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The Japanese air raids on Darwin on 19 February 1942 are well-known to most Australians, although not perhaps to the rest of the world. What happened afterwards, however, remains unknown to many. This publication attempts to illuminate this little-known period of war history, charting the exploits, losses and successes of the RAF's No 1 Fighter Wing and the contribution they made to the allied war effort. The stalwart Spitfire is celebrated in a narrative...
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• Winner, Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Science Fiction, Fall 2023
• Recommended Read by Author Shout in 2023 Reader Ready Awards
When an Interstellar trading vessel, Empyrean, arrives at the distant human colony on New Caledonia, the plan is to engage in peaceable commerce. Instead, the humans find themselves under attack. The planet has been taken over by an independent, self-conscious rogue artificial intelligence, a monster they name:...
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Hard-hitting crime fiction from the author of Tin Men: "Fans of Charlie Huston and Chuck Palahniuk will probably enjoy Darwin's Nightmare" (Sacramento Book Review).
Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was or how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did-working jobs for one very bad man, illegal jobs no one could ever know about.
Wilson was invisible-until the day he crossed the line and risked...
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For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as The Origin of Species. But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862 publication of another volume: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing, or Fertilisation of Orchids. This slim...
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If you have ever looked at a dog waiting to go for a walk and thought there was something age-old and almost human about his sad expression, you're not alone; Charles Darwin did exactly the same.
But Darwin didn't just stop at feeling that there was some connection between humans and dogs. English gentleman naturalist, great pioneer of the theory of evolution and incurable dog-lover, Darwin used his much-loved dogs as evidence in his continuing argument...
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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....
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La formulación de Charles Darwin de la teoría de la evolución, y su tan asumida idea fundamental de la "supervivencia de los más aptos" es, hoy en día, si no algo perfectamente demostrado, sí algo generalmente aceptado como lógico y evidente. En su tiempo, sin embargo, su revolucionaria obra "El origen de las especies" y la noción de que la humanidad es solo un paso más en un proceso de supervivencia y selección en desarrollo fueron escandalosas.
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Eco/logical R/evolution, is the story of mankind, told with words of a great subjective odyssey, the never-ending quest; for objective truths and collective Eudaimonia. The author raises the issues; of political weakness and widespread confusion, about logical analytical errors, which we find in Old Marxist Ideology. A conscious effort is thus made, to expel the mental subjugation of Platonic Idealism, away from the clenches Aristotelian Realism and...
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The fascinating story of Charles Darwin's friend, fellow scientist, and champion.
Sir John Lubbock was an important Darwinist, witness to an extraordinary moment in the history of science and archaeology-the emotive scientific, religious, and philosophical debate which was triggered by the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859.
Darwin's Apprentice looks at Lubbock's critical yet often overlooked role in the Darwinian...
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In this follow-up to his widely acclaimed Pavlov's Trout, internationally recognized psychologist and 50-year fisherman Paul Quinnett, Ph.D., explores the evolutionary foundations of fishing and why so many people have such a strong bond to the sport. Referencing Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species, Quinnett examines how people have evolved, and in some ways "de-evolved", from our fishing and evolutionary partner the black bass. Throughout Darwin's...
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The author of the critically acclaimed Amelia Earhart novel Hidden Latitudes offers a beautifully crafted story about two naturalists, both damaged by ghosts from the past, who find love as they work to save a rare bird species off the coast of Mauritius--and fend off a powerful townsman who is threatened by their presence.
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"Winner of the 2017 British Psychological Society Book Awards, Best Academic Monograph" "Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers" "One of Forbes.com's 10 Best Biology Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist" "Selected for Askblog's Books of the year 2017" Kevin N. Lala is professor of behavioral and evolutionary biology at the University of St Andrews. Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for culture,...
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Charles Darwin's most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which Darwin is more talked about than read, Daniel Duzdevich offers a clear, modern English rendering of Darwin's first edition. Neither an abridgement nor a summary,...
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For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle, was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking: it leaves out a major part of Darwin's legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages. And much of his life was spent experimenting...
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George Levine is Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University. His books include Darwin and the Novelists; Dying to Know: Narrative and Scientific Epistemology in Victorian England; The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley; The Boundaries of Fiction; and a memoir about birdwatching, Lifebirds.
Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered...
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Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of evolutionary theory.
Using ethnological and statistical studies of warfare among tribal societies, Bradley A. Thayer argues that humans wage war for reasons predicted by evolutionary theory?to gain and protect vital resources but also for the physically and emotionally stimulating effects...
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A "provocative, disturbing, important" look at how society's obsession with athletic achievement undermines African Americans (The New York Times). DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to age-old prejudices, recycled "scientific" theories...
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This compilation of The Darwin Awards books 4, 5 and 6 commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it, showing us just how uncommon common sense can be! Meet the absentminded terrorist who opens a mail bomb returned to him for insufficient postage. Marvel at the thief who steals electrical wires before shutting off the current. Gape at the would-be pilot who flies his lawn chair suspended from helium balloons into air-traffic...
20) Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
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At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science-especially Darwinian biology-would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal justice, these experts denied the existence of free...