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  • Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications, 1829–1883

    by John van Wyhe ...
    Charles Darwin's words first appeared in print as a student at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1829, and in almost every subsequent year of his life he published essays, articles, letters to editors, or other brief works. These shorter publications contain a wealth of valuable material. They represent an important part of the Darwin visible to the Victorian public, alongside his ever present sense ... Read more

    $177.99 USD

  • Charles Darwin In Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years

    by John Van Wyhe ...
    Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism

    by John van Wyhe ...
    Series series Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945
    Through a reassessment of phrenology, Phrenology and the Origins of Victorian Scientific Naturalism sheds light on all kinds of works in Victorian Britain and America which have previously been unnoticed or were simply referred to with a vague 'naturalism of the times' explanation. It is often assumed that the scientific naturalism familiar in late nineteenth century writers such as T.H. Huxley ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wanderlust

    The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist

    by John van Wyhe ...
    I found no one to accompany me, and was determined to do; so I trusted to fate, and went alone.In 1797 in Vienna, Ida Pfeiffer was born into a world that should have been too small for her dreams. The daughter of an Austrian merchant, she made clear from an early age that she would not be bound by convention, dressing in boys’ clothing and playing sports. After her tutor introduced her to stories ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Dispelling the Darkness:Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin

    by John van Wyhe ...
    “The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

    by Paul Van Helvert, John Van Wyhe ...
    'This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly Review of BiologyThis is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Alfred Russel Wallace

    Letters from the Malay Archipelago

    Edited by John van Wyhe, Kees Rookmaaker ...
    This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). it was these travels which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolution occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, the letters are ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • On the Origin of Species

    The Science Classic

    by Charles Darwin, Tom Butler-Bowdon ...
    Series series Capstone Classics
    A new, deluxe hardcover edition of one of the most important scientific works ever writtenIn December 1831, Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle, accompanying her crew on a five-year journey that crossed the Atlantic Ocean to survey the coasts of South America. As the expedition’s geologist and naturalist, Darwin collected evidence from the Galapagos Islands and other locations which prompted him ... Read more

    $9.00 USD

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  • The Voyage of the Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    First published in 1839, ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ by Charles Darwin is a riveting firsthand account of the historic voyage that led to the theory of evolution. A brilliant travelogue and a revealing glimpse into the Victorian mindset, it is an indispensable companion volume to ‘On the Origin of Species’. When the HMS Beagle set sail in 1831, the science of biology was not far removed from the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Dealing with Darwin

    Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution

    by David N. Livingstone ...
    Series series Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    How was Darwin’s work discussed and debated among the same religious denomination in different locations?Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Infidel and the Professor

    David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    by Dennis C. Rasmussen ...
    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

    $23.79 USD