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  • After Darwin

    Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel ...
    Series series After Series
    Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Age of Analogy

    Science and Literature between the Darwins

    by Devin Griffiths ...
    How did literature shape nineteenth-century science?Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    A Childs Garden of Verses (Unabridged)

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    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Narrated by James Otey, Devin Griffiths, Jonathan Eaton, Lorraine Tannehill ...

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    1 hour 16 min

    Ever wonder what the world looks like through a child's eyes? Join us on a whimsical journey through Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses." In this delightful collection of poems, we'll sail paper boats on rainy days, swing through the trees with our imaginations, and whisper secrets to the friendly moon. With charming rhymes and playful language, Stevenson's poems capture the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Myths We Live By

    by Mary Midgley ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. – The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Debating Darwin

    by Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse ...
    Two evolutionists debate the intellectual roots of Darwin's theories, drawing connections to German Romanticism, the Scottish Enlightenment, and more.Charles Darwin is an icon of modern science, and his theory of evolution is commonly referenced by scientists and nonscientists alike. Yet there is a surprising amount we don't know about the father of modern evolutionary thinking, his intellectual ... Read more

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  • The Landscape of History

    How Historians Map the Past

    by John Lewis Gaddis ...
    What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

    Edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume:links diverse literatures to scientific disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamicssurveys ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Darwin Loves You

    Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World

    by George Levine ...
    Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Science of Character

    Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism

    by S. Pearl Brilmyer ...
    The Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms.In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the science of the formation of character." Although Mill's proposal failed as scientific practice, S. Pearl Brilmyer maintains that it found ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Victorian Culture

    Series Book 92 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • 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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  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD