Chopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 201.65 CHOChopra, Deepak.
Summary: "... two great thinkers battle over the cosmos, evolution and life, the human brain, and God, probing the fundamental questions that define the human experience"--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 201.65 CHOLake, Osprey Orielle
Summary: "A dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to the brink of social, ecological, and climate collapse. Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the end of a world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2024
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Summary: George Barna identifies, describes, and analyzes seven major "faith tribes" (Captive Christians, Casual Christians, Jews, Mormons, Pantheists, Muslims, and Skeptics) in America--documenting who they are, what they believe, how they vote, and what they are passionate about. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barna 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200.973 BARRaleigh, Bob
Summary: "A groundbreaking new behavioral model that explains what drives us, and why"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 150.19 RALCollins, Francis S.
Contents: From atheism to belief -- The war of the worldviews -- The origins of the universe -- Life on Earth : of microbes and man -- Deciphering God's instruction book : the lessons of the human genome -- Genesis, Galileo, and Darwin -- Option 1 : atheism and agnosticism (when science trumps faith) -- Option 2 : creationism (when faith trumps science) -- Option 3 : intelligent design (when science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 215 COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 215 COLBissinger, H. G.
Summary: The author recounts a father-son road trip during which he gained insight into the worldviews, challenges, and talents of his socially challenged savant son, Zach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BISSINGER, H.G BISDe Botton, Alain.
Summary: Presents a philosophical assessment of the role of news in today's gadget-driven societies, exploring subjects ranging from politics and crime to celebrities and paparazzi while considering how the news shapes everyday worldviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 BOTColson, Charles W.
Summary: "Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that answers life's basic questions and shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How now shall we live? equips Christians to confront false worldviews and live redemptively in contemporary culture."--Publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261 COLMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: An encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. The two men begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing worldviews.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCKissinger, Henry
Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society fundamentally and profoundly. Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore how A.I. could affect our relationship with knowledge, impact our worldviews, and change society and politics as profoundly as the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 006.3 KISCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science KissingerColson, Charles W.
Summary: In How Now Shall We Live?, the 2000 Gold Medallion winner for best book about Christianity and society, Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey Show that the great spiritual battle today is a cosmic struggle between competing worldviews. Through inspiring stories and compelling teaching, they demonstrate how to: 1. Expose the false views and values of modern culture; 2. Live a more fulfilling life the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2006
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Summary: Whether it's underage drinking, homophobia or smokers' rights, no subject is off limits for the hilariously warped gang at Paddy's Pub. The staff of this neighborhood bar takes dysfunction and political incorrectness to wickedly hilarious extremes. Knock one back with Mac, Charlie, Dennis, his sister Dee, and their nihilistic father Frank, as their twisted and self-obsessed worldviews lead to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ITSummary: He was a philosopher, paleontologist, Jesuit priest-and far more than the sum of these disparate labels. Illuminating the life and work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this program examines his origins, his difficulties with Catholic orthodoxy, and his legacy as a major contributor to the "living Earth" theory. Interviewing scientists and religious leaders influenced by Teilhard, the program...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program considers the debt Western civilization owes to paganism, Christianity, and Islam, showing how each religion has influenced the other and how the art of all three continues to exert an effect on the world. Highlighting the lifelike sculptures of ancient Greece that celebrate what it is to be human; the primitive daubs in Roman catacombs, shimmering Byzantine mosaics, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In order for both science and spirituality to coexist in the world, must an individual necessarily place one above the other? Or, if treated as coequals, must the empirical and the intangible always be kept separate, never to intersect? In bringing together proponents of science and spirituality, this program proposes a third course: to encourage the overlapping of these contrasting worldviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Huston Smith has devoted his life to study of the ineffable experience. This program opens windows of understanding into the renowned mystic philosopher's unceasing quest for truth about the ultimate nature of reality as he shares the story of his early decades: growing up in China in a missionary family, preparation for a career in the ministry, the "aha!" moment in college that redirected him...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Davis, Wade.
Summary: "Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 301 DAVPower, Carla
Summary: If the Oceans Were Ink is Carla Power's eye-opening story of how she and her longtime friend Sheikh Mohammad Akram Nadwi found a way to confront ugly stereotypes and persistent misperceptions that were cleaving their communities. Their friendship-between a secular American and a madrasa-trained sheikh-had always seemed unlikely, but now they were frustrated and bewildered by the battles being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015