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Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Fiction Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Juvenile literature Evolution (Biology) Galapagos Islands Description and travel Life Origin Natural history Galapagos Islands Naturalists Naturalists England Biography Treasure troves Juvenile fictionMeyer, Stephen C.
Summary: Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 MEYCosta, James T.
Summary: "James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARWIN, CHARLES COSPreston, Diana
Summary: "When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PREGibbs, Stuart
Summary: After saving the world, Charlie is ready to take it easy in the Galapagos Islands. That is, until she's approached by the mysterious Esmeralda Castle, who has a code she knows only Charlie can decipher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Darwin's foremost biographer, historian Janet Browne, delivers an accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 BROOwen, Polly
Summary: The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth. A scholarly worm gives historical facts and context on every page.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 592.64 OWEGibbs, Stuart
Summary: "Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series GibbsThermes, Jennifer
Summary: "This gorgeous picture book biography follows Charles Darwin's adventures in South America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 508 THEDarnton, John.
Summary: Darnton blends fact and fiction to explore the life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DARFuller, Randall
Summary: Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 FULRollins, James
Summary: A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLStott, Rebecca.
Summary: Tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, arguing that the idea emerged over many centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 STOSís, Peter
Summary: Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DARJohnson, Paul
Summary: Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.8 JOHNorman, Andrew
Summary: Looks at the life of Charles Darwin, and how the young man who liked to avoid controversy came to formulate one of the most controversial theories in history, with a focus on the years he spent developing his thinking on natural selection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARWIN, CHARLES NORQuammen, David
Summary: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 QUAChaffin, Tom
Summary: "Charles Darwin--alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein--ranks among the world's most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at us from behind a bushy white Old Testament beard. This image of Darwin the Sage, however, crowds out the vital younger man whose curiosities, risk-taking, and travels aboard HMS Beagle would shape his later theories and served as the foundation of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.09 CHAGrant, K. Thalia.
Summary: The first book to recreate Darwin's historic visit to the islands, following in his footsteps day by day and island by island as he records all that he observes around him. Features color and black-and-white photographs and line drawings, as well as detailed maps of Darwin's island itinerary and informative box features on the archipelago's natural history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROBBalliett, Blue
Summary: In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BALKricher, John C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006
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Summary: "Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they've been since life's creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life's Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MITeen Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 509 HAKMcCalman, Iain.
Summary: Cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. He steps back in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers and reveals the untold story of how they campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 MCCMiller, Jonathan
Summary: Describes the life, ideas, and accomplishments of scientist Charles Darwin, and features humorous illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003