What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture?: Comparing Conceptual Worlds of the Bible and Evolution by Dru JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6 MbOverview: Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been the most Darwinian text in the ancient world. And throughout the opening books of Scripture, we find ideas that would also become […]
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John DarwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.1 MBOverview: John Darwin’s After Tamerlane, a sweeping six-hundred-year history of empires around the globe, marked him as a historian of “massive erudition” and narrative mastery. In Unfinished Empire, he marshals his gifts to deliver a monumental one-volume history of Britain’s imperium-a work […]
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 by John DarwinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.24 MBOverview: The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, ‘has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire’ and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. […]
Darwin’s Historical Sketch: An Examination of the ‘Preface’ to the Origin of Species by Curtis N. JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.1 MBOverview: Charles Darwin’s “Historical Sketch” has appeared as a preface to nearly every authorized edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species since the second English edition was published in 1860. The “Historical Sketch” provides a brief […]
The Darwin Variant by Kenneth JohnsonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2 MBOverview: When the icy shards of a rogue comet fall to Earth, they bring an unknown virus that accelerates evolution to extremes. Suddenly, infected plants grow stronger, choking out those uninfected. Animals turn aggressive and deadly. The eyes of loved ones go cold, and infected neighbors […]