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The Earth Encompassed

A History of the Environmental Sciences

By: Peter J. Bowler

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The Earth Encompassed

A History of the Environmental Sciences

By: Peter J. Bowler

An accessible and comprehensive history of discoveries and outlooks that culminated in the modern discipline of environmental studies.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393320804

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9780393320800

Message from the Dead

Counter-terrorism and deceit amid the canals of Venice

By: Peter Minto

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Message from the Dead

Counter-terrorism and deceit amid the canals of Venice

By: Peter Minto

An experienced anti-terrorist British agent in northern Italy has suddenly, and against all instructions, broken out from deep cover. His superiors in London desperately need to know why. The search is on. Two fellow agents, Macbride and Cromarty, are given the task of locating him and finding out the reason for his action. How does the Air Force veteran who is working with his team on surveillance know so much? Can the beautiful Claudia offer any answers? Who are the shadowy characters trying to silence their sources? And what is the coded secret hidden in a cemetery? A tense, page-turning story of deceit and subterfuge set mainly in the sunshine and romance of Venice.ÿ

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158

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Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks

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1861518269

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9781861518262

Stay Lucky

Trapped by an offer he can?t refuse - and a girl he can?t resist

By: Peter Minto

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Trapped by an offer he can?t refuse - and a girl he can?t resist

By: Peter Minto

ÿ Lured to Florence by a false business proposition, retired agent Steve Cromarty is framed for a terrorist attack. Deeply implicated and badly needing a pay cheque, he is unable to refuse involvement in a smuggling scheme. But Cromarty is his own man and he's determined to find out what his ruthless former boss Macbride has in store and where the beautiful Annie's loyalties really lie. Unfortunately, in the murky world he finds himself plunged into, he soon realises that loyalty and trust are things of the past. A page-turning crime thriller set mainly in Italy and France.

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173

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Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks

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1861514565

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9781861514561

Reconciling Science and Religion

The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain

By: Peter J. Bowler

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Reconciling Science and Religion

The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain

By: Peter J. Bowler

Although much has been written about the vigorous debates over science and religion in the Victorian era, little attention has been paid to their continuing importance in early twentieth-century Britain. Reconciling Science and Religion provides a comprehensive survey of the interplay between British science and religion from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Peter J. Bowler argues that unlike the United States, where a strong fundamentalist opposition to evolutionism developed in the 1920s (most famously expressed in the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925), in Britain there was a concerted effort to reconcile science and religion. Intellectually conservative scientists championed the reconciliation and were supported by liberal theologians in the Free Churches and the Church of England, especially the Anglican "Modernists." Popular writers such as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw sought to create a non-Christian religion similar in some respects to the Modernist position. Younger scientists and secularists—including Rationalists such as H. G. Wells and the Marxists—tended to oppose these efforts, as did conservative Christians, who saw the liberal position as a betrayal of the true spirit of their religion. With the increased social tensions of the 1930s, as the churches moved toward a neo-orthodoxy unfriendly to natural theology and biologists adopted the "Modern Synthesis" of genetics and evolutionary theory, the proposed reconciliation fell apart. Because the tensions between science and religion—and efforts at reconciling the two—are still very much with us today, Bowler's book will be important for everyone interested in these issues.

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494

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University of Chicago Press

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0226068595

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9780226068596

Rose Henderson

A Woman for the People

By: J. Peter Campbell

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Rose Henderson

A Woman for the People

By: J. Peter Campbell

Feminism and the political left come to life in this account of an important early twentieth-century social activist.

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395

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773537643

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9780773537644

The Economic Policy of Online Media

Manufacture of Dissent

By: Peter Ayolov

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The Economic Policy of Online Media

Manufacture of Dissent

By: Peter Ayolov

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily based on the systematic manufacture of dissent. Following the media criticism tradition of Habermas and Chomsky, among others, the book shows how anger can motivate news consumption as the principle of divide-and-rule in the online media of the 21st century is systematically applied. The author posits that media addiction increases interest, therefore deliberate distortion of facts and the manufacture of dissent provide the media with a larger audience and this becomes the business model. This insightful volume will interest researchers, scholars, and students of media economics, political economy of media, digital media, propaganda, mass communication, and media literacy.

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126

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Taylor & Francis

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1000879046

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9781000879049

The Eclipse of Darwinism

Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900

By: Peter J. Bowler

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The Eclipse of Darwinism

Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900

By: Peter J. Bowler

In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.

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320

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0801829321

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9780801829321

Science for All

The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

By: Peter J. Bowler

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Science for All

The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

By: Peter J. Bowler

Recent 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 that once science became a profession around the turn of the century, this new generation of scientists turned its collective back on public outreach. Science for All debunks this apocryphal notion. Peter J. Bowler surveys the books, serial works, magazines, and newspapers published between 1900 and the outbreak of World War II to show that practicing scientists were very active in writing about their work for a general readership. Science for All argues that the social environment of early twentieth-century Britain created a substantial market for science books and magazines aimed at those who had benefited from better secondary education but could not access higher learning. Scientists found it easy and profitable to write for this audience, Bowler reveals, and because their work was seen as educational, they faced no hostility from their peers. But when admission to colleges and universities became more accessible in the 1960s, this market diminished and professional scientists began to lose interest in writing at the nonspecialist level. Eagerly anticipated by scholars of scientific engagement throughout the ages, Science for All sheds light on our own era and the continuing tension between science and public understanding.

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353

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University of Chicago Press

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0226068668

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9780226068664

Evolution

The History of an Idea

By: Peter J. Bowler

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Evolution

The History of an Idea

By: Peter J. Bowler

The comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact on one of the most controversial of scientific theories.

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Univ of California Press

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0520236939

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9780520236936

Life's Splendid Drama

Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940

By: Peter J. Bowler

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Life's Splendid Drama

Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940

By: Peter J. Bowler

As Bowler tracks major scientific debates over the emergence of the vertebrates, the origins of the main types of living animals, and the rise and extinction of groups such as the dinosaurs, his richly detailed accounts bring to light complex interactions among specialists in various fields of biology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226069214

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9780226069210

Credo:

The Rose Wilder Lane Story

By: Peter Bagge

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Credo:

The Rose Wilder Lane Story

By: Peter Bagge

The life story of the feminist founder of the American libertarian movement Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer--the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Following the popularity and critical acclaim of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story and Fire The Zora Neale Hurston Story, Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story is a fast-paced, charming, informative look at the brilliant Lane. Highly accomplished, she was a founder of the American libertarian movement and a champion of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, in bringing the classic Little House on the Prairie series to the American public. Like Sanger and Hurston, Lane was an advocate for women's rights who led by example, challenging norms in her personal and professional life. Anti-government and anti-marriage, Lane didn't think that gender should hold anyone back from experiencing all the world had to offer. Though less well-known today, in her lifetime she was one of the highest-paid female writers in America and a political and literary luminary, friends with Herbert Hoover, Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis, and Ayn Rand, to name a few. Bagge's portrait of Lane is heartfelt and affectionate, probing into the personal roots of her rugged individualism. Credo is a deeply researched dive into a historical figure whose contributions to American society are all around us, from the books we read to the politics we debate.

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Drawn & Quarterly

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1770464166

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9781770464162

Who Fears to Speak of '98'?

Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen

By: Peter Collins

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Who Fears to Speak of '98'?

Commemoration and the Continuing Impact of the United Irishmen

By: Peter Collins

The Rebellion of 1798 was one of the most crucial events in modern Irish history, and the bicentenary commemorations throughout Ireland in 1998 provided much new understanding of an issue that has, down the years, been as divisive as it has been formative. Peter Collins provides here an absorbing and sensitively handled account of the changing nature of how the rebellion has been commemorated over the last 200 years. A particularly helpful feature of this book is the detailed almanac it provides of the commemorative bicentary events held throughout the island of Ireland in 1998. They were notable not only for quality of their output but also, encouragingly, for their inclusivity. For the most part, this time commemoration of '98 was an activity in which people found a common purpose rather than the source of divisiveness it had tended to be in years gone by.

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Ulster Historical Foundation

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190368823X

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9781903688236

Rebels

The Irish Rising of 1916

By: Peter De Rosa

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Rebels

The Irish Rising of 1916

By: Peter De Rosa

A WORK OF GREAT DRAMATIC POWER climaxing in the final hundred pages where he writes a full, searing narrative of the patriot leaders' last days . . . It's powerful stuff." --The Sunday Press (Ireland) On Easter Monday of 1916, a thousand Irish men and women, armed with pikes and rifles, took over the center of Dublin and proclaimed a republic. It was a rash, doomed, symbolic uprising, and the rebel leaders knew it. Crack British troops killed and wounded hundreds of the rebels in the week of fighting, and British artillery shells left Dublin's city center in ruins. But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain. The short-lived insurrection and the subsequent executions of sixteen rebel leaders galvanized the Irish people. The overthrow of seven centuries of British rule in Ireland began on Easter Monday, 1916. In Rebels, Peter de Rosa, author of the bestselling Vicars of Christ, tells the story of the 1916 Rising in all its terror and beauty. With the dramatic flair of a novelist and the scrupulous accuracy of a professional historian, de Rosa brings to life the people, passions, politics, and repercussions of this historic event.

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Ballantine Books

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0307422941

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9780307422941

Artefacts of Writing

Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

By: Peter D. McDonald

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Artefacts of Writing

Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing

By: Peter D. McDonald

Explores the relationship between literature and international relations and considers how writing resists norms and puts any fixed or final idea of community in question. Part I examines the European context (1860 to 1945) and Part II analyses the traditions of disruptive writing that emerged out of sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia after 1945.

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Oxford University Press

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0198725159

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9780198725152

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The Earth Encompassed

The Earth Encompassed

Message from the Dead

Message from the Dead

Stay Lucky

Stay Lucky

Reconciling Science and Religion

Reconciling Science and Religion

Rose Henderson

Rose Henderson

The Economic Policy of Online Media

The Economic Policy of Online Media

The Eclipse of Darwinism

The Eclipse of Darwinism

Science for All

Science for All

Evolution

Evolution

Life's Splendid Drama

Life's Splendid Drama

Credo:

Credo:

Who Fears to Speak of '98'?

Who Fears to Speak of '98'?

Rebels

Rebels

Artefacts of Writing

Artefacts of Writing

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