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"The Justification of Religious Violence explores how justifications for religious violence are developed and how or if they differ from secular justifications of violence. Can liberal societies tolerate potentially violent religious groups? Can those who accept religious justifications for violence be dissuaded from acting violently? The book includes six case studies examining justifications offered for recent instances of violence. The first book specifically devoted to examining the logical structure of justifications of religious violence Seeks to understand how justifications for religious violence are developed and how or if they differ from ordinary secular justifications of violence Examines 3 widely employed premises used in religious justifications of violence -- appeals to a state of 'cosmic war', appeals to the importance of the afterlife, and appeals to 'sacred values'. Considers to what extent liberal democratic societies should tolerate who hold that their religion justifies violent acts. Reflects on the possibility of policy measures to persuade those who believe that violent action is justified by religion, to refrain from acting violently. -- Provided by publisher."

"Praise for the First Edition: "A lucid and compelling deconstruction of current practice in the patenting of human genes, exposing inherent contradictions in the process and offering practical ways to resolve them." --John Sulston, the University of Manchester, Nobel Prize Laureate --"Who owns you is lucidly written and reads as a 101 gene patenting. It is a book suitable for all who wish to understand gene patenting, and obtain a fresh perspective on associated ethical and legal matters". --Ethical Perspectives --"We live in a century when quandaries that seemed more appropriate For science fiction will become real... David Koepsell here raises a set of Fascinating questions that all of us, and policy makers in particular, should ponder as science is slowly redefining what it means to human." --Lawrence Krauss. Arizona State University --"Koepsell's timely book is highly recommended for all reading levels." --Choice, December 2009 --Book Jacket."

"Theologians and philosophers of religion have become increasingly interested in science, and especially in the area of physics. From the fine-tuning of universal constants to quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology, physics is a subject surprisingly widespread in its connection to the area of religion. Bridging the gap between these fields, however, has proven to be problematic; those in religion and the humanities typically interact with the mathematical sciences only at a popular level, and physicists are often dismissive of metaphysics and religion. --The Physics of Theism offers a significant and necessary middle ground between these disciplines, presenting a critical analysis of the ways in which physics is intertwined within matters of religion. Bringing clarity to often complex arguments, Koperski covers a broad range of issues that include divine action, free will, the fine-tuning argument, naturalism, the laws of nature, the relation between science and religion, and the controversy over Intelligent Design. The text is ideal for both students and scholars, providing the appropriate level of explanation of arguments to provide a starting point for research, while at the same time delivering an important contribution to current scholarship. --Book Jacket."

""The Post colonial Studies Dictionary provides students with an essential resource for navigating the field of post colonial theory"--"

""This is Philosophy: An Introduction offers an engagingly written introduction to philosophical concepts that include ethics, the existence of God, free will, personal identity, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. The book conveys the excitement and importance of philosophy while explaining difficult concepts clearly for the average undergraduate. This student-friendly yet knowledgeable guide to the questions, problems, and great thinkers of philosophy includes links throughout to supplemental materials and online primary sources, and features a 175-question test bank and answer key, and 40 PowerPoint lectures"--"

"The Way We Think is concerned with the issue of developing thinking in education. It seeks to move beyond current predominant approaches, which take their cue from a limited conception of both the experience of thinking and die human being who thinks. This approach is referred to throughout the text as 'rationalistic,' designating both its abstracted, disengaged conception of the human being and its representational, intellectualised image of the ways we think --In order to offer a more adequate conception of thinking, the author investigates the philosophical accounts of Ryle, Martin Heidegger, John Austin, and Jacques Derrick. She argues that these thinkers provide accounts that strive to open up the 'possibilities' of human thought, in the sense of revealing both what makes thought happen and what happens when we think. The conclusion explores how thinking education might thereby he reconceived, in ways that are richer than rationalism, and indicates how this alternative conception of thought might he translated into the classroom. The result is a method that provides new possibilities and new avenues for an education that takes its cue from the ways we think, in all their variety. --Book Jacket."

"The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studiesSelects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom ..."

""The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind Works hand-in-hand with the Wiley Blackwell Companion to African American Literature, a landmark collection of essays which presents secondary criticism by eminent scholars on many texts and movements featured in the Anthology This first volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the 1920s The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings"--"

"The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness brings together the latest multi-disciplinary research on mindfulness from a group of international scholars, in a comprehensive 2-volume set Examines the origins and key theories of the two dominant Western approaches to mindfulnessCompares, contrasts, and integrates insights from the social psychological and Eastern-derived perspectivesDiscusses the implications for mindfulness across a range of fields, including consciousness and cognition, education, creativity, leadership and organizational behavior, law, medical practice and therapy, well-bei."