Search Results: darwin by darwin charles desmond

Cambridge University Press, 2011-06-30. Paperback. Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x0x8. Publisher's dark brown cloth-bound hardback; in nearly new condition; tight and square with bright gilt lettering; complete with original dustjacket; neat and sharp, not showing any tears or chips. Contents fresh and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Tidy book in very presentable condition.

Cambridge University Press, 2002-11-11. Hardcover. Good.

Cambridge University Press. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. HARDCOVER . XXI +, 484 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., maps extensive, index, notes and bibliogr. (Orig cloth, with gilded spine. Pictorial dustjacket. UNUSED thus NEW) Charles Darwin's ideas resonate deeply in Western culture today, and his theory still lies at the heart of modern scientific evolutionary research. As other nineteenth-century figures fade, Darwin's theory of evolution still provokes controversy, spilling over into curriculum battles at state and local school boards in the United States and around the world. There is a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, come to embrace one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? Darwin risked a great deal in publishing his theory of evolution, so something very powerful--a moral fire--must have propelled him. That moral fire, argue authors Desmond and Moore, was a passionate hatred of slavery. They draw on a wealth of fresh… Read More

Cambridge University Press. hardcover. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing