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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c20170.
Language
English
Description
"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.
Author
Language
English
Description
"London, June 1860: When an assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria, and a petty thief is gruesomely murdered moments later--and only a block away--Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field quickly surmises that these crimes are connected to an even more sinister plot. Was Victoria really the assassin's target? Are those closest to the Crown hiding something? And who is the shadowy figure witnesses describe as having lifeless, coal-black eyes?...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The forgotten garden which inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount. It was here, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, that he first examined the reproductive life of flowers, collected birds' eggs, and began the experiments that would lead to his theory of evolution....
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century. In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman demonstrates that there is no better guide to the world's living things than Darwin, as the phenomena that he observed are still being...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After falling overboard during a huge storm in 1835, Simon washes up onto an unexplored island where he makes a discovery that could change the world, in this exciting book based on the real events of Charles Darwin's legendary voyage.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Everybody knows-- or thinks they know-- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist's 2015; on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna. Retracing Darwin's footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson treks across the Andes, cruises waters charted by the Beagle, hunts for fossils...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his first voyage. Though he was a scientist by profession, he was an explorer at heart. While journeying around South America for the first time aboard a ninety-foot-long ship named the Beagle, Charles collected insets, dug up bones, galloped with gauchos, encountered volcanoes and earthquakes, and even ate armadillo for breakfast! The discoveries he made during this adventure would later inspire ideas that changed...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Darwin's revolution in thought using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical, cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress ... but it just isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould. For...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2013.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta obra entrelaza dos historias. Por un lado está la fascinante vida del naturalista Charles Darwin, un genio enfermizo que en su tiempo fue tachado de farsante, blasfemo, ignorante y otros muchos defectos por atreverse a argumentar que toda especie, incluyendo la humana, desciende de otra y forma parte de un proceso llamado evolución. Por otro lado, está la extraña ruta seguida por uno de nuestros contemporáneos, que se considera a sí mismo...
40) Charles Darwin
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Charles Darwin, the scientist who changed the way people see the world. Although he didn't do very well at school, Charles Darwin was passionately curious about wildlife, humans and plants. After a journey to South America, he developed his landmark theory: that all living things are related. Today, he is regarded as one of the most...
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