social Identities

Playing and watching sport can teach us a great deal about wider social issues.  This book looks at how identity is constructed and reinforced in sport, exploring notions of race, class, sexuality and nationalism.  With contributions from international experts, this book is key reading for students of sociology and sports studies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Parker, Andrew

Harris, John.

Sociology

Red Globe Press

Playing and watching sport can teach us a great deal about wider social issues. This book looks at how identity is constructed and reinforced in sport, exploring notions of race, class, sexuality and nationalism. With contributions from international experts, this book is key reading for students of sociology and sports studies.

Business & Money

Industries

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Color does not really exist in the world around us: objects reflect the sun's rays in different proportions; our eyes collect those reflected rays and our brains apply color. But why invent color?In Line of Sight, scientist Andrew Parker explains his famous "Light Switch Theory," which holds that the evolution of vision caused the "Cambrian explosion" more than 520 million years ago. He examines the origins of the eye in our earliest animal ancestors and how modern sight developed over the course of millions of years. He then delves into how vision has driven the evolution of specifically human characteristics, from consciousness to artistic expression, language development, and emotion. Finally, Parker considers how we might use evolutionary knowledge of the eye to improve our lives and society, from introducing morale-boosting colors and shapes in hospitals to improving technologies such as the motion-detecting systems crucial for self-driving cars.

Line of Sight: How Vision Shapes Our Minds

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

W.W.Norton&Company

"The single Darwinian bicentenary publication most liable to reconcile religion and science." -Booklist (starred review) Andrew Parker is known within the scientific community as the man who best explained the "big bang" in the diversity of life that occurred over 500 million years ago. Stimulated by that research, he became interested in the biblical account of Genesis. Light is mentioned twice; life first emerged in the sea; and then birds . . . The more he looked, the more he found parallels between Genesis and accepted scientific truths about the evolution of life. In The Genesis Enigma, Parker steps day by day through the week of biblical creation to explain the science that verifies its account. A brilliant work of scholarship, Parker's unprecedented rational argument for the existence of God will fascinate intellectually curious believers and nonbelievers alike.

The Genesis Enigma: Why the First Book of the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Penguin Publishing Group

About 550 million years ago, there was literally an explosion of life forms, as all the major animal groups suddenly and dramatically appeared. Although several books have been written about this surprising event, known as the Cambrian explosion, none has explained why it occurred. Indeed, none was able to. Here, for the first time, Oxford zoologist Andrew Parker reveals his theory of this great flourishing of life. Parker's controversial but increasingly accepted "Light Switch Theory" holds that it was the development of vision in primitive animals that caused the explosion. Drawing on evidence not just from biology, but also from geology, physics, chemistry, history, and art, In the Blink of an Eye is the fascinating account of a young scientist's intellectual journey, and a celebration of the scientific method.

In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of Evolution

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Basic Books

An acclaimed, paradigm-shifting evolutionary biologist shows how the biblical story of Genesis uncannily reflects recent scientific discoveries-and finds room for divine inspiration within. Consider this: Genesis recounts the story of creation, step-by-step: "Let there be light"; "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; "Let the earth bring forth [vegetation]"; "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life"; "God created the whales"; "And God created . . . every winged fowl." For thousands of years, Judeo-Christian belief has accepted this progression as truth. And now, thanks to recent scientific discoveries, the scientific community does, too (though without the mention of "God"). In The Genesis Enigma, respected evolutionary biologist Andrew Parker explains each parallel between Genesis and science in detail-and the closer he looks, the more amazing the parallels become. But the Genesis account has no right to be correct. The author or authors could not have known these things happened in this order, and with the highlights science has come to recognize. Ultimately, Parker argues, it must be divine inspiration that guided the writing of the Bible. This startling conclusion will make The Genesis Enigma a must-read for believers and scientists alike.

The Genesis Enigma: Why the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate

Dutton

Genesis Enigma

Religious Studies

Black Swan.

In this book, Andrew Parker takes the colors of the spectrum as his keys to the natural world. In clear and accessible style, he shows how color plays a vital role in the struggle for life, and that nature’s palette is far more miraculous than had been previously imagined—so miraculous in fact that it fools and misleads eyes all the time, both of animal predators and their prey. With vivid and fascinating examples of how color has affected animals in different environments across the globe, Seven Deadly Colours not only shows the endless wonder of the natural world but also extends our understanding of evolution itself.

Seven Deadly Colours: The Genius of Nature's Palette

Natural History Museum, London

The Cambrian explosion is the "big bang" of evolution—a period of less than five million years during which life on Earth rapidly developed both armaments and defenses. Animals suddenly became both hunters and the hunted, and the number of animal groups with hard body parts mushroomed from three to 38. But why did the explosion happen when it did? Ground-breaking and accessible, this book unravels the evidence demonstrating that this was the period when the eye evolved, leading to an evolutionary scramble for survival.

In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Kick-Started the Big Bang of Evolution

Sound Practice: Book 1 (Sound Practice)

Stamford, Jane

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