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  • The Huxleys

    An Intimate History of Evolution

    by Alison Bashford ...
    A New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year: Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world th... ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Decoding the Hand

    A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic

    by Alison Bashford ...
    The astonishing history of palmistry and biometrics—from occult physicians to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.Why did Isaac Newton read books on chiromancy, the occult science of hand reading that revealed the secrets of the soul? Why did Charles Darwin claim that the hand gave humans dominion over all other species? Why did psychoanalyst Charlotte Wolff climb into the primate ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Earth Histories

    Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, Adam Bobbette ...
    A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Global Population

    History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth

    by Alison Bashford ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the fertility of women, always involving both "earth" and "life."Global ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Quarantine

    Local and Global Histories

    by Alison Bashford ...
    Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's oceans from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, from Atlantic coasts to the Red Sea. In the process, great new carceral structures materialised, many surviving into the present as magnificent ruins or as 5 star hotels with a dark tourism edge.This book offers new histories and geographies of quarantine ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus

    Rereading the Principle of Population

    by Alison Bashford, Joyce E. Chaplin ...
    An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Contagion

    by Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture.Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Isolation

    Places and Practices of Exclusion

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book examines the coercive and legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries in a wide range of contexts. The political and cultural history of this period raises a number of questions about coercive exclusion. The essays in this collection examine why isolation has been such a persistent strategy in liberal and non-liberal nations, in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    The Huxleys

    An Intimate History of Evolution

    by Alison Bashford ...
    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 48 min

    This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley. Between them, they communicated to the world the great modern story of the theory of evolution by natural selection. In The Huxleys, celebrated historian Alison Bashford writes about these ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    World Before Us, The

    The New Science Behind Our Human Origins

    by Tom Higham ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technologyFifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia, Hobbits (H. floresiensis) on the island of Flores in Indonesia, Denisovans in Siberia and eastern ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook