Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (Pocket)
avPatrick Lee, Robert P. George, Patrick Lee
ISBN: 9780521124195 - UTGIVEN: 2009-09Profoundly important ethical and political controversies turn on the question of whether biological life is an essential aspect of a human person, or only an extrinsic instrument. Lee and George argue that human beings are physical, animal organisms - albeit essentially rational and free - and exami[...]
Conjugal Union (Pocket)
avPatrick Lee, Robert P. George, Patrick Lee
ISBN: 9781107670556 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08This book defends the conjugal view of marriage. Patrick Lee and Robert P. George argue that marriage is a distinctive type of community: the union of a man and a woman who have committed to sharing their lives on every level of their beings (bodily, emotionally, and spiritually) in the kind of unio[...]
What is Marriage? (Häftad)
avSherif Girgis, Robert P. George, Ryan T. Anderson
ISBN: 9781594036224 - UTGIVEN: 201202Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. "What Is Marriage?" identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good. [...]
The Clash of Orthodoxies (Pocket)
avRobert P. George
ISBN: 9781882926947 - UTGIVEN: 2002-09In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, embryonic stem-ce[...]
Monte Carlo Statistical Methods (Inbunden)
avGeorge Casella, Christian P. Robert
ISBN: 9780387212395 - UTGIVEN: 2004-07-28Monte Carlo statistical methods, particularly those based on Markov chains, are now an essential component of the standard set of techniques used by statisticians. This new edition has been revised towards a coherent and flowing coverage of these simulation techniques, with incorporation of the most[...]
Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R (Häftad)
avChristian P. Robert, George Casella
ISBN: 9781441915757 - UTGIVEN: 200912Computational techniques based on simulation have now become an essential part of the statistician's toolbox. It is thus crucial to provide statisticians with a practical understanding of those methods, and there is no better way to develop intuition and skills for simulation than to use simulation [...]
