Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies - Rilegato

Darwin, Charles

 
9780199208630: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies
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ISBN 10: 0199208638 ISBN 13: 9780199208630
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

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On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), and the Descent of Man (1871), along with the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by generous selections of responses from Darwin's nineteenth-century readers from across the world. More than anything, they give a keen sense of the controversial nature of Darwin's ideas, and his position within Victorian debates about man's place in nature.

The wide-ranging Introduction by James A. Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, explores the global impact and origins of Darwin's work and the reasons for its unparalleled significance today. To increase its usefulness for readers coming to Darwin for the first time, the selection also includes a map of the Beagle voyage, a detailed chronology of Darwin's life, and a biographical appendix identifying every individual mentioned in the text.

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Informazioni sull?autore

James A. Secord is the author of many books including Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton, 1986) and Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (Chicago, 2000), winner of the 2002 Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and the 2002 award for the best book in history from the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division. He has edited Lyell's Principles of Geology for Penguin.

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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0199208638
ISBN 13 
9780199208630
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
544
Redattore
Secord James A.
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9780199580149: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

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ISBN 10:  0199580146 ISBN 13:  9780199580149
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2010
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