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Divine Sensibility
Biblical infallibility is a sine quo non in any evangelical theology. Nevertheless, the interpreter may be unduly influenced by psychological or cultural factors or little exposed to other religious traditions and further discoveries about the universe. These often-unconscious sources of interpretation inevitably impact scriptural exegesis, theological interpretation, and doctrinal definition, engendering internal tensions and aporias in questions such as the relation between divine sovereignty, evil, and unjust suffering, and the validity of other religious traditions. This third and last volume of an evangelical Christian systematic theology, which takes account of psychological wellbeing, cultural diversity, and religious plurality, reassesses and reinterprets core Christian doctrines concerning God and humanity, in dialogue with major classical, medieval, and modern theologians including Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Schleiermacher, and Barth.
Constructed Ecologies
Today, designers are shifting the practice of landscape architecture towards the need for a more complex understanding of ecological science. Constructed Ecologies presents ecology as critical theory for design, and provides major ideas for design that are supported with solid and imaginative science. In the questioning narrative of Constructed Ecologies, the author discards many old and tired theories in landscape architecture. With detailed documentation, she casts off the savannah theory, critiques the search for universals, reveals the needed role of designers in large-scale agriculture, abandons the overlay technique of McHarg, and introduces the ecological and urban health urgency of public night lighting. Margaret Grose presents wide-ranging new approaches and shows the importance of learning from science for design, of going beyond assumptions, of working in multiple rather than single issues, of disrupting linear design thinking, and of dealing with data. This book is written with a clear voice by an ecologist and landscape architect who has led design students into loving ecological science for the support it gives design.
Python Recipes for Earth Sciences
Python is used in a wide range of geoscientific applications, such as in processing images for remote sensing, in generating and processing digital elevation models, and in analyzing time series. This book introduces methods of data analysis in the geosciences using Python that include basic statistics for univariate, bivariate, and multivariate data sets, time series analysis, and signal processing; the analysis of spatial and directional data; and image analysis. The text includes numerous examples that demonstrate how Python can be used on data sets from the earth sciences. Codes are available online through GitHub.
The Andes
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.
Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 Asian Pacific Conference on Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (APEESD 2012), November 12-13, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The First Humans
There are some issues in human paleontology that seem to be timeless. Most deal with the origin and early evolution of our own genus – something about which we should care. Some of these issues pertain to taxonomy and systematics. How many species of Homo were there in the Pliocene and Pleistocene? How do we identify the earliest members the genus Homo? If there is more than one Plio-Pleistocene species, how do they relate to one another, and where and when did they evolve? Other issues relate to questions about body size, proportions and the functional adaptations of the locomotor skeleton. When did the human postcranial “Bauplan” evolve, and for what reasons? What behaviors (and what...
MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
MATLAB is used in a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces basic methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB. The text includes a brief description of each method and numerous examples demonstrating how MATLAB can be used on data sets from earth sciences. All MATLAB recipes can be easily modified in order to analyse the reader's own data sets.
Science
A weekly record of scientific progress.
Social Pluralism and Lithic Economy at Cerro Baúl, Peru
Excavations at the site of Cerro Baúl near Moquegua, Peru have shown that this community was predominantly Wari, but in the later Middle Horizon Epoch B the occupation included a significant contingent of Tumilaca residents. This study examines over 1,979 flaked lithic artefacts from contexts that represent both Wari and Tumilaca residents. The data reveal that economic differentiation was an important factor that determined material use, and economic differentiation also strongly characterized social interaction. Differences in local and exotic material use reflect participation in socially organized procurement networks of varying scale, and economic and mechanical considerations figured strongly in implement usage. Furthermore, the membership of economic social groups crosscut ethnic boundaries. These interpretations contribute to our understanding of the socio-economic dynamics between cultural groups and support the hypothesis that class-organized inter-ethnic interaction was a probable development of the dynamic contact between the Wari and Tiwanaku expansive states during the Middle Horizon.
