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  • Evolution for the People

    Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present

    by Peter J. Bowler ...
    From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying recent historical interest in popular science to evolutionary ideas, he investigates how writers and broadcasters have presented both Darwinism and its discontents. Casting new light on how the theory's ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Progress Unchained

    by Peter J. Bowler ...
    Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons

    Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design

    by Peter J. Bowler ...
    Series Book 21 - New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    From the beginning, Darwin’s dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less well-known but equally long history of thoughtful engagement and compromise on the part of liberal theologians. Peter J. Bowler doesn’t minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • A History of the Future

    by Peter J. Bowler ...
    In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the twentieth century. Utilising science fiction, popular science literature and the novels of the literary elite, Bowler highlights contested responses to the potential for revolutionary social change brought ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Darwin Deleted

    Imagining a World without Darwin

    by Peter J. Bowler ...
    The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks: What if Charles Darwin had not returned from the voyage of the Beagle and thus did not write On the Origin of Species? Would someone else, such as Alfred ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Making Modern Science, Second Edition

    by Peter J. Bowler, Iwan Rhys Morus ...
    In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its influence on modern thought, the authors chronicle the major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Food in Society

    Economy, Culture, Geography

    by Peter Atkins, Ian Bowler ...
    Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies.While hunger and malnutrition remain a reality in many countries, for some food has become an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

    by Malcolm Gladwell ...
    Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have ... Read more

    $11.99 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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  • Great Feuds in Science

    Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever

    by Hal Hellman ...
    The dramatic stories of ten historic feuds: How they altered the course of discovery-and shaped the modern worldHall Hellman tells the lively stories of ten of the most outrageous and intriguing disputes from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Bringing the cataclysmic clash of ideas and personalities to colorful life, Hellman explores both the science and the spirit of the times. Along ... Read more

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  • Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science

    Edited by Ronald L. Numbers, Kostas Kampourakis ...
    A Guardian “Favourite Reads—as Chosen by Scientists” Selection“Tackles some of science’s most enduring misconceptions.”—DiscoverA falling apple inspired Isaac Newton’s insight into the law of gravity—or did it really?Among the many myths debunked in this refreshingly irreverent book are the idea that alchemy was a superstitious pursuit, that Darwin put off publishing his theory of evolution for ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Modern Mind

    An Intellectual History of the 20th Century

    by Peter Watson ...
    "Splendidly readable and hugely informative. . . . Episode after episode from the cultural life of the twentieth century springs to vivid life." — Boston GlobeFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who ... Read more

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