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Author : Graham Renshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book More Natural History Essays written by Graham Renshaw and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520908031
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book God and Nature written by David C. Lindberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, no comprehensive history of the subject has appeared in the English language. Although many twentieth-century historians have written on the relationship between Christianity and science, and in the process have called into question many of White's conclusions, the image of warfare lingers in the public mind. To provide an up-to-date alternative, based on the best available scholarship and written in nontechnical language, the editors of this volume have assembled an international group of distinguished historians. In eighteen essays prepared especially for this book, these authors cover the period from the early Christian church to the twentieth century, offering fresh appraisals of such encounters as the trial of Galileo, the formulation of the Newtonian worldview, the coming of Darwinism, and the ongoing controversies over "scientific creationism." They explore not only the impact of religion on science, but also the influence of science and religion. This landmark volume promises not only to silence the persistent rumors of war between Christianity and science, but also serve as the point of departure for new explorations of their relationship, Scholars and general readers alike will find it provocative and readable.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061624
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book I Have Landed written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gould’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.
Author : Margaret Renkl
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319875
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Late Migrations written by Margaret Renkl and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781454912149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Natural Histories written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820326364
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays written by Henry David Thoreau and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340821
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
Author : Graham Renshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Final Natural History Essays written by Graham Renshaw and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061632
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Author : Graham RENSHAW
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book More Natural History Essays ... Illustrated written by Graham RENSHAW and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Plot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Oxford-shire written by Robert Plot and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557091307
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Wild Apples written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.
Author : Brian Selznick
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 1407166557
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wonderstruck written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340848
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340414
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-07-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : Graham Renshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331080695
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Final Natural History Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Graham Renshaw and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Final Natural History Essays The present volume completes a series of sixty Essays dealing with typical examples of the class Mammalia. In this work, as in its predecessors, the subject has throughout been viewed from the combined standpoint of the zoologist and the historian; the photographs are selected from a series of over five hundred negatives taken by the author. The opportunity is here taken of thanking the Press for many long and most encouraging notices of previous studies, and the public for their kind reception of former volumes both at home and abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
