Since I was a child, I have been and always will be, a Dickens’ groupie
With lots of references to many Dickens novels, the character of Jenny Wren is a mind-blowing example of someone living with a disability.
Dickens is always full of things that interest me; inthis book,it is the handicapped Jenny Wren. In my book, I talk about prejudice against the handicapped and use Jenny as well as President Roosevelt as my examples.
Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.
Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an afterword by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone.
John Harmon made his fortune collecting 'dust'. On his death his estranged son is due…
I am a philosopher and historian of science whose specialty as a philosopher is evolutionary biology, and as a historian Charles Darwin and the revolution he sparked. Kimberly Hamlin’s book on Darwin's effect on late 19th-century feminists was entirely unknown to me and made me feel very humble.
It taught me things I did not know despite thinking of myself as an expert; the scholar in me rejoiced.
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that Eve's sin forever fixed women's subordinate status, embraced Darwinian evolution-especially sexual selection theory as explained in The Descent of Man - as an alternative to the creation story in Genesis. Hamlin chronicles the lives and writings of the women who combined their enthusiasm for evolutionary science with their commitment to women's rights, including Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Eliza…
This is a fascinating story of the history of science that operates at two levels.
First, Radick tells the story of the history of genetics and how the work of the Austrian friar Gregor Mendel, unknown for forty years, in ten years, became the paradigm that still rules today.
Second, Radick gives us what we might call a meta-history, showing the success of Mendelism was less a function of its own virtues and owes much to the sudden death of its chief opponent.
Question: Is the history of science the story of the success of excellent reason and experimentation, or is it more like a mystery story, all a matter of unreasoned chance?
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.
In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity-genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding of how biological inheritance really works to the persistence of an intellectual inheritance that traces back to Mendel's garden.
Disputed Inheritance turns that message on its head. As Gregory Radick shows, Mendelian ideas became foundational…
My book tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should be so hateful to itself. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other?
Why We Hate will be of interest and value to a wide range of readers interested in the role of human nature in current events, as well as to readers interested in philosophy, the life sciences, social sciences (especially anthropology and archaeology), and beyond.
