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7 Men Who Rule the World from the Graveby David BreeseISBN 1879366630 (1-879366-63-0)
Softcover, Hearthstone Pub
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Architects of the Culture of Deathby Donald Demarco, Benjamin D. WikerISBN 1586170163 (1-58617-016-3)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Architects of the Culture of Death'Book summary:The "Culture of Death" has become a popular phrase, and is much bandied about in academic circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains vague and remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death high definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed its roots by introducing its "architects." In a scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation of the mindsets of twenty-three influential thinkers, such as Ayn Rand, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer, they make clear the aberrant thought and malevolent intentions that have shaped the Culture of Death.
Still, this is not a book without hope. If the Culture of Death rests on a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God, hope for the "Culture of Life" rests on an understanding and restoration of the human being as a person, and the rediscovery of a benevolent God. The "Personalism" of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects, serving as a hopeful antidote. [via]
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Asperger's and Self-Esteem: Insight and Hope Through Famous Role Modelsby Norm Ledgin, Marsha M. Ledgin, Temple GrandinISBN 1885477856 (1-885477-85-6)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asperger's and Self-Esteem: Insight and Hope Through Famous Role Models'Book summary:The author of Diagnosing Jefferson introduces twelve more high-achieving role models who have made significant contributions to our world. Roles models include:- Einstein
- Mozart
- Darwin
- Jefferson
- Welles
- Levent
- Robeson
- Curie
- Mendel
- Mozart
- Bartok
- Sagan
- Gould
- Hartford
All exhibited traits common to people with Asperger's Syndrome. Today's young people and adults with AS can also make a difference if they are given support, opportunities, and the freedom to explore their abilities. Many accomplished people have been loners, self-taught, obsessed by an idea, and known for their lack of social skills. How many of them would be diagnosed with Asperger's today? Norm Ledgin makes convincing arguments for an Asperger's role in each of their extraordinary lives.Helpful chapters include:- A Challenge for Parents, Teachers, and Health-Care Professionals
- The Lonely Perspective of the Aspergers Child
- Dealing with Fixations that Drive Us Nuts
- A Ride in the Time Machine of Logic
- Finding and Offering Relevant Role Models
- Surprising and Strange Parallels
- A New Look at the Concept of Genius
- Our DiscomfortsTheir Rights
- Choosing to be Gentle on Their Minds
- Parents as Role Models
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Francis DarwinISBN 1573928348 (1-57392-834-8)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Charles Darwin'Book summary:This gentle self-portrait provides a unique insight into the beliefs and principles of the moral man whose theories on evolution shook the foundations of traditional religion and whose legacy courts both controversy and the accolade of being part of scientific orthodoxy in equal measure to this day. [via]
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Timeby Jonathan WeinerISBN 067973337X (0-679-73337-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time'Book summary:On the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin gave his first hint at his theory of natural selection, writing about the finches he studied there. In Darwin's time there was no proof of this theoretical mechanism for evolution. Indeed it would have been thought absurd to imagine observing it actually happen; the process was thought to take geological time spans. Weiner, an outstanding science journalist, details research done in the last 20 years that proves otherwise. Biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have documented the evolution of Darwin's Galapagos finches, demonstrating that it is neither rare nor slow, but can be watched by the hour. Weiner's superb account reads like a thriller and won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. [via]
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Charles Darwinby Jonathan Miller, Borin Van LoonISBN 0906495962 (0-906495-96-2)
Softcover, Writers and Readers
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Charles Darwin: Voyagingby E. J. BrowneISBN 0691026068 (0-691-02606-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging A Biography'Book summary:In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his big book on species still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over questions it raised, tryingit seemed endlesslyto bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. Publication appeared to be as far away as ever, delayed by his inherent cautiousness and wish to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was correct.
It is at this point that the concluding volume of Janet Brownes biography opens. The much-praised first volume, Voyaging, carried Darwins story through his youth and scientific apprenticeship, the adventurous Beagle voyage, his marriage and the birth of his children, the genesis and development of his ideas. Now, beginning with the extraordinary events that finally forced the Origin of Species into print, we come to the years of fame and controversy.
For Charles Darwin, the intellectual upheaval touched off by his book had deep personal as well as public consequences. Always an intensely private man, he suddenly found himself and his ideas being discussedand often attackedin circles far beyond those of his familiar scientific community. Demonized by some, defended by others (including such brilliant supporters as Thomas Henry Huxley and Joseph Hooker), he soon emerged as one of the leading thinkers of the Victorian era, a man whose theories played a major role in shaping the modern world. Yet, in spite of the enormous new pressures, he clung firmly, sometimes painfully, to the quiet things that had always meant the most to himhis family, his research, his network of correspondents, his peaceful life at Down House.
In her account of this second half of Darwins life, Janet Browne does dramatic justice to all aspects of the Darwinian revolution, from a fascinating examination of the Victorian publishing scene to a survey of the often furious debates between scientists and churchmen over evolutionary theory. At the same time, she presents a wonderfully sympathetic and authoritative picture of Darwin himself right through the heart of the Darwinian revolution, busily sending and receiving letters, pursuing research on subjects that fascinated him (climbing plants, earthworms, pigeonsand, of course, the nature of evolution), writing books, and contending with his mysterious, intractable ill health. Thanks to Brownes unparalleled command of the scientific and scholarly sources, we ultimately see Darwin more clearly than we ever have before, a man confirmed in greatness but endearingly human.
Reviewing Voyaging, Geoffrey Moorhouse observed that if Brownes second volume is as comprehensively lucid as her first, there will be no need for anyone to write another word on Darwin. The Power of Place triumphantly justifies that praise. [via] -
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diaryby Richard Darwin KeynesISBN 0521003172 (0-521-00317-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Round the Worldby Charles DarwinISBN 1579124925 (1-57912-492-5)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Darwin: A Life in Scienceby Michael James Denham White, John GribbinISBN 0452275520 (0-452-27552-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Darwin: A Life in Scienceby Michael White, John R. GribbinISBN 0525940022 (0-525-94002-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligenceby George DysonISBN 0738200301 (0-7382-0030-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Darwin and Darwinism: Revolutionary Insights Concerning Man, Nature, Religion, and Societyby Harold Y. VanderpoolISBN 0669854077 (0-669-85407-7)
Hardcover, Heath
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin and Darwinism: Revolutionary Insights Concerning Man, Nature, Religion, and Society'Book summary:Contents: Genesis 1:1-2:9, 2:15-25: The Biblical story of creation; J.J.S. Perowne: The character of religion; James D. Dana: The character of science; William Paley: Proof of God from the world of biology; William Cowper: Hymns to the God of nature; William Wordsworth: Nature as moral guide and divine presence; Psalms 8:1, 3-9; Romans 1:18-20, 28-32: Mankind's proximity to the angels; William Kirby: The noblest of species; Charles Darwin: A new, revolutionary world view; Samuel Wilberforce and Adam Sedgwick: Traditional religion and science oppose evolution; T.H. Huxley: Orthodoxy scotched, if not slain; Leslie Stephen: Spreading agnosticism; Asa Gray: The compatibility of evolution and religion; Baden Powell: The validation of religion apart from rational proof; S.R. Driver: A new understanding of the Bible; Thomas Hardy and Alfred Lord Tennyson: The new faces of nature; Charles Darwin: The natural evolution of man and morality; Alfred R. Wallace: The inadequacies of Darwinian evolution; John Fiske: The ascent of man; T. H. Huxley: Secular humanism; Thomas Hardy and Algernon C. Swinburne: Mankind's post-Darwinian status: loneliness or liberation?; Herbert Spencer: Society conditioned by evolution; T. H. Huxley: Society modified according to human standards; Suggestions for additional reading [via]
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Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas, With 21 Activitiesby Kristan LawsonISBN 1556525028 (1-55652-502-8)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Darwin and the Enchanted Islesby Irwin Shapiro, Christopher J. SpollenISBN 0698306791 (0-698-30679-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Darwin Conspiracyby John DarntonISBN 1400034833 (1-4000-3483-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Darwin Conspiracy'Book summary:In this riveting new novel, best-selling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darntons richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwins own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzies as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulicmer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discoverLizzies diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwins autobiographyis a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
With The Darwin Conspiracy, John Darnton again delivers a stunning tapestry of history and imagination, a galvanizing novel. [via] -
Darwin for Beginnersby Jonathan Miller, Borin Van LoonISBN 0375714588 (0-375-71458-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin for Beginners'Book summary:The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining."
-- Newsday
aking us through the upheavals in biological thought which made The Origins of Species possible, Jonathan Miller introduces us to that odd revolutionary, Charles Darwin -- a remarkably timid man who spent most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid riddled with doubts, fearing the controversy his theories might unleash; yet also the man who finally undermined belief in God's creation. Along the way we meet a fascinating cast of characters: Darwin's scientific predecessors, his contemporaries (including Alfred Russell Wallace, whose anticipation of natural selection forced Darwin to publish), his opponents, and his successors whose work in modern genetics provided necessary modifications to Darwin's own work.
Splendidly illustrated, this clever, witty, highly informative book is the perfect introduction to Darwin's life and thought. [via]More editions of Darwin for Beginners:
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Darwin on Trialby Phillip JohnsonISBN 0830813241 (0-8308-1324-1)
Softcover, Intervarsity Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin on Trial'Book summary:Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson looks at the scientific evidence for and against Darwinistic evolution. 5 cassettes. [via]
El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 9871150121 (987-1150-12-1)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books Of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0393061345 (0-393-06134-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books Of Charles Darwin'Book summary:Hailed as "superior" by Nature, this landmark volume is available in a collectible, boxed edition.
Never before have the four great works of Charles DarwinVoyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's death, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson has written an introductory essay for the occasion, while providing new, insightful introductions to each of the four volumes and an afterword that examines the fate of evolutionary theory in an era of religious resistance. In addition, Wilson has crafted a creative new index to accompany these four texts, which links the nineteenth-century, Darwinian evolutionary concepts to contemporary biological thought. Beautifully slipcased, and including restored versions of the original illustrations, From So Simple a Beginning turns our attention to the astounding power of the natural creative process and the magnificence of its products. 101 illustrations [via]More editions of From So Simple A Beginning: The Four Great Books Of Charles Darwin:
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Gurps Who's Who 1: 52 Of History's Most Intriguing Charactersby Phil MastersISBN 1556343671 (1-55634-367-1)
Softcover, Psi
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for Godby Michael ShermerISBN 0805074791 (0-8050-7479-1)
Softcover, Owl Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God'Book summary:One hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. "In fact ... the opposite is has occurred," Shermer writes in his introduction. "Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche proclaimed, but he has never been more alive."
Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable discussion about the nature of faith. "People believe in God because the evidence of their senses tell them so," claims Shermer, who is the publisher of Skeptics magazine. Having been a believer and a student of the history of science, Shermer (now an agnostic) is more interested in knowing why and how people believe in God rather than trying to prove who's right or wrong. As a result, this book is not only even-handed and thorough, it is also destined to become a timeless contribution to spirituality as well as science. --Gail Hudson [via]
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How We Believe : The Search for God in an Age of Scienceby Michael ShermerISBN 071673561X (0-7167-3561-X)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Why do so many believe in the existence of something so inexplicable? That's exactly what Shermer answers in this comprehensive, intelligent, and highly readable discussion about the nature of faith. "People believe in God because the evidence of their senses tell them so," claims Shermer, who is the publisher of Skeptics magazine. Having been a believer and a student of the history of science, Shermer (now an agnostic) is more interested in knowing why and how people believe in God rather than trying to prove who's right or wrong. As a result, this book is not only even-handed and thorough, it is also destined to become a timeless contribution to spirituality as well as science. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Illustrated Origin of Speciesby Richard E. Leakey, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0571114776 (0-571-11477-6)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Origin of Species'Book summary:Tan hardback with gilt titles + wrapper Pub:-Book Club Associates-1979- presents 240 pages good clean tight copy. [via]
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The Illustrated Origin of Speciesby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0809013975 (0-8090-1397-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology: Of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, under the Command of Capt Fitz Roy, R.N.by Charles DarwinISBN 040408401X (0-404-08401-X)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Mr. Darwin's Shooterby Roger McDonaldISBN 087113733X (0-87113-733-X)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Darwin's Shooter'Book summary:In Mr. Darwin's Shooter, Roger McDonald explores the evolution not just of flora and fauna but of friendship and belief. At 12 young Syms Covington escapes his father's slaughterhouse and England for life at sea. Already six feet tall and bursting with innocence, ambition, and faith, he dreams of glory. But three years later, in 1831, Covington is still only an odd-job boy and ship's fiddler on a barque named after a "beagle-hound." This boat, though, will prove his career salvation, for its cosseted passenger is Charles Darwin. The young naturalist soon marks the sailor out as an adequate aide, a "willing accomplice" to what the grown Covington will later consider "a great murder." By murder he means less the massive plundering of birds and beasts ("stopping the hearts of small life") than the undermining of Biblical truth. If species do in fact evolve, Covington wonders, what proof can there be of God's handiwork?
Syms Covington really was Darwin's shooter from 1832 to 1839, and even after he emigrated to Australia, the men continued their tense relationship--until, that is, a copy of The Origin of Species arrived. Though the boy was never the naturalist's "beau ideal" of a collector, still, Roger McDonald writes,
It was a marriage of convenience they had, and Darwin was like the fiancée who gives her consent to the match for reasons of suitability but through lack of love rues the intimacy--yet all the time lauding the practicality.
If this talented author occasionally lays on the archaisms too heavily, in Mr. Darwin's Shooter he has nonetheless fashioned a sensuous, provocative adventure. --Molly Winterbotham [via]More editions of Mr. Darwin's Shooter:
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A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1414226047 (1-4142-2604-7)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Beagle'Book summary:After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship "Beagle," a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera: the next morning we saw the sun rise behind the rugged outline of the Grand Canary Island, and suddenly illumine the Peak of Teneriffe, whilst the lower parts were veiled in fleecy clouds. This was the first of many delightful days never to be forgotten. On the 16th of January 1832 we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
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On the Origin of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1404322868 (1-4043-2286-8)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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On the Origin of Speciesby Joseph CarrollISBN 1551113376 (1-55111-337-6)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clichés! Or what are now clichés, but which Darwin was the first to pen. Natural selection, variation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest: it's all in here.
Darwin's friend and "bulldog" T.H. Huxley said upon reading the Origin, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." Alfred Russel Wallace had thought of the same theory of evolution Darwin did, but it was Darwin who gathered the mass of supporting evidence--on domestic animals and plants, on variability, on sexual selection, on dispersal--that swept most scientists before it. It's hardly necessary to mention that the book is still controversial: Darwin's remark in his conclusion that "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" is surely the pinnacle of British understatement. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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On the Origin of Species a Facsimile of the Firstby C. DarwinISBN 0674637526 (0-674-63752-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species a Facsimile of the First'Book summary:It is now fully recognized that the publication of Charles Darwins Origin of Species in 1859 brought about a revolution in mans attitude toward life and his own place in the universe. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most important books ever published, and a knowledge of it should be part of the intellectual equipment of every educated person. The book remains surprisingly modern in its assertions and is also remarkably accessible to the layman, much more so than recent treatises necessarily encumbered with technical language and professional jargon.
This first edition had a freshness and uncompromising directness that were considerably weakened in later editions, and yet nearly all available reprints of the work are based on the greatly modified sixth edition of 1872. In the only other modern reprinting of the first edition, the pagination was changed, so that it is impossible to give page references to significant passages in the original. Clearly this facsimile reprint of the momentous first edition fills a need for scholars and general readers alike.
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On the Origin of Species: Appendix Dawrin's Original Manuscript Pagesby Charles DarwinISBN 1592242855 (1-59224-285-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Origin of Species: Appendix Dawrin's Original Manuscript Pages'Book summary:A facsimile of the 1859 first edition of Charles Darwin's classic work, On the Origin of Species. [via]
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The Originby Irving StoneISBN 0451168100 (0-451-16810-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin'Book summary:The origin: a biographical novel of Charles Darwin by Irving Stone; ed. by Jean Stone Publisher: New York : New American Library, 2002 ISBN: 0451168100 [via]
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Charles Robert Darwin, George LevineISBN 1593080778 (1-59308-077-8)
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The Origin of Species: Library Editionby Gillian Beer, Charles Robert DarwinISBN 0192817833 (0-19-281783-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species: Library Edition'Book summary:In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of original thinking in an open, descriptive style, and Darwin's emphasis on the value of diversity speaks more strongly now than ever. As well as a stimulating introduction and detailed notes, this edition offers a register of the many writers referred to by Darwin in the text. [via]
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The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle: And, the Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1400041279 (1-4000-4127-9)
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Lifeby Charles DarwinISBN 0375751467 (0-375-75146-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life'Book summary:Published amid a firestorm of controversy in 1859, this is a book that changed the world. Reasoned and well-documented in its arguments, it offers coherent views of natural selection, adaptation, the struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and other concepts that form the foundation of evolutionary theory.[via]More editions of The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life:
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggled for Lifeby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 014040001X (0-14-040001-X)
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The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists: A Novelby Gideon DefoeISBN 0375423214 (0-375-42321-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists: A Novel'Book summary:Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition.
Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies and trying to stick enough jellyfish together to make a bouncy castle, the Pirate Captain decides it's high time to spearhead an adventure.
While searching for some major pirate booty, he mistakenly attacks the young Charles Darwin's Beagle and then leads his ragtag crew from the exotic Galapagos Islands to the fog-filled streets of Victorian London. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, radioactive elephants, and the Holy Ghost himself. And that's not even the half of it. [via]More editions of The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists: A Novel:
Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theoryby Niles EldredgeISBN 0471303011 (0-471-30301-1)
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin And the Making of His Theory of Evolutionby David QuammenISBN 039332995X (0-393-32995-X)
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Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent explanation for how evolution occurs. Then, in September 1838, a young Englishman named Charles Darwin hit upon the idea that "natural selection" among competing individuals would lead to wondrous adaptations and species diversity. Twenty-one years passed between that epiphany and publication of On the Origin of Species. The human drama and scientific basis of Darwin's twenty-one-year delay constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin is a book for everyone who has ever wondered about who this man was and what he said. Drawing from Darwin's secret "transmutation" notebooks and his personal letters, David Quammen has sketched a vivid life portrait of the man whose work never ceases to be controversial. [via]More editions of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin And the Making of His Theory of Evolution:
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The Sandwalk Adventuresby Jay HoslerISBN 0967725518 (0-9677255-1-8)
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Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Graveby Dave BreeseISBN 0802484484 (0-8024-8448-4)
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The Voyage of Charles Darwinby Charles Darwin, Christoher RallingISBN 0831792124 (0-8317-9212-4)
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Voyage of the Beagleby Charles Robert DarwinISBN 1573927732 (1-57392-773-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyage of the Beagle'Book summary:Charles Darwin's father at first refused to allow his 22-year-old son to go on this voyage around the world in 1831-1836: he felt it was not a wise career choice. Fortunately, his father relented, and we have Darwin's journal, which may be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written. Revised by the author in 1860, this is an account of his experiences on the Beagle, which led to his formulation of the theory of evolution. He was able to observe coral reefs, fossil-filled rocks, earthquakes, and more, first-hand, and made his own deductions. Original (of course) and entertaining! [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 1853264768 (1-85326-476-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle'Book summary:Inviting in its lavish detail, this is Darwin's fascinating account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the now famous Galapagos Archipelago. One of the most important voyages of the 19th century, this is where Darwin made the observations that led to his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, which emerged two decades later. The Voyage of the Beagle (1840-43) has delighted and enlightened millions because of Darwin's loving and insightful observations of the plants, animals, people, and locations he explored. These journals provide striking examples of the great scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes. They are the precursor to The Descent of Man (1871, 1874), a controversial leap in evolutionary theory from nature to humanity. [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researchesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. BrowneISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches'Book summary:"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the Worldby Charles DarwinISBN 0375756809 (0-375-75680-9)
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The Works of Charles Darwin: The Origin of Speciesby Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett, R.B. Freeman, Pete GautreyISBN 0814718051 (0-8147-1805-1)
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El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1583487778 (1-58348-777-8)
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Duw, Daeareg, a Darwin: Yn Bennaf Ar Dudalennau'r Traethodydd, 1845-1900by Harri WilliamsISBN 0850887518 (0-85088-751-8)
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Charles Darwin: Leben, Werk, Wirkungby Siegfried SchmitzISBN 3612100181 (3-612-10018-1)
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