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The Superior Person's Book of Words
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

The Superior Person's Book of Words

This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.

Darwin Deleted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Darwin Deleted

A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his "Origin of Species" and other works.--publisher summary.

Evolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 452

Evolution

This edition of Evolution: The History of an Idea is augmented by the most recent contributions to the history and study of evolutionary theory. It includes an updated bibliography that offers an unparalleled guide to further reading. As in the original edition, Bowler's evenhanded approach not only clarifies the history of his controversial subject but also adds significantly to our understanding of contemporary debates over it. The idea of evolution continued to evolve. - Back cover.

Making Modern Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 539

Making Modern Science

The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In Making Modern Science, a text designed for introductory college courses in the history of science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler and Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought. Opening with an introduction that explains developments in the history of science over the last three decades and the controversies these initiatives have engendered, the book then proceeds in two parts. The first section considers ...

Progress Unchained
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 317

Progress Unchained

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

A History of the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

A History of the Future

A wide-ranging survey of predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology through the twentieth century.

The Mendelian Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The Mendelian Revolution

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-12-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

An introduction to the history of genetics and the rethinking of evolutionism.

Evolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

Evolution

Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution.

Science for All
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Science for All

Recent scholarship has revealed that pioneering Victorian scientists endeavored through voluminous writing to raise public interest in science and its implications. But it has generally been assumed that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twent...

Reconciling Science and Religion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 494

Reconciling Science and Religion

Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the ...