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• Author(s): Fara • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryDr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side ...

• Author(s): Anna Matalová • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: History • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsFrom the Back CoverThe major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-18...

• Author(s): Michael Freeman • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryAbout the Book As the Victorians excavated the earth to create canals and railways in the early part of the nineteenth century, geol...

• Author(s): Gilsdorf Janet R. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryNot all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 2...

• Author(s): Alessandro Antonello • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Polar RegionsAbout the Book This book systematically covers the sensory, physical, chemical nutrition, and processing characterist...

• Author(s): Fritz Stern • Publisher: Princeton UP • Publisher Imprint: Prince UP • Subject: HistoryThe French political philosopher Raymond Aron once observed that the twentieth century "could have been Germany's century." In 1900, the country w...

• Author(s): Mushirul Hasan • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: History

• Author(s): Theodore Ayrault Dodge • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe two Volumes book is a classic study of Alexander the Great and his influence on the art of war. It is a highly fascinating and readable ...

• Author(s): Newton, Isaac Sir, 1642-1727 • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge bas...

• Author(s): H.G. Wells • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryA Short History of the World, largely inspired by Wells’ earlier 1919 work The Outline of History, is a monumental account of the physical, spiritual, a...

• Author(s): Wolfgang Behringer • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive floodin...

• Author(s): Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: HistoryAbout the Book One family's mission "With the fires of hatred rekindled in the North by the assassination and in the South by emancipation, the e...

• Author(s): Kemp Martin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralAbout the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a high...