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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe

by Alexander Koyre

Time and again, when studying the history of scientific and philosophical thought in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries-- they are, indeed, so closely interrelated and linked together that, separated,...

Sky Gods & Angels

by Wence Horak & Keana Texeira

If the visitors to Earth are really aliens from distant worlds why would they be buzzing about for at least 5,000 years or more? The answer to that is rather 'simple': they are not really aliens, but our ancestors,...

Choiceless Awareness

by Jidda Krishnamurti

The passages in this Study Book have been taken directly from Krishnamurti's talks and books from 1933 through 1967. The compilers began by reading all the passages from this period which contained the phrase...

The Shaping of the News

by Flavia Cavaliere

People seem to be well aware of the great power that the media has in influencing public opinion, that sort of manipulation of the addressee’s emotions which has been referred to as “emotion management”....

I

by Alfred John Dalrymple

If there is an enabler of out existence it is a particulate field... also it is ethereal, in the entirety of it, and the I of it. Is Consciousness that field? It rests in its own fullness as one thing, yet it...

Darwin's Great Idea and Why It Matters

by James Bradley

This volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), deals with society's continuing struggle with biological evolution. James Bradley writes for would-be...

(R)evolution of Man, Pinocchio

by Giovanna Summerfield

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Giovanna Summerfield offers a refreshing respite from science and the history of science. Charles Darwin...

Evolution and Embryology

by Kenneth Halanych

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Kenneth Halanych describes Darwin's debt to the studies of 19th century German embryologists, particularly...

The Evolution of Comparative Psychology

by Jeffrey Katz, Kelly Schmidtke & John Magnotti

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), comparative psychologists Jeffrey Katz and his co-authors acknowledge Charles Darwin as the most important...

Darwin's Legacy in Psychology

by Lewis Barker

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Lewis Barker chronicles Darwin's legacy in psychology. Barker describes the pre-Darwinian philosophical...

Darwin and the Origin of Life

by Anthony Moss

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Anthony Moss contributes a thorough historical account of science's attempt to answer the question...

Human Evolution

by Shawn Jacobsen

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Shawn Jacobson uses the huge corpus of knowledge about human evolution and uniqueness accumulated since...

Sexual Selection

by Debbie Folkerts

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Debbie Folkerts tackles the controversial topic of sexual selection, competition between members of...

Darwin, Wallace, and Malthus

by Gerard Elfstrom

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Gerard Elfstrom describes the influence that the writing of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), British...

Darwin and Social Darwinism

by Guy Beckwith

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Guy Beckwith compares the impact of Darwin's ideas on humankind to that of the Copernican Revolution....

The "Alabama Insert"

by Richard Dawkins

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), public educator, author, and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, with characteristic clarity and...

Darwin and Collections

by Jonathan Armbruster

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), Jon Armbruster writes about the grand age of Natural History (late 1700s to about 1900), how it helped...

Darwin as a Geologist

by David King

In this volume, excerpted from Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy (NewSouth Books, 2013), David King documents Darwin's training in geology and his little-known accomplishments as a geologist....

On the Heavens

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many...

The Ascent of Man

by Henry Drummond

In the Ascent of Man, Henry Drummond gives his take on Evolution. He sees evolution as divinely guided-- a position that made him no friends on either side of the debate.

"'The greatest thing a human soul ever...