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  • Romanticism and Colonial Disease

    by Alan Bewell ...
    Series series Medicine and Culture
    Colonial experience was profoundly structured by disease, as expansion brought people into contact with new and deadly maladies. Pathogens were exchanged on a scale far greater than ever before. Native populations were decimated by wave after wave of Old World diseases. In turn, colonists suffered disease and mortality rates much higher than in their home countries. Not only disease, but the idea ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Educating the Imagination

    Northrop Frye, Past, Present, and Future

    by Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, Germaine Warkentin ...
    Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Frye's critical theory sought the continuities linking human creation in all spheres of life, trusting in the idea of a single human community sharing myths, stories, and images that express shared ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Natures in Translation

    Romanticism and Colonial Natural History

    by Alan Bewell ...
    Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures.For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

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  • Autobiography Of Charles Darwin: Edited By His Son Francis Darwin (Mobi Classics)

    by Charles Darwin ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • Stop, Thief!

    The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance

    by Peter Linebaugh ...
    Series series Spectre
    In this majestic tour de force, celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of the forests, the despoilers of rivers, and the removers of mountaintops. Scarcely a society has existed on the face of the earth that has not had commoning at its heart. “Neither the state nor the market,” say the planetary commoners. These essays kindle ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What It Means to Be Human

    Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    In 1872, a woman known only as "An Earnest Englishwoman" published a letter titled "Are Women Animals?" in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Darwin's Sacred Cause

    How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution

    by Adrian Desmond, James Moore ...
    An "arresting" and deeply personal portrait that "confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on" ( The New York Times Book Review).It's difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Descent of Man

    The Concise Edition

    by Charles Darwin, Carl Zimmer ...
    Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work.In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'. He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Animal Welfare and Human Values

    by Rod Preece, Lorna Chamberlain ...
    As the most populous province in Canada, Ontario is a microcosm of the animal welfare issues which beset Western civilization. The authors of this book, chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, find themselves constantly being made aware of the atrocities committed in the Society’s jurisdiction.They have been, in turn, puzzled, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Ant

    by Charlotte Sleigh ...
    Series Book 1 - Animal
    Ants are legion: at present there are 11,006 species of ant known; they live everywhere in the world except the polar icecaps; and the combined weight of the ant population has been estimated to make up half the mass of all insects alive today.When we encounter them outdoors, ants fascinate us; discovered in our kitchen cupboards, they elicit horror and disgust. Charlotte Sleigh’s Ant elucidates ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Evolutionary Writings

    including the Autobiographies

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin' On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Clandestine Marriage

    Botany and Romantic Culture

    by Theresa M. Kelley ...
    Botany in the romantic era played a role in debates about life, nature, and knowledge, as evidenced in this ambitious, beautifully illustrated study.Winner, 2012 British Society for Literature and Science Book PrizeRomanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement characterized by discovery, revolution, and the poetic as well as by the philosophical relationship between people and nature. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD