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The Constitutional Convention
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats?without... more...
Evolution
Random House Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95?I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.? So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle , bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head... more...
Trial and Error
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 26.00The teaching of Darwin's theories has been a controversial issue in American high schools for over a century. This study of the subject has been revised to include a chapter dealing with the continuation of the evolutionism versus creationism controversy in the 1980s. more...
Trial and Error
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 26.99The debate over teaching evolution in the public schools is one of the most emotionally charged controversies in twentieth-century America. This edition which ranges from before the Scopes trial of 1925 to the creationism disputes of the 1980's - offers an account of the educational and legal battles erupting from this persistent belief. more...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
Free Press 2007; US$ 21.99CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election?an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second... more...
Summer for the Gods
Basic Books 2008; US$ 16.95Reissued with a new preface: the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that is ?quite simply the best book ever written on the Scopes Trial and its place in American history and myth.? more...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
Free Press 2007; Not AvailableCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election?an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second... more...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
Free Press 2007; US$ 16.87CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election?an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second... more...
The Origin of Species
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 12.00Introduction by Edward J. Larson ?Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out its first printing on the very day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the... more...
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