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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Tassajara (the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States) practitioners come face-to-face with a California wildfire. A gripping narrative as well as an insider's portrait of the Zen path, Fire monks reveals what it means to meet an emergency with presence of mind -- Publisher.