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Автор: Roy Porter
Название: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
ISBN: 0393319806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393319804
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Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking...a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mankind. Porter explores medicine's evolution against the backdrop of the wider religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of the culture in which it develops, covering ground from the diseases of the hunter-gatherers to the more recent threats of AIDS and Ebola, from the clearly defined conviction of the Hippocratic oath to the muddy ethical dilemmas of modern-day medicine. Offering up a treasure trove of historical surprises along the way, this book "has instantly become the standard single-volume work in its field" (The Lancet).

Автор: Porter Stanley E.
Название: John, His Gospel, and Jesus: In Pursuit of the Johannine Voice
ISBN: 0802871704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802871701
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Описание: Captures John's unique perspective and voice in the wider field of Jesus studies

In this volume Stanley Porter tackles a variety of important and often highly contentious topics within the Gospel of John as a means of defining and capturing the distinctive Johannine voice. Subjects discussed include John in relation to competing Gospels, the public proclamation of Jesus in John, the sources of John's Gospel, John's prologue, the "I Am" sayings, the notion of truth, the Passover theme, and the ending of the book.

Each chapter, besides surveying representative research, puts forward new and insightful proposals regarding the topics concerned. Porter does not shy away from matters that have often perplexed Johannine scholars, and he confronts some of the viewpoints that have led to confusion in the field. In exploring John's unique perspective and voice, Porter makes a significant contribution to the wider fields of Jesus studies and New Testament investigation.

Автор: Crisp Thomas M., Porter Steve L.
Название: Christian Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Perils
ISBN: 0802871445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802871442
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Описание: The Christian tradition provides a wealth of insight into perennial human questions about the shape of the good life, human happiness, virtue, justice, wealth and poverty, spiritual growth, and much else besides -- and Christian scholars can do great good by bringing that rich tradition into conversation with the broader culture. But what is the nature and purpose of distinctively Christian scholarship, and what does that imply for the life and calling of the Christian scholar? What is it about Christian scholarship that makes it Christian?
Ten eminent scholars grapple with such questions in this volume. They offer deep and thought-provoking discussions of the habits and commitments of the Christian scholar, the methodology and pedagogy of Christian scholarship, the role of the Holy Spirit in education, Christian approaches to art and literature, and more.
CONTRIBUTORS

• Jonathan A. Anderson
• Dariusz M. Brycko
• Natasha Duquette
• M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall
• George Hunsinger
• Paul K. Moser
• Alvin Plantinga
• Craig J. Slane
• Nicholas Wolterstorff
• Amos Yong

Автор: Porter Lynnette
Название: Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations
ISBN: 0786468408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786468409
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Описание: The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the recent Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr., playing the great detective; an internationally popular BBC television series, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories, including two by Neil Gaiman. Add to this video games, comic books, and fan-created works, plus a potent Internet and social media presence. Holmes' London has even become a prime destination for cinematic tourists. The evidence is clearly laid out in this collection of 14 new essays: Holmes and Watson are more popular than ever. Why we continue to be fascinated with them is the overall topic. The genius detective has been portrayed as hero as well as antihero. Adaptations describe him as tech savvy, scientifically detached, even psychologically aberrant; he has been romantically linked to The Woman and bromantically to Watson. Whether Victorian or modern, he continues to intrigue us. These essays analyze Sherlock Holmes as a cultural icon and explain why he is destined to be a beloved if controversial character for years to come.

Автор: Porter Jean
Название: Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective
ISBN: 0802873251 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802873255
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Описание: "Aquinas," says Jean Porter, "gets justice right." In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it -- and as most people think of it today.

Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas's account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas's views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.

Автор: Porter Stanley E.
Название: The Apostle Paul: His Life, Thought, and Letters
ISBN: 0802841147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802841148
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Описание: "If the Outsider`s eyes are sympathetic, we discover a dimension of our society that we ignore because we are used to it." Lukas Kaelin, a Swiss philosopher, taught at the philosophy department of the Ateneo de Manila University from 2006 to 2008. Interested in the affairs of his host country, he decided to write his observations on the relationship between the family, civil society and the state.

Автор: Pearce, A J
Название: Mrs. Porter Calling
ISBN: 1668007711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781668007716
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Автор: Porter Charlie
Название: What Artists Wear
ISBN: 1324020407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324020400
Издательство: Wiley
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Автор: Douglas Cenzer, Jean Larson, Christopher Porter
Название: Set Theory and Foundations of Mathematics: Volume II: Foundations of Mathematics
ISBN: 9811243840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811243844
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This book provides an introduction to mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. It will help prepare students for advanced study in set theory and mathematical logic as well as other areas of mathematics, such as analysis, topology, and algebra. The presentation of finite state and Turing machines leads to the Halting Problem and Gцdel's Incompleteness Theorem, which have broad academic interest, particularly in computer science and philosophy.

Автор: Richard N Porter
Название: Quantum Field Theory: An Introduction for Chemical Physicists
ISBN: 9811239886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811239885
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This introduction to quantum field theory (QFT) is written by a physical chemist for physical chemists, chemical physicists, and other non-physicists with knowledge of quantum theory but who want to explore ways in which they might use the power of QFT in their investigations. This book starts where many graduate courses in quantum theory that are offered to chemistry students leave off and first develops some of the necessary tools, such as Fock algebra, which is applied to solving the quantum oscillator problem. Then it is used to develop the theory of coherent states, time-dependent perturbation theory, and the treatment of bosons and fermions. With this background, the QFT of a perfect gas is derived and a connection to thermodynamics is demonstrated. Application to imperfect gases provides a new approach to modelling gas-liquid phase transitions. The book concludes with photons and their interaction with molecular ensembles, and brings us to full circle by deriving the blackbody radiation law, which started it all. The power of the QFT methodology and the breadth of its applications should fascinate the reader as it has the author.

Автор: Fox Porter
Название: The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
ISBN: 0316460923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316460927
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Описание: One man's "curiously thrilling joyride" of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).

As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.

In this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere's snow line to track the scope of this drastic change, and how it will literally change everything--from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and a half dozen climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world.

This original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys--each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox's own narrative of growing up on a remote island in Northern Maine.

Timely, atmospheric, and expertly investigated, The Last Winter will showcase a shocking and unexpected casualty of climate change--that may well set off its own unstoppable warming cycle.

Автор: Porter Stanley E., Reed Jeffrey T., O`Donnell Matthew Brook
Название: Fundamentals of New Testament Greek
ISBN: 0802878288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802878281
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Описание: AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWFrom the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.