A lively, accessible account of how human technologies—from tracking devices and drones to plastics and large-scale infrastructure—reshape wild animals’ lives, sometimes aiding conservation and sometimes causing new harms; through engaging case studies and clear science writing it highlights unexpected consequences, animal ingenuity, and the need for humility and better-designed solutions.

A wide-ranging collection that examines how modern technologies — from computing and artificial intelligence to biotechnology and virtual reality — intersect with religious belief, practice, and theology; contributors mix historical overview, philosophical reflection, and contemporary case studies to show how technological change reshapes ideas of the sacred, embodiment, community, and moral responsibility, and to prompt dialogue between theologians, ethicists, and technologists about the promises and perils of a technologically mediated spiritual life.

Addiction by Keith Humphreys examines how addiction affects individuals and society, and its intersections with criminal justice, family, social, and medical responses. It explains what addiction is, how it develops, and how it is treated, and covers addictions to illicit and licit substances such as alcohol as well as behaviors like compulsive gambling. Humphreys summarizes evidence on treatment outcomes and the effects of laws and public policy, and he outlines the personal experience of addiction and recovery.

An engaging narrative that traces the birth of modern forensic toxicology in early 20th-century New York City, following pioneering medical examiners who used chemistry and ingenuity to detect poisons, solve high-profile murder cases, and confront legal and social resistance; through vivid case studies and explanations of analytical techniques, it shows how advances in toxicology reshaped public health, criminal investigations, and the courts.

Wolf Wagner offers an introduction to the foundations and design of politics. He explores questions such as which form of society is fairest, how truth relates to politics, the limits of individual freedom and of power, the art of governing, and the difference between symbolic and practical politics. Using clear examples he explains how democratic systems function and outlines concrete ways to participate, arguing that politics should be a continually reviewed basis of coexistence.

Combining existential analysis with clinical insight, the work argues that a hidden, transcendent dimension—the "unconscious God"—shapes human striving for meaning and must be acknowledged in psychotherapy. It defends logotherapy's emphasis on the will to meaning, views many symptoms as arising from an existential vacuum or loss of spiritual orientation, and insists that religious experience often reflects a genuine noetic need rather than pathology. Therapeutic practice, the author maintains, should therefore respect conscience, responsibility, and the search for ultimate values, helping patients discover meaning even amid suffering.