Janet Browne is a professor at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. She is the author of the landmark two-volume biography of Charles Darwin: Voyaging, as well as The Power of Place and Darwin's Origin of Species (Atlantic 2006).
9 Ebooks by Janet Browne
Janet Browne: Darwin’s Origin of Species
No book has changed our understanding of ourselves more than Darwin's Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its first day of publication in 1859 and went on to become an international best …
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€6.99
Janet Browne & Adrian Desmond: Charles Darwin
Definitive, concise, and very interesting… From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain’s most fascinat …
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€5.08
Charles Darwin: Descent of Man
In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of l …
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€3.85
Charles Darwin: Voyage of the Beagle
When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a natura …
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€9.49
Janet Browne: Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Few lives of great men offer so much interest – and so many mysteries – as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries a …
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€14.99
Janet Browne: Charles Darwin Volume 2
This concluding volume of Janet Browne’s biography covers the transformation in Darwin’s life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publicati …
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€14.99
Janet Browne: The Quotable Darwin
A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalist Here is Charles Darwin in his own words—the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial auth …
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€26.99
Jeremy DeSilva: A Most Interesting Problem
Leading scholars take stock of Darwin’s ideas about human evolution in the light of modern science In 1871, Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, a companion to Origin of Species in which he a …
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€20.99
William F. Bynum & Janet Browne: Dictionary of the History of Science
For readers interested in the development of major scientific concepts and the role of science in the western world, here is the first conceptually organized historical dictionary of scientific thoug …
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€124.99
