Edited By Peter Fox:Cambridge University Library. The Great Collections
- Paperback 1998, ISBN: 9780521626477
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1957. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x7x1. Gibbings, Robert. Includes publisher's slipcase. Sandglass insert Number VIII:21 laid in. Spine… More...
New York: The Heritage Press, 1957. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x7x1. Gibbings, Robert. Includes publisher's slipcase. Sandglass insert Number VIII:21 laid in. Spine toned. 1957 Hard Cover. xvi, 489 pp. A chronicle of the scientific expedition which led to many of the observations about evolutionary biology for which Darwin is famous. This edition includes an introduction by Gavin de Beer and engravings by Robert Gibbings. "Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 â 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors, through the process he called natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, providing logical explanation for the diversity of life. At Edinburgh University Darwin neglected medical studies to investigate marine invertebrates, then the University of Cambridge encouraged a passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described the same idea, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories. His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil. In recognition of Darwin's pre-eminence, he was one of only five 19th-century UK non-royal personages to be honoured by a state funeral, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton., The Heritage Press, 1957, 3, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961. Book Club Edition. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. good condition/fair. 88 p. 21 cm. Notes. Name of previous owner written in book. DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and some tears. Some pages soiled The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen, at Harvard University, 1960. From Wikipedia: "Charles Percy Snow CBE (15 October 1905-1 July 1980), who was raised to the peerage as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as "Strangers and Brothers", and for "The Two Cultures", a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals". Born in Leicester to Ada and William Snow (a church organist and choirmaster), Charles was the second of four boys (his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow). Snow was educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College, now the University of Leicester, where he read chemistry for two years and proceeded to a master's degree in physics. From Leicester, Snow went on a scholarship to Cambridge and gained his PhD in physics (Spectroscopy). In 1930 he became a Fellow of Christ's College. He served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960. Snow's was among the 2, 300 names of prominent persons listed on the Nazi's Special Search List, GB of those who were to be arrested on the invasion of Great Britain and turned over to the Gestapo. As a politician he was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson. He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer, as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, in 1964. Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950. They had one son. Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in A Mathematician's Apology, the physicist P.M.S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J.D. Bernal and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun. At Christ's he tutored H. S. Hoff later better known as the novelist William Cooper. The two became friends, worked together in the civil service and wrote versions of each other into their novels: Snow was the model for the college dean, Robert, in Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life sequence. In 1960, he gave the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, about the clashes between Henry Tizard and F. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), both scientific advisors to British governments around the time of World War II. The lectures were subsequently published as Science and Government. For the academic year 1961 to 1962, Lord and Lady Snow served as Fellows on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University. Snow's first novel was a whodunit, Death under Sail (1932). In 1975 he wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope. But he is better known as the author of a sequence of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers depicting intellectuals in academic and government settings in the modern era. The Masters is the best-known novel of the sequence. It deals with the internal politics of a Cambridge college as it prepares to elect a new master, and has all the appeal of being an insider s view. The novel depicts concerns other than the strictly academic influencing the decisions of supposedly objective scholars. The Masters and The New Men were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954. Corridors of Power added a phrase to the language of the day. In 1974, Snow's novel In Their Wisdom was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Perez Galdos, Henry James and Marcel Proust Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel., Harvard University Press, 1961, 2.25, HARDBACK "VOLUME ONE ONLY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd . Thus.* Impression: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1951 * Publisher: Oxford University Press for the Harvard University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spines only. Some wear to edges, corners and to head & tail of spine. Slight marks to boards. GD.* Jacket condition: No original dust wrapper. This volume has been provided with a photocopied jacket in a clear un-attached archival wrapper to protect the book. ND* Contents condition: Ex library with the usual stamps and labels. Binding reasonably tight with light reading wear. There are grubby marks to the prelims and a few marks to some page margins. Minimal paper colouration throughout especially to page edges, otherwise a good legible oreference copy. GD++.* Illustrations: B/w facsimile prints and print examples throughout. One two-page print sample to this volume.* Pages: 276pp. text.* xvipp. supplementary notes to rear.* Description: In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Mr Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The numerous illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers.* This is a NEAR VG text copy with some age & shelf wear in a photo-copied dust jacket and an un-attached protective wrapper.* (Volume 2. also available separately from this seller).*, Harvard University Press, 1951-01-01, 0, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press. Very Good. 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Quarto 0521626471 Paperback Paperback. Cambridge University Library. The Great Collections. Ex-Cambridge Reference Library with ex-Cambridge Reference Library markings. Slight crease to corbner back cover. This book is a celebration of the treasures of the library from the perspective of a group of eminent scholars who actively use the collections for research: from the fourth-century Codex Bezae to the archives of contemoirary writers and politicians; from emdieval manuscripts to the letters of Charles Darwin; on history, theology, politics, sociology, art history, biology, agriculture, amthematics and astronomy. Extensive illustrated with over 200 photographs, many of them in colour and published for the first time, this book offers a unique perspective on a remarkable institution. Illustrated. 231 pp. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. 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