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Do your intentions have no effect on your actions? Is free will an illusion? Some scientists say yes. Alfred Mele shows that these claims are not justified by the data and that there is weighty evidence of the existence of effective conscious intentions or the power of conscious will.

A passionate defense of slang, jargon, argot, and other forms of nonstandard English, this marvelous volume is full of amusing and even astonishing examples of all sorts of slang.

This work illuminates the relationship between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. It makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text.

Shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. This book examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.

The Populist Vision offers an innovative re-evaluation. It argues that the Populists were modern people, rejecting the notion that Populism opposed modernity and progress. Looking at Populism as a national movement, it focuses on farmers but also wage-earners and bohemian urbanites. It examines topics from technology, business, and women's rights, to government, race, and religion.

In this text, David Pleins looks at the history of our attempts to understand Noah's flood, from medieval Jewish and Christian speculation about the details of the ark to contemporary efforts to link the story to scientific findings.

Cryoelectron microscopy of biological molecules is an important area in biophysics and structural biology. CryoEM is likely to take over much of the structural approaches that require X-ray crystallography. This book is useful for workers who employ CryoEM for structural studies in their own research.

Ronald Munson looks into the tense and tangled world of organ transplantation. Using cases as points of departure, Munson shows how transplants are performed, decisions are made, and ethical and social issues arise.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was one of nineteenth century America's most celebrated women. A charismatic orator, author, and actress, she rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades. The first biography of Dickinson in over fifty years, this book reveals the largely forgotten story of a fascinating, controversial public woman.

The author examines the questions surrounding the 1960s and 1970s infestation of coral reef communities around the world by crow-of-thorns starfish. Sapp explores the scientific debates about the cause of the crisis and how it should be handled.

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of St. Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, who was Archbishop of Canterbury for the last 16 years of his life, is unquestionably one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages.

Continually revised and reinvented, the Jewish Mother archetype becomes in Antler's expert hands a unique lens with which to examine vital concerns of American Jews and the culture at large.

The New Testament's history, Trobisch finds, is the history of a book - an all-Greek Christian bible - published as early as the second century AD and intended by its editors to be read as a whole. Trobisch claims that this bible achieved wide circulation and formed the basis of all surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.

Nature's New Deal examines the history of one of Roosevelt's most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps- a turning point in national politics and modern environmentalism. Maher explores the rise of the CCC, and shows how the critique of its campgrounds, hiking trails, and motor roads frames the debate over environmentalism.

This book argues that political philosophy is central to early Stoic philosophy, and is deeply tied to the Stoics' conceptions of reason and wisdom. Broad in scope, it explores the Stoics' idea of the cosmic city, their notion of citizen-gods, as well as their account of the law.