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  • America's Darwin

    Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

    by Tina Gianquitto, Lydia Fisher, Paul Ohler, Kimberly Hamlin, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Carol Anelli, Jeff Walker, Nicole Merola, Gregory Eiselein0, Melanie Dawson1, Lilian Carswell2, Karen Lentz Madison3, R.D. Madison4, Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter5, Heike Schaefer6 ...
    While much has been written about the impact of Darwin’s theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin’s theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America’s Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin’s works ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Lorna Doone

    by R. D. Blackmore, Michelle Allen, R. D. Madison ...
    First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is ... Read more

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  • Army Life in a Black Regiment

    and Other Writings

    by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, R. D. Madison ...
    A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slavesThomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied material aid to John Brown before his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War broke out, ... Read more

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  • DARIEL A Romance of Surrey

    by R. D. BLACKMORE ...
    "DARIEL" by way of R. D. Blackmore unfolds as a literary masterpiece, showcasing the writer's adept storytelling and immersive narrative style. R. D. Blackmore, celebrated for his iconic work "Lorna Doone," brings his ambitious abilities to "DARIEL," creating a compelling story that transcends time and captivates readers with its richly unique characters and evocative settings. In this novel, ... Read more

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  • Springhaven

    A Tale of the Great War

    by R. D. Blackmore ...
    Series Book 3 - R. D. Blackmore Collection
    Springhaven which R. D. Blackmore published in 1887. It is set in Sussex during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and revolves around the plots of the villainous Captain Caryl Carne who attempts to aid a French invasion. Springhaven is set in Sussex during the Napoleonic Wars. It is called "a Tale of the Great War," because Nelson and Napoleon are brought conspicuously on the scene, which is laid ... Read more

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  • The Price of Altruism

    George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

    by Oren Harman ...
    "Enthralling." —Frans de Waal, New York Times Book ReviewSurvival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never be.Set against ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)

    My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment, John Brown, An Anti-Slavery Crusade and Henry Ward Beecher

    by Various Artists ...
    Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau.An Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy.Henry Ward Beec... ... Read more

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  • Evolution

    The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    Series Book 17 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Andersonville A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

    by John McElroy ...
    pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The fifth part of a century almost has sped with the flight of time since the outbreak of the Slaveholder's Rebellion against the United States. The young men of to-day were then babes in their cradles, or, if more than that, too young to be appalled by the terror of the times. Those now graduating from our schools of learning to be ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

    Reflections in Natural History

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • An Urchin in the Storm

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus ReviewsRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection ... Read more

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  • Daring and Suffering: a History of the Great Railroad Adventures

    by William Pittinger ...
    First published in 1863, a first-hand account of an episode of the American Civil War. "The expedition, in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime."-- Official Report of Hon. Judge Holt to the Secretary of War. "It was all the deepest laid scheme, and on the ... Read more

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