The Ruling Passion of John Gould
Author: Isabella Tree
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780802114631
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The Ruling Passion of John Gould
Author: Isabella Tree
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780802114631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the life of the nineteenth-century British ornithologist, whose work is said to have eclipsed that of his closest rival, the American John James Audubon
The Birds of Great Britain
Author: John Gould
Publisher: Hansebooks
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783337586942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Birds of Great Britain - Vol. 5 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
The Bird Man
Author: Isabella Tree
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780091895792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGould is widely regarded as the father of ornithology in Australia, and The Birds of Australia (1848) as the greatest of his 18 works. Isabella Tree's lively biography reveals a story of discovery, ambition and betrayal, touching on some of the greatest wonders of the Victorian era, including Gould's crucial role in Darwin's theory.
The Birds of Australia
Author: John Gould
Publisher:
Published: 1848
Total Pages: 1204
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuling Passion
Author: Waller Randy Newell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780847697274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuling Passion is the only book-length study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major Platonic dialogues, the Georgias, the Symposium, and the Republic. It is also the first extended interpretation of eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and the heights of human aspirations for virtue and happiness. Through his detailed commentary and eloquent insights on the three dialogues, Waller Newell demonstrates how, for Plato, tyranny is a misguided longing for erotic satisfaction that can be corrected by the education of eros toward the proper objects if its pleasure: civic virtue and philosophy. In unfolding these reflections through his analysis, Newell also demonstrates a rich and deep grasp of the complexities of the tyrannical personality and countless new insights into the dramatic dimensions of Plato's dialogues. Written in a clear and engaging style, Ruling Passion will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, classicists, historians, and anyone generally intrigued by the ironies, mysteries, and longings of human nature and psychology.
Gloriana
Author: Michael Moorcock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 148148737X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fable satirizing Spenser's 'The Fairie Queen' and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire." -- Goodreads.com.
The Emperor of Nature
Author: Patricia Tyson Stroud
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000-06-12
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780812235463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first biography of the father of descriptive ornithology, the author of American Ornithology or The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson,, an electee to the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and last, Emperor Napoleon's nephew. Stroud, an independent scholar, uses archival sources, including unpublished letters in possession of the Bonaparte family, to tell the story of a man forced by the circumstances of his birth and by the liberality of his views to move from France, to the U.S., to Italy, and back to France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Breathless Zoo
Author: Rachel Poliquin
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0271053720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A cultural and poetic analysis of the art and science of taxidermy, from sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art"--Provided by publisher.
I Have Landed
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 0674061624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.
