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Author: Adrian J. Desmond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 910
ISBN-13: 9780393311501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn lively and accessible style, the authors tell how Darwin came to his world-changing conclusions and how he kept his thoughts secret for twenty years. Hailed as the definitive biography, this book explains Darwin's paradox and offers a window on Victorian science, theology, and mores. Contains a wealth of new information and 90 photographs.
Author: Devin Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1009184881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreative 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 also forged striking new possibilities for the interpretation of human societies and their relation to natural environments. This volume gathers an international roster of scholars to ask what Darwin's writing offers future of literary scholarship and critical theory, as well as allied fields like history, art history, philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, the history of race, aesthetics, and ethics. It speaks to anyone interested in the impact of Darwin on the humanities, including literary scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in Darwin's continuing influence.
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0147509777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “riveting” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the most influential and controversial scientists in Western history Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate. With his publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin forever changed our concept of the world. While Johnson praises Darwin’s extraordinary skills as a natural scientist and his monumental achievements, he does not sidestep Darwin’s tragic failures as an anthropologist. Johnson argues that by applying his theory of natural selection to humans, Darwin provided a platform for the burgeoning eugenics movement. Lay readers and academics alike will enjoy this concise and unflinching exploration of Charles Darwin, a genius whose discoveries—even the flawed ones—add significant dimension to our understanding of his mind, the era in which he lived, and his everlasting impact on our world.
Author: D. King-Hele
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-02-12
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 134918098X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKErasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792. In this new book Desmond King-Hele shows in convincing detail how Darwin greatly influenced five major English Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, and many other poets of the time, such as Crabbe and Campbell (but not Byron).
Author: Greg Bear
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2003-03-04
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0345464923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHUGO AWARD FINALIST • “WOW! What a splendid (scary) notion: a human upgrade! What a superb plot! Darwin's Radio is bloody damned good.”—Anne McCaffrey “Virus hunter” Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he’s looking for, the answer proves to be stranger—and far deadlier—than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions of years is waking up. Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has spent her career tracing ancient retroviruses in the human genome. She believes these microscopic fossils can come to life again. But when Dicken’s discovery becomes public, Lang’s theory suddenly turns to chilling fact. As the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve—an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all. Praise for Darwin’s Radio “Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers.”—New York Daily News “Superb . . . Bear's novel is frighteningly believable with a lot of clearly explained hard science, but the personal struggles of the well-realized characters keep everything on a human level.”—Focus “Bear is a writer of passionate vision.”—Locus “Darwin’s Radio scores a high rating on the thrill monitor.”—Birmingham Post (England) “Absorbing and ingenious.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author: Dr. Anna Drogosz
Publisher: Æ Academic Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1683461649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION ranks among the most influential of modern scientific theories. Applying the methodology of COGNITIVE SEMANTICS , this study investigates how metaphors based on domains of JOURNEY, STRUGGLE, TREE and HUMAN AGENCY serve to conceptualize key concepts of Darwin’s theory — such as evolutionary change, natural selection, and relationships among organisms. At the outset the author identifies original metaphors in The Origin of Species, to turn to their realizations in modern discourse on evolution in later chapters. Thus, the study uncovers how metaphors contribute to structuring the theory by expressing it in a coherent and attractive way, and how they provide mental tools for reasoning. As the first comprehensive study of conceptual metaphors that underlie Darwin’s theory and affect the way we talk and think about evolution, it may be of interest not only to linguists and evolutionary biologists but also to anyone interested in the interconnection between thought and language.
Author: Benjamin Wiker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1596981172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Darwin Myth casts aside Darwinism's politically correct veneer and offers a critical, scientific analysis of Darwin's life and his history–changing theory. Without vilifying or deifying Darwin, Wiker reveals the story of the complicated man with a love for family, science, and a passion to eliminate God from public thought.
Author: Deborah Brunton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2004-09-04
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780719067358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible introduction to the social history of medicine in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, set within its political, cultural, intellectual and economic contexts
Author: Eugene G. Windchy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-05-12
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1462815448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth the Nazis and the Communists seized upon survival of the fittest theory in order to justify their wars and genocides. Was the science as bad as the morality? the End of Darwinism reports that the history of Darwinism is full of deception, error, and politics: A series of famous biologists have appeared to support Darwin's explanation for biological change while not actually believing in it. Even Thomas Huxley, "Darwin's bulldog," privately rejected Darwin's principles of gradual transformation and survival of the fittest. But Huxley needed the money he could make writing on a controversial topic, and he had a grudge against the church. Huxley boasted that, against the church, evolution was his "Whitworth gun," an advanced firearm of the time. Textbooks have been infested with phony examples of natural selection. Most popular has been Darwin's explanation for the height of the giraffe. This is an absurd mistake stemming from the English scientist's ignorance of giraffes and their feeding habits. Nevertheless, it has been published for nearly 140 years--so desperate are the Darwinists for evidence. Another textbook falsehood more than a hundred years old is the claim of gills on the human embryo. Few biologists have the nerve to go against the science establishment by criticizing Darwinism in public. However, Lynn Margulis, the world's leading authority on microbial evolution, notes the lack of evidence and calls Darwinism a "religious sect." Ever since Charles Darwin was alive, mathematicians have criticized his theory as nonsensical. In 1966 a big international conference pitted mathematicians against leading evolutionary biologists. In 1980 a conference of 160 biologist decided that Darwinism does not explain major evolutionary events, but in order to thwart the creationists, the biologists organized an amazingly effective cover-up.
Author: Mark Fuson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1462070345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarwin Foster has become a werewolf through unknown means, and with each passing day his bloodlust is growing. The young man, damaged through years of abuse and neglect, is ready to exact his revenge on his home town of New Haven. As his lycanthropic desire consumes him, Darwin begins his slaughter. Through his own carelessness he finds himself under investigation by the local police and he knows they will soon arrest him. In one rash decision, to prevent his incarceration, Darwin begins making more werewolves, starting with the police investigators. Before long Darwin finds himself in the leadership role of an ever expanding pack of hungry werewolves. Feeling superior, Darwin, with the help of his council of wolves, makes a plan to take over the entire town, eliminating anyone seen as unworthy of receiving the gift of lycanthropy. A list of citizens is drawn up and soon the undesirable humans of New Haven find themselves being rounded up and sent to a make shift detention center in the abandoned coal mine called Special Handling. Here they wait for their invitation to dinner. Evolution of the Species has begun! Which side will you be selected for? Look for the exciting sequel to Darwinism with Wolf Asylum to be released in 2014!
