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London: Collins. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4.5" x 6.5. A book that expands on the work of Darwin et al to explain evolution and natural selection. No dated, but there is a previo… Plus…

London: Collins. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4.5" x 6.5. A book that expands on the work of Darwin et al to explain evolution and natural selection. No dated, but there is a previous owner's signature on the front free end paper that is dated 1914. Shows minor signs of handling / reading but still a tidy copy. Firm binding, no annotations. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK. Please email with any queries., Collins, 2.5, Arrow. Very Good. 5.09 x 0.98 x 7.78 inches. Paperback. 2017. 400 pages.<br>Fear Index Editorial Reviews About the Author ROB ERT HARRIS is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompei i, Imperium and The Ghost, all of which were international bestse llers. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge Universi ty, he worked as a reporter for the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegr aph. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four c hildren in a village near Hungerford. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by pe rmission. All rights reserved. Learn from me, if not by my precep ts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of k nowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his nativ e town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater tha n his nature will allow. --Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) Dr. Alexander Hoffmann sat by the fire in his study in Geneva, a hal f-smoked cigar lying cold in the ashtray beside him, an anglepois e lamp pulled low over his shoulder, turning the pages of a first edition of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin. The Victorian grandfather clock in the hall was s triking midnight but Hoffmann did not hear it. Nor did he notice that the fire was almost out. All his formidable powers of attent ion were directed onto his book. He knew it had been published i n London in 1872 by John Murray & Co. in an edition of seven thou sand copies, printed in two runs. He knew also that the second ru n had introduced a ­misprint--htat--on page 208. As the volume in his hands contained no such error, he presumed it must have come from the first run, thus greatly increasing its value. He turned it round and inspected the spine. The binding was in the origina l green cloth with gilt lettering, the spine-ends only slightly f rayed. It was what was known in the book trade as a fine copy, wo rth perhaps $15,000. He had found it waiting for him when he retu rned home from his office that evening, as soon as the New York m arkets had closed, a little after ten o'clock. Yet the strange th ing was, even though he collected scientific first editions and h ad browsed the book online and had in fact been meaning to buy it , he had not actually ordered it. His immediate thought had been that it must have come from his wife, but she had denied it. He had refused to believe her at first, following her around the kit chen as she set the table, holding out the book for her inspectio n. You're really telling me you didn't buy it for me? Yes, Alex . Sorry. It wasn't me. What can I say? Perhaps you have a secret admirer. You are totally sure about this? It's not our anniversa ry or anything? I haven't forgotten to give you something? For G od's sake, I didn't buy it, okay? It had come with no message ap art from a Dutch bookseller's slip: Rosengaarden & Nijenhuise, An tiquarian Scientific & Medical Books. Established 1911. Prinsengr acht 227, 1016 HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hoffmann had presse d the pedal on the waste bin and retrieved the bubble wrap and th ick brown paper. The parcel was correctly addressed, with a print ed label: Dr. Alex- ander Hoffmann, Villa Clairmont, 79 Chemin de Ruth, 1223 Col­ogny, Geneva, Switzerland. It had been dispatched by courier from Amsterdam the previous day. After they had eate n their supper--a fish pie and green salad prepared by the housek eeper before she went home--Gabrielle had stayed in the kitchen t o make a few anxious last-minute phone calls about her exhibition the next day, while Hoffmann had retreated to his study clutchin g the mysterious book. An hour later, when she put her head round the door to tell him she was going up to bed, he was still readi ng. She said, Try not to be too late, darling. I'll wait up for you. He did not reply. She paused in the doorway and considered him for a moment. He still looked young for forty-two, and had al ways been more handsome than he realised--a quality she found att ractive in a man as well as rare. It was not that he was modest, she had come to realise. On the contrary: he was supremely indiff erent to anything that did not engage him intellectually, a trait that had earned him a reputation among her friends for being dow nright bloody rude--and she quite liked that as well. His pretern aturally boyish American face was bent over the book, his spectac les pushed up and resting on the top of his thick head of light b rown hair; catching the firelight, the lenses seemed to flash a w arning look back at her. She knew better than to try to interrupt him. She sighed and went upstairs. Hoffmann had known for years that The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was one o f the first books to be published with photographs, but he had ne ver actually seen them before. Monochrome plates depicted Victori an artists' models and inmates of the Surrey Lunatic Asylum in va rious states of emotion--grief, despair, joy, defiance, terror--f or this was meant to be a study of Homo sapiens as animal, with a n animal's instinctive responses, stripped of the mask of social graces. Born far enough into the age of science to be photographe d, their misaligned eyes and skewed teeth nonetheless gave them t he look of crafty, superstitious peasants from the Middle Ages. T hey reminded Hoffmann of a childish nightmare--of grown-ups from an old-fashioned book of fairy tales who might come and steal you from your bed in the night and carry you off into the woods. An d there was another thing that unsettled him. The bookseller's sl ip had been inserted into the pages devoted to the emotion of fea r, as if the sender specifically intended to draw them to his att ention: The frightened man at first stands like a statue motionl ess or breathless, or crouches down as if instinctively to escape observation. The heart beats quickly and violently, so that it p alpitates or knocks against the ribs . . . Hoffmann had a habit when he was thinking of cocking his head to one side and gazing i nto the middle distance, and he did so now. Was this a coincidenc e? Yes, he reasoned, it must be. On the other hand, the physiolog ical effects of fear were so directly relevant to VIXAL-4, the pr oject he was presently involved in, that it did strike him as pec uliarly pointed. And yet VIXAL-4 was highly secret, known only to his research team, and although he took care to pay them well--$ 250,000 was the starting salary, with much more on offer in bonus es--it was surely unlikely any of them would have spent $15,000 o n an anonymous gift. One person who certainly could afford it, wh o knew all about the project and who would have seen the joke of it--if that was what this was: an expensive joke--was his busines s partner, Hugo Quarry, and Hoffmann, without even thinking about the hour, rang him. Hello, Alex. How's it going? If Quarry saw anything strange in being disturbed just after midnight, his perf ect manners would never have permitted him to show it. Besides, h e was accustomed to the ways of Hoffmann, the mad professor, as h e called him--and called him it to his face as well as behind his back, it being part of his charm always to speak to everyone in the same way, public or private. Hoffmann, still reading the des cription of fear, said distractedly, Oh, hi. Did you just buy me a book? I don't think so, old friend. Why? Was I supposed to? S omeone's just sent me a Darwin first edition and I don't know who . Sounds pretty valuable. It is. I thought, because you know ho w important Darwin is to VIXAL, it might be you. &thinsp;'Fraid not. Could it be a client? A thank-you gift and they've forgotte n to include a card? Lord knows, Alex, we've made them enough mon ey. Yeah, well. Maybe. Okay. Sorry to bother you. Don't worry. See you in the morning. Big day tomorrow. In fact, it's already t omorrow. You ought to be in bed by now. Sure. On my way. Night. As fear rises to an extreme pitch, the dreadful scream of terror is heard. Great beads of sweat stand on the skin. All the muscle s of the body are relaxed. Utter prostration soon follows, and th e mental powers fail. The intestines are affected. The sphincter muscles cease to act, and no longer retain the contents of the bo dy . . . Hoffmann held the volume to his nose and inhaled. A com pound of leather and library dust and cigar smoke, so sharp he co uld taste it, with a faint hint of something chemical--­formaldeh yde, perhaps, or coal gas. It put him in mind of a nineteenth-cen tury laboratory or lecture theatre, and for an instant he saw Bun sen burners on wooden benches, flasks of acid and the skeleton of an ape. He reinserted the bookseller's slip to mark the page and carefully closed the book. Then he carried it over to the shelve s and with two fingers gently made room for it between a first ed ition of On the Origin of Species, which he had bought at auction at Sotheby's in New York for $125,000, and a leather-bound copy of The Descent of Man that had once belonged to T. H. Huxley. La ter, he would try to remember the exact sequence of what he did n ext. He consulted the Bloomberg terminal on his desk for the fina l prices in the United States: the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the ­NASDAQ had all ended down. He had an email exchange with Susumu Takahashi, the duty dealer in charge of execution on VIXAL-4 ove rnight, who reported that everything was functioning smoothly, an d reminded him that the Tokyo Stock Exchange would reopen in less than two hours' time following the annual three-day Golden Week holiday. It would certainly open down, to catch up with what had been a week of falling prices in Europe and the United States. An d there was one other thing: VIXAL was proposing to short another three million shares in Procter & Gamble at $62 a share, which w ould bring their overall position up to six million--a big trade: would Hoffmann approve it? Hoffmann emailed OK, threw away his u nfinished cigar, put a fine-meshed metal guard in front of the fi replace and switched off the study lights. In the hall he checked to see that the front door was locked and then set the burglar a larm with its four-digit code: 1729. (The numerals came from an e xchange between the mathematicians G. H. Hardy and S. I. Ramanuja n in 1920, when Hardy went in a taxi cab with that number to visi t his dying colleague in hospital and com­­plained it was a rathe r dull number, to which Ramanujan responded: No, Hardy! No, Hardy ! It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expr essible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.) He left j ust one lamp lit downstairs--of that he was sure--then climbed th e curved white marble staircase to the bathroom. He took off his spectacles, undressed, washed, brushed his teeth and put on a pai r of blue silk pyjamas. He set the alarm on his mobile for six th irty, registering as he did so that the time was then twenty past twelve. In the bedroom he was surprised to find Gabrielle still awake, lying on her back on the counterpane in a black silk kimo no. A scented candle flickered on the dressing table; otherwise t he room was in darkness. Her hands were clasped behind her head, her elbows sharply pointed away from her, her legs crossed at the knee. One slim white foot, the toenails painted dark red, was ma king impatient circles in the fragrant air. Oh God, he said. I'd forgotten the date. Don't worry. She untied her belt and parted the silk, then held out her arms to him. I never forget it. ., Arrow, 2017, 3, New York, New York, USA: Shaye Areheart Books/Random House, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Jacket not price-clipped. Handsome binding in two-tones of blue, with turquoise titles, clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners, Internals immaculate. A savage, darkly comic, literary debut novel that exposes the false idols of marital tranquility, small town idyll, and corporate Darwinism. A beautiful work of cunning and pathos. Nancy Mauro opens the hearts of her characters, their vain desires and everyday tragedies. 292 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Shaye Areheart Books/Random House, New York, 2009., Shaye Areheart Books/Random House, 2009, 5, New York: Dutton, 1995. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Biography couples the drama of a great man's life with a clear rendering of his contributions to scientific knowledge; eliminates the misconceptions that have distorted Darwin's work. 322 pages, DJ spine slightly faded.; 6 x 9, Dutton, 1995, 4, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2008. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.As the work at the heart of Christianity, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book, translated into over two thousand languages, and the world's best selling book, year after year. But the Bible is a complex work with a complicated and obscure history. Made up of sixty-six "books" written by various authors and divided into two testaments, its contents have changed over the centuries. The Bible has been transformed by translation and, through interpretation, has developed manifold meanings to various religions, denominations, and sects. In this seminal account, acclaimed historian Karen Armstrong discusses the conception, gestation, and life of history's most powerful book. Armstrong analyzes the social and political situation in which oral history turned into written scripture, how this all-pervasive scripture was collected into one work, and how it became accepted as Christianity's sacred text. She explores how scripture came to be read for information, and how, in the nineteenth century, historical criticism of the Bible caused greater fear than Darwinism. This is a brilliant, captivating book, crucial in an age of declining faith and rising fundamentalism., Douglas & McIntyre, 2008, 4, Harmony Books, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. vi, 352 pp. 8vo. "In recent years, the claims of genetics and evolutionary psychology to explain and indeed legislate on the human condition have been loudly trumpeted in a host of popular books. Genes are said to account for almost every aspect of our lives. Evolution is supposed to explain alleged human universals, from male philandering and female coyness to children's dislike of spinach. There are even claimed to be genes that account for differences between people -- from sexual orientation to drug addiction, aggression, religiosity, and job satisfaction. It appears that Darwin, at least in the hands of his popularizers, has replaced Marx and Freud as the great interpreter of human existence. Biologists, social scientists, and philosophers have begun to rebel against this undisciplined approach to their different understandings of the world, demonstrating that the claims of evolutionary psychology rest on shaky empirical evidence, flawed premises, and unexamined political presuppositions. In this groundbreaking book, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose have gathered the leading and outspoken critics of this fashionable ideology in a shared and uniquely cross-disciplinary project. Contributors range from biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Gabriel Dover, Patrick Bateson, and Anne Fausto-Sterling; to anthropologists and sociologists Dorothy Nelkin, Tim Ingold, Tom Shakespeare, and Ted Benton; to philosopher Mary Midgley and cultural critics Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Charles Jencks. The result of this joint work, Alas Poor Darwin, is a sharply engaged, accessible, and highly entertaining critique of evolutionary psychology's tenets. What emerges is a new perspective that challenges the reductionism of evolutionary psychology and offers a richer understanding of the biosocial nature of the human condition., Harmony Books, 2000, 3, New York: Harper Perennail, 2019. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Sixth printing. Light wear on bottom corners of wrapper. 2019 Trade Paperback. 463 pp. How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family's one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town's powerful men. Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters paint a startlingly relevant portrait of life in precarious times when the foundations of the past have failed to prepare us for the future., Harper Perennail, 2019, 4, USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with clear book tape. Cover is bright and clean with slight edgewear; tightly bound. Only lib mark is tag on spine. Page edges clean with lib stamp. Internals very clean with first page only page with lib marks, othewise very clean and free from any other markings. A book about great literary works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe and ourselves. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring--This is the revised and expanded edition, an informed discussion of many of the most important works ever written, from religion to science, psychlogy to economics, by these influential writings by pioneers in the realm of knowledge. Aristotle, Euripedes, Pllutarch, St. Augustine, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Newton, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, Jenner, Malthus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and 28 others. 352 pages with Bibliographical Notes and Index. 4.2 x 6.8 inches. Signet Classic, New York, 2004., Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004, 3<

2014, ISBN: 9780451529282

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Bloomsbury, Great Britain, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lomark is well aware of as the biology teacher at t… Plus…

Bloomsbury, Great Britain, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Adaptation is everything, something Frau Lomark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. It is the beginning of the new school year, but, as people look west in search of work and opportunities, it's future begins to be in doubt. Frau Lohmark has no sympathy for her pupils and scorns indulgent younger teachers who talk to their students as peers, play games with them, or (worse) even go so far as to have 'favourites'. A strict devotee of the Darwinian principle of evolution, Frau Lohmark believes that only the best specimens of a species are fit to succeed. But now everything and everyone resists the old way of things and Inge Lohmark is forced to confront her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive. Written with cool elegance and humane irony, The Giraffe's Neck is an exquisite revelation of a novel, and what the novel can do, that will resonate in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned. 211 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781408843796. Inventory No: 261384.. 9781408843796, Bloomsbury, 2014, 3, USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with clear book tape. Cover is bright and clean with slight edgewear; tightly bound. Only lib mark is tag on spine. Page edges clean with lib stamp. Internals very clean with first page only page with lib marks, othewise very clean and free from any other markings. A book about great literary works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe and ourselves. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring--This is the revised and expanded edition, an informed discussion of many of the most important works ever written, from religion to science, psychlogy to economics, by these influential writings by pioneers in the realm of knowledge. Aristotle, Euripedes, Pllutarch, St. Augustine, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Newton, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, Jenner, Malthus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and 28 others. 352 pages with Bibliographical Notes and Index. 4.2 x 6.8 inches. Signet Classic, New York, 2004., Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780451529282

USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with c… Plus…

USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with clear book tape. Cover is bright and clean with slight edgewear; tightly bound. Only lib mark is tag on spine. Page edges clean with lib stamp. Internals very clean with first page only page with lib marks, othewise very clean and free from any other markings. A book about great literary works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe and ourselves. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring--This is the revised and expanded edition, an informed discussion of many of the most important works ever written, from religion to science, psychlogy to economics, by these influential writings by pioneers in the realm of knowledge. Aristotle, Euripedes, Pllutarch, St. Augustine, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Newton, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, Jenner, Malthus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and 28 others. 352 pages with Bibliographical Notes and Index. 4.2 x 6.8 inches. Signet Classic, New York, 2004., Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780451529282

USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with clear book tape. Cover i… Plus…

USA: Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Type: Ex-Library Paperback in Good Condition. Spine reinforced with clear book tape. Cover is bright and clean with slight edgewear; tightly bound. Only lib mark is tag on spine. Page edges clean with lib stamp. Internals very clean with first page only page with lib marks, othewise very clean and free from any other markings. A book about great literary works that revolutionized our ideas about the universe and ourselves. From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring--This is the revised and expanded edition, an informed discussion of many of the most important works ever written, from religion to science, psychlogy to economics, by these influential writings by pioneers in the realm of knowledge. Aristotle, Euripedes, Pllutarch, St. Augustine, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Newton, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, Jenner, Malthus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and 28 others. 352 pages with Bibliographical Notes and Index. 4.2 x 6.8 inches. Signet Classic, New York, 2004., Signet Classic/New American Lib, 2004, 3<