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Making Modern Science, Second Edition by Peter J Bowler
Booksplease Price: £31.67In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world... -
Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence by Peter J. Bowler 9780521566681
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of... -
Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £26.98The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific... -
The Earth Encompassed: A History of the Environmental Sciences by Peter J. Bowler 9780393320800
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £28.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393320800Author Peter J. BowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW... -
Charles Darwin: The Man and his Influence by Peter J. Bowler 9780521562225
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.17Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of... -
The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth by Peter J. Bowler
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Concise and clearly written, "The Non-Darwinian Revolution" sets forth a convincing argument for a reappraisal of Darwin's importance not only for the history of science but for the history of ideas... -
Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future by Peter J. Bowler
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.80Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it... -
Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £32.60The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who began to try to solve evolutionary puzzles in the years... -
The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900 by Peter J. Bowler
Booksplease Price: £25.63In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Bowler examines the completing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which... -
Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain Peter J. Bowler 9780226068633
Booksplease Price: £59.65Recent 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... -
Evolution: The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by Peter J. Bowler 9780520261280
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Since 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... -
Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present Peter J. Bowler 9781009448970
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.86From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying... -
Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas from Darwin to the Present Peter J. Bowler 9781009448994
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.75From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying... -
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov by Peter J. Bowler
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.96In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the... -
Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 by Peter J. Bowler
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60Peter J. Bowler seeks to recover some of this lost history in this work, giving an account of evolutionary morphology and its relationships with paleontology and biogeography. He tracks major... -
Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design by Peter J. Bowler 9780674032200
Booksplease Price: £27.74From the beginning, Darwin's dangerous idea has been a snake in the garden, denounced from pulpits then and now as incompatible with the central tenets of Christian faith. Recovered here is the less... -
A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Isaac Asimov by Peter J. Bowler 9781107148734
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the... -
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw Michael Ruse 9780226731698
Booksplease Price: £28.55Originally published in 1979, The Darwinian Revolution was the first comprehensive and readable synthesis of the history of evolutionary thought. Though the years since have seen an enormous... -
When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg 9780226482163
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.85This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and... -
When Science and Christianity Meet by David C. Lindberg
Booksplease Price: £26.98This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and... -
Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington by Matthew Stanley 9780226770970
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.49Science and religion have long been thought incompatible. But nowhere has this apparent contradiction been more fully resolved than in the figure of A. S. Eddington (1882-1944), a pioneer in... -
Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science by David L. Hull
Booksplease Price: £37.79"Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and... -
Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction by Gary B. Ferngren
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.80Since its publication in 2002, Science and Religion has proven to be a widely admired survey of the complex relationship of Western religious traditions to science from the beginning of the... -
Techno-Fixers: Origins and Implications of Technological Faith by Sean F. Johnston
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40This is the story of a seductive idea. Over the past century, the potential of new technology to solve social dilemmas has captivated modern culture. From apps that encourage physical activity to... -
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Dr. Bruce Lieberman 9780231208109
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries,... -
Darwin in the Twenty-First Century: Nature, Humanity, and God by Phillip R. Sloan 9780268041472
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £29.61This collection of essays originated in conferences held at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Notre Dame to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles... -
Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age by Theodore M. Porter
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in... -
Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould Dr. Bruce Lieberman 9780231224161
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries,... -
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace James T. Costa 9780691233802
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.44A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian...