This book offers a rigorous analysis of why commitment matters and the challenges it presents to a range of believers.Peter Forrest treats commitment as a response to lost innocence. He considers the intellectual consequences of this by demonstrating why, for example, we should not believe in angels. He then explores why humans are attached to reason and to humanism, recognising the different commitments made by theist and non-theist humanists. Finally, he analyses religious faith,...

Peter Forrest argues that Essential Catholicism is the one and only religion to which reasonable humanists could commit. Drawing onImmanuel Kant's Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason and Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity, he provides an in-depth philosophical investigation into the synthesis of Catholicism and the Enlightenment.In this nuanced study humanity and divinity are two species of the same genus. Chapters defend the apo...

One evening as he made his way to a local church social in the village hall during the 1950s, a loud crack shook the ground and the night sky turned to an orange glow, lighting the way for him. Shrugging his shoulders, the author made his way through the village, and in the distance he heard an explosion as a jet aircraft hit the ground. It was a common enough occurrence in the village of Ilton; RAF Merryfield was always losing aircraft and on a regular basis. Fifty years ...

Shortlisted for Best Wine Book for the 2018 Wine Communicator of the Year Awards.TheMargaret River region of Australia's south-west is internationally renowned forits award-winning wines. There are nowmore than 200 wineries, predominantly boutique style, in the region, producingmore than 20% of Australia's premium wine market.The Way It Was tells the story of the early days of theregion's wine industry, from the first plantings by Dr Tom Cullity in...

If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical posi...

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading Australasian philosophers was convened at various literary events and festivals across Australi...

A Space Marine AnthologyThe successor Chapters of the Space Marines number in the hundreds, founded to fight for the survival of the Imperium. Across 13 short stories by 10 different authors, discover the history, customs, and stories of 12 different successor Chapters, from famed warriors to unsung heroes.READ IT BECAUSEDiscover successor Chapters new and old within this anthology of short stories by some of Black Library's premier ...

Peter Waring è un adolescente romantico e un po’ cupo, che ama la natura e la poesia e crede in fantasmi che non ha mai visto. Vive con suo padre in un villaggio costiero dell’Irlanda del Nord e ama passare i pomeriggi nella villa della signora Carroll. Quando però gli eleganti nipoti londinesi della signora trascorrono qualche settimana con la zia, Peter sperimenta i terrori e le gioie del primo amore. L’estate finisce, Katherine e Gerald ripartono e anche Peter deve trasferirsi a Belfast...

Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The underlying human-technology relations that shape modern educational settings have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future.This volume applies the analytical tools of postphenomenology to the context of education. In three sections, the contributors present empirical evidence on the use of technology in schools, sh...

Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in Newcastle, County Down, and among his Belfast relatives whom he finds intolerable.'An acute and subtle story of adolescence.... A delicacy and a grave beauty which make their own quiet appeal.' Times'Reid has written one...

Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice.

Surgical Critical Care and Emergency SurgeryIn this newly revised edition of Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Surgery, a distinguished team of emergency surgeons deliver a one-of-a-kind question-and-answer book on the growing specialty of surgical critical care and acute surgery, ideal for those caring for the critically ill and injured surgical patient.This book reviews surgical critical care, emergency surgery, burns and trauma, and includes ...