The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought

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Updated for the anniversary year, Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thinking and to its effects...

This unique anthology brings together a marvelous collection of Darwin's most accessible and significant writings, providing the most fully rounded...

This volume of the definitive edition of Charles Darwin's letters provides texts of more than 600 letters Darwin wrote and received in 1880. Darwin...

Darwin and Women focusses on the correspondence between Darwin and female family members and professional colleagues. Including correspondence betw...

This handbook integrates a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between evolution and the human condition. In addition to evolutionary ps...

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Darwin's 1865 study of the mechanics of climbing plants shows the development of his ideas about adaptation and environment. Inspired by the work o...

This two-volume history offers a comprehensive survey of the major themes, thinkers, and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late...

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It co...

Volume 2 surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. It focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegge...

These essential texts present the range of ideas developed by the men and women who made the Irish Revolution, as well as those who opposed it. Thi...

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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global h...

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunn...

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In this pioneering research, Hassan S. Khalilieh sheds light on the often ignored Islamic law of the sea, and customary practices that were influen...

Religion and violence share a complex and enduring history. Viewing violence and religion from an evolutionary perspective situates both within a b...

Arthur James Balfour was British Prime Minister (1902-5) and Foreign Secretary (1916-19), a conservative and an intellectual. This is the first ana...

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The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conque...

Using evolutionary psychology, Fischer develops a holistic model of personality that includes both what we do (our personality traits) and what mot...

Reducere. Behind the superficial obscurity of what fragments we have of Heraclitus' thought, Professor Kahn claims that it is possible to detect a systematic...

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The fourth edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook introduces the fascinating science of evolutionary psychology, while assuming no...

A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval...

When Green retired and went into seclusion he left his daughter, Deva, with everything that he had ever written--drafts of various manuscripts-- an...

This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mi...