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  • Darwin

    A Biography

    by Janet Browne ...
    The definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volumeBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (Newsday) • “a wonderful and well-rounded portrait” (The Washington Post) • and “magnificent” and “irresistible” (The Sunday Times)Janet Browne’s award-winning, two-volume biography of Charles ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Charles Darwin

    by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, Janet Browne ...
    Series series Very Interesting People
    Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Descent of Man

    by Charles Darwin, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Quotable Darwin

    Edited by Janet Browne ...
    A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words—the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voyage of the Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Most Interesting Problem

    What Darwin’s Descent of Man Got Right and Wrong about Human Evolution

    Edited by Jeremy DeSilva ...
    Leading scholars take stock of Darwin's ideas about human evolution in the light of modern scienceIn 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he attempted to explain human evolution, a topic he called "the highest and most interesting problem for the naturalist." A Most Interesting Problem brings together twelve world-class scholars and science ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Quotable Darwin

    by Charles Darwin ...
    A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words—the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Darwin's Origin of Species

    A Biography

    by Janet Browne ...
    Narrated by Josephine Bailey ...
    Series series Books That Changed the World

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, award-winning biographer Janet Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

    by Charles Darwin ...
    The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is Charles Darwin's third major work of evolutionary theory, following On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871). Initially intended to be a chapter in The Descent of Man, it was published separately in 1872 and concerns the biological aspects of emotional life. In this book, Darwin explores the animal origins of such human ... Read more

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  • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

    by Charles Darwin ...
    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the ideas and questions pursued by Charles Darwin remain fresh and insightful. This is especially true of The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin's second most important work. This ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Churchill’s Bomb

    How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

    by Graham Farmelo ...
    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 20 min

    Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of research into nuclear weapons at the beginning of World War II.As award-winning biographer and science ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Social Conquest of Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook