The Heyday of Natural History, 1820-1870
Author | : Lynn Barber |
Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lynn Barber |
Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynn Barber |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"A study of the Victorian obsession with natural history incorporates portraits of the most popular naturalists--many of them notorious eccentrics--and examines the attempt to inculcate moral principles through natural theology." -- Amazon.com viewed November 5, 2020.
Author | : Elise Virginia Lemire |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780812236644 |
"The sexualizing of race and the racializing of sex have shaped U.S. society in powerful and destructive ways. Lemire's brief, well-researched, and thoughtful book illustrates how key components of this protean process became part of the worldview of nineteenth-century white society."--Choice
Author | : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1137342404 |
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Author | : Jane Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2017-08-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107191440 |
This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa's national parks during the twentieth century.
Author | : A Joseph Henry Press book |
Publisher | : Joseph Henry Press |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 1996-10-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309055849 |
"The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of life forms for more than a billion years." With those words, Edward O. Wilson opened the landmark volume Biodiversity (National Academy Press, 1988). Despite this and other such alarms, species continue to vanish at a rapid rate, taking with them their genetic legacy and potential benefits. Many disappear before they can even be identified. Biodiversity II is a renewed call for urgency. This volume updates readers on how much we already know and how much remains to be identified scientifically. It explores new strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity, including: New approaches to the integration of electronic data, including a proposal for a U.S. National Biodiversity Information Center. Application of techniques developed in the human genome project to species identification and classification. The Gap Analysis Program of the National Biological Survey, which uses layered satellite, climatic, and biological data to assess distribution and better manage biodiversity. The significant contribution of museum collections to identifying and categorizing species, which is essential for understanding ecological function and for targeting organisms and regions at risk. The book describes our growing understanding of how megacenters of diversity (e.g., rainforest insects, coral reefs) are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropical primates have fared. It also explores ecosystem restoration, sustainable development, and agricultural impact. Biodiversity II reinforces the idea that the conservation of our biological resources is within reach as long as we pool resources; better coordinate the efforts of existing institutionsâ€"museums, universities, and government agenciesâ€"already dedicated to this goal; and enhance support for research, collections, and training. This volume will be important to environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, educators, students, and concerned individuals.
Author | : Kim Tolley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1135339201 |
The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and cultural obstacles that emerged to transform what, in the early nineteenth century, was regarded as a "girl's subject." As the form and content of pre-college science education developed, Tolley argues, direct competition between the sexes increased. Subsequently, the cultural construction of science as a male subject limited access and opportunity for girls.
Author | : Alan J. A. Stewart |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Insects |
ISBN | : 1845932552 |
These proceedings contain papers on insect conservation biology that are classified under 3 themes: (1) the current status of insect conservation, and major avenues for progress and hindrances (6 papers); (2) insects as model organisms in conservation biology (6 papers); and (3) future directions in insect conservation biology (6 papers).
Author | : Juliet John |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 813 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191082104 |
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.