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Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
Author: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
Author: VariousThe Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866; A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Author: VariousPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789356018884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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The book "" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866; A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041708045
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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Louis Agassiz
Author: Christoph IrmscherPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547568924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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“This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all.” —The New York Times Book Review Charismatic and controversial Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz took America by storm in the early nineteenth century, becoming a defining force in American science. Yet today, many don’t know the complex story behind this revolutionary figure. At a young age, Agassiz—zoologist, glaciologist, and paleontologist—was invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, and he never left. An obsessive pioneer in field research, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike—and entered into collaboration with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth, a science writer in her own right and first president of Radcliffe College. But there was a dark side to his reputation as well. Biographer Christoph Irmscher reveals unflinching evidence of Agassiz’s racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans at the time looked to men of science to mediate race policy. He also explores Agassiz’s stubborn resistance to evolution, his battles with a student—renowned naturalist Henry James Clark—and how he became a source of endless bemusement for Charles Darwin and esteemed botanist Asa Gray. “A wonderful . . . biography,” both inspiring and cautionary, it is for anyone interested in the history of American ideas (The Christian Science Monitor). “A model of what a talented and erudite literary scholar can do with a scientific subject.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
Author: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866; A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Author: VariousPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789356017948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The book "" The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866; A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
War and Words
Author: Sara Munson DeatsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739105795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as it represents it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization.
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