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Mr. Darwin's Shooter

Roger McDonald
Mr Darwin s Shooter Book PDF

Author : Roger McDonald
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194343

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A man of faith faces a personal reckoning after working aboard HMS Beagle in this “gripping” historical novel (The Wall Street Journal). Heading off to sea at the age of thirteen, Syms Covington became Charles Darwin’s manservant for seven years, sailing on the historic voyage of the Beagle. Their relationship was an odd one, but it furnished exactly what Darwin needed in order to complete his groundbreaking work, as Covington shot and collected hundreds of specimens which became fodder for The Origin of Species. Now, as Darwin’s groundbreaking book is about to be published, Covington has retired to Australia in poor health—and in a state of moral crisis over his role in undermining the Christian faith that has supported him during his life. As the novel progresses, he looks back on his upbringing in Bedford, England; his coming of age and wholehearted enjoyment of the sensual pleasures available to young sailors; and his unceremonious dismissal by Darwin once the research was complete. “A captivating seafarer’s tale rich in period detail and insight into relations among men,” Mr. Darwin’s Shooter paints a poignant and unforgettable picture of one man forging, then struggling to maintain his faith in an era when it is constantly under attack—from science, from the daily brutality of life during colonial expansion, and from one’s own cold, inexorable logic (Publishers Weekly). “A spectacular tale of 19th-century exploration and the conflict between science and religion, all based on Charles Darwin’s famous voyage of discovery . . . Brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews

Mister Darwin's Shooter

Roger McDonald
Mister Darwin s Shooter Book PDF

Author : Roger McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1459632125

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From one of Australia's most highly regarded authors comes a timely novel about history, evolution, and authorship. Last century Charles Darwin set out on a voyage in the Beagle that would change forever the way human history was viewed. It was on this voyage that Darwin collected the information that gave birth to his controversial Theory of Evolution. MR DARWIN'S SHOOTER is the story of Syms Covington, Darwin's manservant on the Beagle and afterwards. I was smart as a carrot new - scraped and that was the best of me. I loved my scriptures and I lived my happiness to the full ... This is a novel of scientific discovery, of religious faith, of masters and servants, and of the endless wonder of the natural world. But its greatest triumph is Covington himself, the boy who looked up at the beckoning figure of yellow - haired Christian in the stained glass window in his boyhood church of Bedford, and sought to follow. He leaves Bedford as a lad of 13 and goes to sea with the evangelical sailor John Phipps and becomes one of Phipps' 'lads'. But Phipps' catechising can't repress Covington's passage into manhood, nor prevent him chasing the exotic native maidens of Tierra del Fuego. Covington has a great appetite for life, and refuses to let Phipps dampen it. After a brief return home to Bedfordshire, where things seem much less rosy than in the memories he has travelled with, he returns to the sea again. This time to serve on the Beagle. At first it is Covington's best friend Joey who is chosen to serve the gloomy - looking 'gent' who accompanies the ship; but after Joey's tragic drowning, gradually Covington insinuates his way into Darwin's service. MR DARWIN's SHOOTER re - creates the voyage of the Beagle, and we travel with it along the Patagonian coast, where the bones of mysterious giant creatures are found, and where Covington spends time exploring - and collecting specimens - inland. And we travel on to the Galapagos Islands, with their huge turtles and armadillos and remarkable finches. Years later, in Sydney's Watson's Bay in beset middle age, Covington awaits the arrival of the first copy of Darwin's The Origin of the Species, which contains the scandalous theory of evolution. What part of his life might be in it? What truths may it contain? How can one man absorb the meaning of Creation? Earthy, insightful and beautifully written.

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace

Jay Clayton
Charles Dickens in Cyberspace Book PDF

Author : Jay Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195160512

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Charles Dickens in Cyberspace by Jay Clayton Pdf

Opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates.

Charles Darwin

Tim M. Berra
Charles Darwin Book PDF

Author : Tim M. Berra
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801896309

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Charles Darwin by Tim M. Berra Pdf

A brief biography of English naturalist responsible for the advancement of the science of evolution. Two hundred years after Charles Darwin’s birth (February 12, 1809), this thoroughly illustrated, yet concise biography reveals the great scientist as husband, father, and friend. Tim M. Berra tells the fascinating story of the man and the idea that changed everything. Berra discusses Darwin’s revolutionary scientific work, its impact on modern-day biological science, and the influence of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on Western thought. But Berra digs deeper to reveal Darwin the man by combining anecdotes with carefully selected illustrations and photographs. This small gem of a book includes 20 color plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations, along with an annotated list of Darwin’s publications and a chronology of his life. “Berra meets the essential curiosities a reader new to Darwin will have about a scientist still controversial in some quarters: Berra describes Darwin’s wealthy family background; notes his search for a purpose in life, which led to his embarkation on the survey ship HMS Beagle; chronicles Darwin’s fabled voyage on that ship; steers Darwin into his happy marriage to an heiress to the Wedgwood pottery fortune; and recounts the éclat with which On the Origin of Species burst upon the world in 1859. . . . A finer asset of this volume is its abundance of portraits and illustrations, including a suite of photos taken by Berra of Darwin’s home.” —Booklist

Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History

Richard H. King,Dan Stone
Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History Book PDF

Author : Richard H. King,Dan Stone
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845455897

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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History by Richard H. King,Dan Stone Pdf

Hannah Arendt first argued the continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. This text uses Arendt's insights as a starting point for further investigations into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked.

Charles Darwin's Life With Birds

Clifford B. Frith
Charles Darwin s Life With Birds Book PDF

Author : Clifford B. Frith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190240240

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Charles Darwin's Life With Birds by Clifford B. Frith Pdf

Much of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work as an evolutionary biologist stemmed from his study of birds. It is universally acknowledged that Darwin's observation of bird groups and species like the Galapagos finches, mockingbirds, and rock doves was critical to the development of his theories on natural selection, evolution, and sexual selection. The significant number of diverse birds that Darwin covered in his published works represents a most substantial ornithological contribution. His major books alone contain reference to and consideration of almost 500 bird species, as well as interesting and pertinent discussion of over 100 ornithological topics. "Charles Darwin's Birds" is a comprehensive treatment of Darwin's work as an ornithologist. Clifford Frith discusses every ornithological topic and bird species that Darwin researched, providing a complete historical survey of his published writing on birds. Through this, we learn how Darwin became an increasingly skilled and eventually exceptional ornithologist, and how his relationships grew with contemporary scientists like John Gould. It examines how Darwin was influenced by birds, and how the major themes of his research developed through his study of them. The book also features 4 appendices, which contain brief accounts of every bird species Darwin wrote about, basic ornithological information about each of the species, and a listing of where the species appears in Darwin's work.

Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels

John Glendening
Science and Religion in Neo Victorian Novels Book PDF

Author : John Glendening
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134088348

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Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels by John Glendening Pdf

Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives — has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to Victorians, this subject often appears in neo-Victorian novels including those by such well-known authors as John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, and Mathew Kneale. This book discusses novels in which nineteenth-century science, including geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, interacts with religion through accommodations, conflicts, and crises of faith. In general, these texts abandon conventional religion but retain the ethical connectedness and celebration of life associated with spirituality at its best. Registering the growth of nineteenth-century secularism and drawing on aspects of the romantic tradition and ecological thinking, they honor the natural world without imagining that it exists for humans or functions in reference to human values. In particular, they enact a form of wonderment: the capacity of the mind to make sense of, creatively adapt, and enjoy the world out of which it has evolved — in short, to endow it with meaning. Protagonists who come to experience reality in this expansive way release themselves from self-anxiety and alienation. In this book, Glendening shows how, by intermixing past and present, fact and fiction, neo-Victorian narratives, with a few instructive exceptions, manifest this pattern.

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Evelleen Richards
Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection Book PDF

Author : Evelleen Richards
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226436906

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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection by Evelleen Richards Pdf

Sexual selection, or the struggle for mates, was of considerable strategic importance to Darwin s theory of evolution as he first outlined it in the "Origin of Species," and later, in the "Descent of Man," it took on a much wider role. There, Darwin s exhaustive elaboration of sexual selection throughout the animal kingdom was directed to substantiating his view that human racial and sexual differences, not just physical differences but certain mental and moral differences, had evolved primarily through the action of sexual selection. It was the culmination of a lifetime of intellectual effort and commitment. Yet even though he argued its validity with a great array of critics, sexual selection went into abeyance with Darwin s death, not to be revived until late in the twentieth century, and even today it remains a controversial theory. In unfurling the history of sexual selection, Evelleen Richards brings to vivid life Darwin the man, not the myth, and the social and intellectual roots of his theory building."

Darwin's Psychology

Ben Bradley
Darwin s Psychology Book PDF

Author : Ben Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191017896

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Darwin has long been hailed as forefather to behavioural science, especially nowadays, with the growing popularity of evolutionary psychologies. Yet, until now, his contribution to the field of psychology has been somwhat understated. This is the first book ever to examine the riches of what Darwin himself wrote about psychological matters. It unearths a Darwin new to science, whose first concern is the agency of organisms-from which he derives both his psychology, and his theory of evolution. A deep reading of Darwin's writings on climbing plants and babies, blushing and bower-birds, worms and facial movements, shows that, for Darwin, evolution does not explain everything about human action. Group-life and culture are also keys, whether we discuss the dynamics of conscience or the dramas of desire. Thus his treatment of facial actions sets out from the anatomy and physiology of human facial movements, and shows how these are recognized by others. A discussion of blushing extends his theory to the way reading others' expressions rebounds on ourselves-I care about how I think you read me. This dynamic proves central to how Darwin understands sexual desire, the production of conscience and of social standards through group dynamics, and the role of culture in human agency. Presenting a new Darwin to science, and showing how widely Darwin's understanding of evolution and agency has been misunderstood and misrepresented in the biology and the social sciences, this important new book shows a new way forward for those who want to base psychology on the foundation of evolutionary biology

Darwin's Plots

Gillian Beer
Darwin s Plots Book PDF

Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521783925

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Darwin's Plots by Gillian Beer Pdf

New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context.

Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

Kathleen Renk
Magic Science and Empire in Postcolonial Literature Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Renk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136582318

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Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature by Kathleen Renk Pdf

This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial science, or science used in service to empire, and what Renk calls "imperical science," a distortion of rational science which denies that reality is holistic and claims that nature can and should be conquered. In warning of the dangers of imperical science, these writers restore the connection between magic and science as they examine major shifts in scientific thinking across the centuries. They reflect on the Copernican Revolution and the historic split between magic and science, scrutinize Darwinism, consider the relationship between Victorian science and pseudo-science, analyze twentieth-century Uncertainty theories, reject bio/genetic engineering, call for a new approach to science that reconnects science and art, and ultimately endeavor to bring an end to the imperial age. Overall, these writers forge a new discourse that merges science with the arts and emphasizes a holistic philosophy, a view shared by both Hermetic philosophy and recent scientific theories, such as chaos or complexity theory. Along with recent books that focus on the relationship between contemporary literature and science, this work focuses on contemporary British literature’s critique of science and the ways in which postcolonial literature addresses the relationship between magic, science, and empire.

Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds

Stephen Daniels,Dydia DeLyser,J. Nicholas Entrikin,Doug Richardson
Envisioning Landscapes Making Worlds Book PDF

Author : Stephen Daniels,Dydia DeLyser,J. Nicholas Entrikin,Doug Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136883552

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Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds by Stephen Daniels,Dydia DeLyser,J. Nicholas Entrikin,Doug Richardson Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the intellectual interplay between geography and the humanities in both academic and public circles. The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping and territory have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors in recent publications by humanities scholars and well-known writers. Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds contains over twenty-five contributions from leading scholars who have engaged this vital intellectual project from various perspectives, both inside and outside of the field of geography. The book is divided into four sections representing different modes of examining the depth and complexity of human meaning invested in maps, attached to landscapes, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. The topics covered range widely and include interpretations of space, place, and landscape in literature and the visual arts, philosophical reflections on geographical knowledge, cultural imagination in scientific exploration and travel accounts, and expanded geographical understanding through digital and participatory methodologies. The clashing and blending of cultures caused by globalization and the new technologies that profoundly alter human environmental experience suggest new geographical narratives and representations that are explored here by a multidisciplinary group of authors. This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and interested general readers seeking to understand the new synergies and creative interplay emerging from this broad intellectual engagement with meaning and geographic experience.

Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture

Nadine Boehm-Schnitker,Susanne Gruss
Neo Victorian Literature and Culture Book PDF

Author : Nadine Boehm-Schnitker,Susanne Gruss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134614691

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Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture by Nadine Boehm-Schnitker,Susanne Gruss Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken fascination with the histories, technologies and achievements, as well as the injustices and atrocities, of the nineteenth century. They also reveal that, in many ways, contemporary identities are constructed through a Victorian mirror image fabricated by the desires, imaginings and critical interests of the present. Providing analyses of current negotiations of nineteenth-century texts, discourses and traumas, this volume explores the contemporary commodification and nostalgic recreation of the past. It brings together critical perspectives of experts in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, contemporary literature, and neo-Victorianism, with contributions by leading scholars in the field including Rosario Arias, Cora Kaplan, Elizabeth Ho, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Sally Shuttleworth. Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture interrogates current fashions in neo-Victorianism and their ideological leanings, the resurrection of cultural icons, and the reasons behind our relationship with and immersion in Victorian culture.

Darwin's Sacred Cause

Adrian Desmond,James Moore
Darwin s Sacred Cause Book PDF

Author : Adrian Desmond,James Moore
Publisher : HMH
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547527758

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Darwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond,James Moore Pdf

An “arresting” and deeply personal portrait that “confront[s] the touchy subject of Darwin and race head on” (The New York Times Book Review). It’s difficult to overstate the profound risk Charles Darwin took in publishing his theory of evolution. How and why would a quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, produce one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Drawing on a wealth of manuscripts, family letters, diaries, and even ships’ logs, Adrian Desmond and James Moore have restored the moral missing link to the story of Charles Darwin’s historic achievement. Nineteenth-century apologists for slavery argued that blacks and whites had originated as separate species, with whites created superior. Darwin, however, believed that the races belonged to the same human family. Slavery was therefore a sin, and abolishing it became Darwin’s sacred cause. His theory of evolution gave a common ancestor not only to all races, but to all biological life. This “masterful” book restores the missing moral core of Darwin’s evolutionary universe, providing a completely new account of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It will revolutionize your view of the great naturalist. “An illuminating new book.” —Smithsonian “Compelling . . . Desmond and Moore aptly describe Darwin’s interaction with some of the thorniest social and political issues of the day.” —Wired “This exciting book is sure to create a stir.” —Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, and author of Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Liberal Arts and Sciences

Christopher A. Ulloa Chaves ED.D.
Liberal Arts and Sciences Book PDF

Author : Christopher A. Ulloa Chaves ED.D.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781490737003

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Liberal Arts and Sciences by Christopher A. Ulloa Chaves ED.D. Pdf

“Liberal Arts and Sciences ... should be read by those persons who wish to seek a higher level of critical, compassionate, and creative thinking, It is well-written, insightful, and is a fascinating examination of education...and significant traits such as honesty, creativity, ethical behavior, and wisdom—concepts that are sorely needed in today’s global world.” -US Review of Books Nominated for the American Association of Colleges & University's 2015 Frederic W. Ness Book Award. Nominated for the 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award. “This book will help individuals become more open, courageous, and willing to engage in meaningful and constructive dialogue in their search for truth.” -Miriam Montano, undergraduate student in California This book will, first, move the reader through philosophy’s major conceptions as ideas that initiate and sustain educational and learning processes. The book will then provide an historical account of the key periods, development, and continuing contributions of the liberal arts enterprise. The book also includes three chapters on the application dimensions of the liberal arts model of higher learning, mainly its development of critical, creative, and ethical thinking competencies for effective citizenship and problem solving in the world.