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Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Darwin and the worms not only centers around the perennially brilliant subject of poo, it teaches children about a key historic figure, the food cycle and deductive scientific thinking. It is also a heartwarming story of the triumph of a zany underdog who won't let bullies get in the way of his love for worms.
Author
Series
Harvard Classics volume ( 28 )
Tantor unabridged classics
The Natural history library volume N16
Origin of Species
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Tantor unabridged classics
The Natural history library volume N16
Origin of Species
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Language
English
Description
Charles Darwin chronicles the five years he spent early in his career aboard the survey ship HMS "Beagle," exploring the Southern Hemisphere, including Brazilian rain forests, the Andes, and the Gal�pagos Islands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An all-new mystery from the bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game!A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.A curious girl who doesn't belong.A mysterious notebook.A missing father.A fire.A stranger.A death.These are some of the things you'll find within The Danger Box, the new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett.Open with care. Blue Balliett is the author of several bestselling, acclaimed mystery...
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin...
“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)
Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin's new treatise: fact or fiction? Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved 'that mystery of mysteries,' introducing...
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (ca. 15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The elite scientists of Sigma Force race to crack the ultimate mystery of mankind in a quest that will save or destroy the human race.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the scientific relevance of an exotic frog discovered by Charles Darwin in 1834, describing how researchers came to the surprising realization that the males of the species care for their developing young.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his forst voyage. Though he was a scientist by profession, he was en explorer at heart. While journeying around around South American for the first time aboard a 90-foot-long ship named the Beagle, Charles collected insects, dug up bones, galloped with gauchos, encountered volcanoes and earthquakes, and even ate armadillo for breakfast! The discoveries he made during this adventure would later inspire ideas that...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A single great idea: the theory of natural selection. With it, Charles Darwin shattered existing notions of the natural world by demonstrating how complexity could arise as a result of a blind and mechanistic sorting process, without an "intelligent designer". Now, join Daniel Dennett as he illuminates the radical nature of Darwin's dangerous idea. Setting his stage, Dennett illustrates why skeptics insist that beyond "gradual change" evolution must...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 50 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Darwin's revolution in thought using evolutionary biology, history of science, and social history as his canvas, Gould paints the fascinating picture of how human biases (philosophical, cultural, and spiritual) have continued to resist Darwin's theory, inverting it into its own philosophical opposite. "If there's one thing we desperately want evolution to be, it's a principle that predicts progress ... but it just isn't so."-- Stephen Jay Gould. For...
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 695 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of Darwin's writing, those of his critics and those of his intellectual descendants, incorporates excerpts from "The Voyage of the Beagle", "On The Tendency of Species to Form Varieties" as well as "Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man."
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
79 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the launch of the HMS Beagle, this beautifully illustrated narrative nonfiction book tells the story of Charles Darwin, and shows how his revolutionary research changed the world forever.
16) Evolution
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 480 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Evolution" offers a groundbreaking and definitive view of the extraordinary impact the evolutionary process has had on our understanding of the world around us. Beginning with Darwin's revolutionary theory, this seven-part series explores all facets of evolution--the changes that spawned the tree of life, the power of sex, how evolution continues to affect us every day, and the perceived conflict between science and religion.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book adaptation of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species, lushly illustrated and told in accessible and engaging easy-to-understand text for young readers."--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 162 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This companion volume to Great Inventors and their Inventions introduces the work of nine men to younger readers, and ranges from the world of Ancient Greece to the 20th century discovery of DNA. Included are the crucial discovery that the earth goes round the sun (Galileo), the principle of gravity (Newton), the evolution of the species (Darwin) and the...
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