Hidden Arguments

In this provocative book, Sylvia Tesh shows how "politics masquerades as science" in the debates over the causes and prevention of disease. Tesh argues that ideas about the causes of disease which dominate policy at any given time or place are rarely determined by scientific criteria alone. In a final chapter, Tesh urges scientists to incorporate egalitarian values into their search for the truth, rather than pretending science can be divorced from that political ideology.

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This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the need for a theory to explain them. The essence of the approach is (a) that almost all aspects of grammatical structure are language specific, and (b) that language universals are to be found in conceptual structure and in the mapping of conceptual structure on to linguistic form. It proposes intimate links between syntactic and semantic structures, and argues that the basic elements of any language are not syntactic but syntactic-semantic 'Gestalts'. Professor Croft puts forward a new approach to syntactic representation and a new model of how language and languages work. He covers a wide range of syntactic phenomena, illustrating these with examples that show the varied grammatical structures of the world's languages. The book will be accessible all linguists at graduate level and beyond.

First Published in 1997. This is a book about the different ways in which crime and criminal behaviour has been explained in modern times. It will be seen that there are different explanations - or theories - which have been proposed at various times during the past 200 years by among others legal philosophers, biologists, psychologists, sociologists and political scientists.

This monograph identifies the essential characteristics of the objects described by current quantum theory and considers their relationship to space-time. In the process, it explicates the senses in which quantum objects may be consistently considered to have parts of which they may be composed or into which they may be decomposed. The book also demonstrates the degree to which reduction is possible in quantum mechanics, showing it to be related to the objective indefiniteness of quantum properties and the strong non-local correlations that can occur between the physical quantities of quantum subsystems. Careful attention is paid to the relationships among such property correlations, physical causation, probability, and symmetry in quantum theory. In this way, the text identifies and clarifies the conceptual grounds underlying the unique nature of many quantum phenomena.

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The revised edition of the bestselling Christian guide to ahappy marriage For more than fifteen years, Scott Stanley's A LastingPromise has offered solutions to common problems—facingconflicts, problem solving, improving communication, and dealingwith core issues—within a Christian framework. Thoroughlyrevised and updated, this new edition is filled with sacredteachings of scripture, the latest research on marriage, and clearexamples from the lives of couples. The book's strategies aredesigned to help couples improve communication, understandcommitment, bring more fun into their relationship, and enhancetheir sex lives. Lead author Scott Stanley is co-director of the Center forMarital and Family Studies at the University of Denver and coauthorof Fighting for Your Marriage, which has sold more than a millioncopies. Offers reflections on how to enhance anyone's marriage over thelong term and avoid divorce Covers recent cultural shifts, such as dealing with the endlesstechnological distraction and issues with socialnetworking New themes include the chemistry of love, the life-longimplications of having bodies, and how to support one anotheremotionally Uses illustrative examples from couples’ lives and richintegration of insights from scripture This important book offers an invaluable resource for allcouples who want to honor and preserve the holy sacrament of theirunion.