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James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
by Jack Repcheck
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How to Create the Perfect Wife
by Wendy Moore
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsStranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
by Rebecca Stott
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsDarwins Ghosts tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, from Aristotle to Al-Jahiz, an Arab writer in the first century, from Leonardo da Vinci to Denis Diderot in Paris, exploring the origins of species while under the surveillance of the secret police.
by Iain McCalman
Published Nov 2010
Read ReviewsDarwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame.
by Simon Winchester
Published May 2009
Read ReviewsThe Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's , a brilliant Cambridge scientist . Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself greatrelated by one of the world's inimitable storytellers.
by Walter Isaacson
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsBy the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsThe ultimate journey to discover how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.
by Steve Jones
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsDraws on our ever-expanding scientific knowledge and the brilliant logic set out in The Origin to restate evolution's case for the twenty-first century.
by Stephen Jay Gould
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsIn his 9th and penultimate collection of essays Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it.
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