Metanexus Conference 2009, July 18-21st

June 30, 2009

If you will be in the Phoenix area next month, you might want to check out the annual Metanexus Conference at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel. The theme this year is Cosmos, Nature, Culture: A Transdisciplinary Conference and the Metanexus site beckons you thusly:

Join us for the 10th international Metanexus Conference when philosophers, biologists, physicists, cosmologists, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, theologians, scholars in religious studies, and other researchers and educators will discuss these and other profound questions of cosmos, nature, and culture in a rapidly evolving and complex world.

Among the many featured speakers and respected scholars are some of our very own Templeton Press authors, such as Nancy K. Morrison, Sally K. Severino, and Holmes Rolston. We’ll be there too, so be sure to drop by the Templeton Press table and say hello. Also be sure to wear plenty of sunscreen and stay hydrated (sorry, but as a former resident of “the valley of the sun” I feel compelled to share this advice with any and all visitors).

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Win a FREE book from Templeton Press, part II

June 25, 2009

Just an update to say that we’ll also accept entries from Barnes & Noble’s site as well.


Win a FREE book from Templeton Press

June 25, 2009

man-free-signWe need your help! Amazon is a wonderful resource, but sometimes our lines of communication get crossed, and our data doesn’t always quite make it to their systems in tact. So we turn to the power of crowdsourcing!

If you have a few moments to spare head on over to Amazon and check out the listings for some of our books. If you see one of our titles listed without a cover image or product description… let us know here in the comments section! In return for helpful information, we will send you a book of your choice from our recently released Spring 2009 titles.

Just think… a mere five minutes of browsing could win you a FREE book!

NOTE: We’ll need to limit this to one book per user.


Keith Ward Interview at EnlightenNext

June 23, 2009

enlightennext wardThere’s a great interview with Keith Ward, author of The Big Questions in Science and Religion, over at the website for EnlightenNext Magazine (formerly What Is Enlightenment?). You can hear a sample for free (or the whole thing with a free trial membership). Of course, if you are interested in the subjects covered in The Big Questions you may just want to subscribe to EnlightenNext — definitely good reading.


Facebook AND/OR Twitter

June 18, 2009

The Press is now on Facebook! Become a fan by logging into your account and searching “Templeton Press.”

We also created a Templeton Press Twitter page, http://twitter.com/TempletonPress. We are new to Twitter, so let us know if you have any “Tweeting” tips!


Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy

June 16, 2009

galileoCan’t make it to New York for the World Science Festival? How about the new Galileo exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia instead? It runs from April through September and it showcases Galileo’s accomplishments, his relationship to the ruling Medici family, his discoveries, and his overall impact on astronomy, physics, and math. It also happens to be supported by our parent organization, the John Templeton Foundation.

If you’re looking for more Galileo, be sure to check out our Fall 2009 new titles, where you’ll find From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder that Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time. This beautiful new book is going to feature writings from Galileo and several other notable scientists on the sense of wonder and awe that inspired them to dedicate their lives to scientific research.


World Science Festival

June 11, 2009

logo_largeWednesday, June 10, kicked off the second annual World Science Fair in New York City. The purpose of the festival is to cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.

The event will feature discussions such as Nothing: The Subtle Science of Emptiness; What It Means to Be Human: The Enigma of Altruism; Time Since Einstein; Yours to Decide: Fate, Free Will, Neither or Both; and more.

Be sure to check out the festival if you are in the area! Click here to learn more about the festival, view events, and purchase tickets.


More on “The Paradox of Thrift” from David Blankenhorn

June 9, 2009

David_BlankenhornDavid Blankenhorn, the principal editor of both Thrift: A Cyclopedia and Franklin’s Thrift, just published another great article on the topic of thrift. This one appears in next week’s edition of The Weekly Standard and deals specifically with “the paradox of thrift.”

He provides a spirited rebuke of the popular theory that thrift is a bad thing during economic downturns and offers the top five reasons why that theory simply isn’t true.

You can find the article, in its entirety at the website of The Weekly Standard. It’s definitely worth a read.


Franklin’s Thrift Now Available!

June 4, 2009

Franklin’s Thrift by David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren is now available!

Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don’t even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially American virtue.

Click here to order your copy!

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An experiment with widgets!

June 2, 2009

We’re happy to be able to share something new with you that we’ve been working on for some time now: our first widget!

The Big Questions In Science and Religion

If you click on this cover image for The Big Questions in Science and Religion, you will enter a new portal where you will be able to preview and browse the book. The really neat part is that this tool is so easily shared. We encourage anyone and everyone to copy and paste this wherever they like. Put it on your blog, attach it to emails, etc. and keep your eye out for more widgets from us in the future.


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