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The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson
Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life--evolution--and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental ......
Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After Vietnam four distinguished scholars focus on different elements of the war's legacy, while one of the major architects of the conflict, former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara, contributes a final chapter ......
In The Irish War military veteran and historian Tony Geraghty reveals the sinister patterns of action and reaction in this generations-old domestic conflict. Drawing on public and covert sources, as well as interviews with members of British Intelligence, the security forces, and the Irish Republican Army, he brings to light the disturbing inner ......
Josephine Jacobsen's distinguished career as poet and writer spans more than six decades, from the publication of her first poem at age eleven to her 1994 American Academy of the Arts Citation, which celebrated her as a recipient of ''almost every major poetry award.'' From 1971 to 1973 she served two terms as Consultant in Poetry to the Library ......
How did Byron become ''Byron''? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations young Byron performed at Harrow School. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public ......
''Josephine Jacobsen gives us a startling word-by-word gift. Her charactershuman and animalknow edginess and exhilaration. She is unfoolable. Her judgment is lyric, wise, and daring. She looks all around, her angle of vision invariably original, able to switch from the periscopic to the circumferential.''--The 1995 National Book Awards The ......
''Three cheers for Robert Phillips. We need more poets like him.''Robert Richman, New York Times Book Review Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected ''transition generation''--poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically ......
The tapping of the first commercial oil well by Edwin Drake and Billy Smith in 1859 set off an exploitative boom of industrial development reminiscent of the California gold rush ten years earlier. Within a few short years, the farms and forests of northwestern Pennsylvania were obliterated and replaced with oil derricks, storage tanks, pump ......
In Primers for Prudery Ronald G. Walters examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in nineteenth-century America. Allowing the authors of these manuals to speak for themselves--with generous excerpts by contemporary authorities on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of ......
