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  • Species Problems and Beyond

    Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice

    Edited by John S. Wilkins, Frank E. Zachos, Igor Ya. Pavlinov ...
    Series series Species and Systematics
    Species Problems and Beyond offers a collection of up-to-date essays discussing from an interdisciplinary perspective the many ramifications of the ‘Species Problem.’ The authors represent experts in the philosophy of biology, in species-level evolutionary investigations, and in biodiversity studies and conservation. Some of the topics addressed concern the context sensitivity of the term ‘species ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Artificial Intelligence Confirms

    The Positive Case for Near Death Experiences

    by John E. Wilkins ...
    What happens when Artificial Intelligence investigates the most profound question of all -What happens when we die? For centuries, Near-Death Experiences (NDE's) have fascinated, inspired, and even perplexed humanity. Are they glimpses into the afterlife? Hallucinations of a dying brain? Wishful thinking? In this groundbreaking book, Al-free from human bias -analyzes the evidence and delivers ... Read more

    $7.77 USD

  • The discovery of a world in the moone

    A discovrse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet

    by John Wilkins ...
    The Discovery of a World in the Moone: A Discourse Tending to Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in That Planet is a groundbreaking work of early scientific speculation and imaginative inquiry, written by John Wilkins and first published in 1638. This influential treatise explores the revolutionary idea that the Moon could be a world much like our own, possibly inhabited ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period

    Traditions, Theories, Transformations, and Trades (1400-1750)

    Edited by Fabrizio Bigotti, John Wilkins ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Surviving the demise of his humoral pathology and anatomy, Galen’s works on simple and compound remedies (the so-called ‘galenicals’) formed the backbone of Western pharmacology up until the Industrial Revolution. Over its long and multicultural tradition—spanning the Roman Empire and Byzantium, through Islamicate societies, India, and China, to the New World and even Japan—Galenic pharmacopoeia ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Species

    The Evolution of the Idea, Second Edition

    by John S. Wilkins ...
    Series series Species and Systematics
    Over time the complex idea of "species" has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea central to the field of biology by tracing its history from antiquity to today. Species is a benchmark exploration and clarification of a concept fundamental to the past, present, and future of the natural sciences. In this edition, a section is added on the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The discovery of a world in the moone : or, A discovrse tending to prove that 'tis probable there may be another habitable world in that planet

    Centuries Before Space Travel, One Visionary Dared to Imagine Life on the Moon

    by John Wilkins ...
    The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins is a visionary masterpiece of early scientific thought, a bold and imaginative work that dared to ask one of humanity’s most fascinating questions: could the Moon itself be a living, habitable world? First published in the 17th century, this extraordinary treatise blends astronomy, philosophy, theology, and speculation into a captivating ... Read more

    $1.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Horror Collection

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë, Marian Halcombe, Walter Hartright, Mrs. Catherick, Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Gaston Leroux, Marjorie Bowen, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, And The Cab, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jerome K. Jerome, Washington Irving, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, John Buchan, Sax Rohmer, H.G. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilhelm Hauff, W. W. Jacobs, Robert E. Howard, Black Hands, Daniel Defoe, Jack London, George MacDonald, Mark Twain, Pliny the Younger, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ellis Parker Butler, Dean Hole, Serjeant Ballantine, Frank R. Stockton, Anatole France ...
    «The Ultimate Horror Collection», by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: Supernatural & Mystery Thrillers: ; Edgar Allan Poe ; The Tell-Tale Heart ; The Fall of the House of Usher ; The Cask of Amontillado. ... Read more

    $0.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Discovery of a World in the Moone. Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet

    by John Wilkins ...
    In "The Discovery of a World in the Moone," John Wilkins embarks on an audacious intellectual adventure, exploring the tantalizing possibility of extraterrestrial life. Written in a period marked by the Scientific Revolution, this work blends a speculative inquiry with early scientific philosophy, employing a rhetoric that is both engaging and instructive. Wilkins combines observation, reason, and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Great Spirits 1000-2000

    The Fifty-two Christians Who Most Influenced Their Millennium

    Edited by Selina O'Grady, John Wilkins ...
    Thumbnail biographies of the most influential Christians of the last thousand years, written by noted contemporary scholars. ... Read more

    $11.36 USD

  • Understanding Species

    by John S. Wilkins ...
    Series series Understanding Life
    Are species worth saving? Can they be resurrected by technology? What is the use of species in biomedicine? These questions all depend on a clear definition of the concept of 'species', yet biologists have long struggled to define this term. In this accessible book, John S. Wilkins provides an introduction to the concept of 'species' in biology, philosophy, ethics, policymaking and conservation. ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Selfhood and the Soul

    Essays on Ancient Thought and Literature in Honour of Christopher Gill

    Edited by Richard Seaford, John Wilkins, Matthew Wright ...
    Selfhood and the Soul is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of self and soul, understood in a broad sense - and, as in the work of the honorand himself, they are distinguished by a diversity of ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Galen and the World of Knowledge

    Edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself ... Read more

    $45.99 USD