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The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.86Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work. This Penguin Classics edition is edited... -
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian J. Desmond 9780393311501
RRP: €44.63Booksplease Price: €39.89Hailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors... -
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.70This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life,... -
Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler 9780199217601
RRP: €11.29Booksplease Price: €9.97Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most... -
Evolution and the Victorians: Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain by Jonathan Conlin 9781441130907
Booksplease Price: €41.02Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the... -
The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859 by Dov Ospovat 9780521469401
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €61.12Dov Ospovat's book, originally published in 1981, has become generally accepted as one of the most influential books about Darwin published in recent years. Ospovat examines the period of 1838-1859... -
Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England by Piers J. Hale
Booksplease Price: €46.61Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on... -
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor 9781324096726
Booksplease Price: €17.48When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate... -
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion Michael Taylor 9781324093923
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €30.62When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country's southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate... -
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion Michael Taylor 9781529931341
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject'...