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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is the 2001 Greek-language translation of the book originally published in 1991, with most of the text in Greek. Binding has light wear. 287 p., illustrated. [b 299].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. This is the 1998 Korean-language translation of the book originally published in 1991, with most of the text in Korean. Spine tips have light wear. 245 p., with 10 p. of plates. [br 9 ; br 28].

Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. xiv, 195 p., Ill. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. - Contents -- 1 Who Is Darwin? -- 2. Confronting the Creationists: The First Darwinian Revolution -- 3. How Species Originate -- 4. Ideological Opposition to Darwin's Five Theories -- 5 The Struggle against Physicists and Philosophers -- 6 Darwin's Path to the Theory of Natural Selection -- 7 What Is Darwinism? -- 8 A Hard Look at Soft Inheritance: Neo-Darwinism -- 9. Geneticists and Naturalists Reach a Consensus: The Second Darwinian Revolution -- 10 New Frontiers in Evolutionary Biology -- References -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

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Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Wie neu. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 239 Seiten mit Illustrationen, graphischen Darstellungen und Karten. 19 cm. Sehr guter Zustand. Ernst Walter Mayr (* 5. Juli 1904 in Kempten (Allgäu); 3. Februar 2005 in Bedford) war ein deutsch-amerikanischer Biologe und der Hauptvertreter der modernen synthetischen Evolutionstheorie. Nach Ansicht zahlreicher Kollegen zählt er zu den größten und einflussreichsten Naturforschern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Leben: Ernst Mayr wurde am 5. Juli 1904 in Kempten im Allgäu geboren, wuchs aber in Sachsen auf. Er war der zweite Sohn des Landgerichtsrats Dr. Otto Mayr und Helene Mayr. Schon als Junge interessierte er sich für Vögel. 1923 schrieb er seine erste Abhandlung über die von ihm bei Moritzburg im Freiland beobachtete Kolbenente. Im gleichen Jahr begann er an der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald Medizin zu studieren, wechselte aber schon früh zur Zoologie und arbeitete am Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 1926 wurde er mit 21 Jahren in Zoologie über ein ornithologisches Thema promoviert. Sein Förderer Erwin Stresemann schickte Mayr 1928 und 1930 auf eine Expedition nach Neuguinea und zu den Salomon-Inseln, wo er für den begeisterten Vogelfreund Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2. Baron Rothschild Vögel sammelte. Die dort gewonnenen Kenntnisse zur Biogeographie wurden zur Grundlage seiner späteren evolutionstheoretischen Überlegungen. 1931 ging er in die Vereinigten Staaten, um am American Museum of Natural History in New York, dem größten naturwissenschaftlichen Museum der Welt, als Vogelexperte die Vogelsammlung zu bearbeiten. Rund 20 Jahre blieb er in New York. 1953 wechselte er an die Harvard-Universität in Cambridge, wo er dafür sorgte, dass die Evolutionstheorie, bis dahin ein Stiefkind der amerikanischen biologischen Wissenschaften, zu größerem Ansehen gelangte. Auch nach seiner Emeritierung 1975 arbeitete er weiter am Museum of Comparative Zoology der Harvard-Universität, wo er bis zu seinem Tode tätig war. Er starb nach sehr kurzer Krankheit in Bedford (Massachusetts). Wirken: Berühmt wurde Mayr als Hauptvertreter der Synthetischen Theorie der Evolution", die Charles Darwins Konzept der natürlichen Auslese" mit den Erkenntnissen der Genetik in Einklang brachte. Er schrieb grundlegende Arbeiten zur Systematik, in denen er unter anderem das Konzept der biologischen Art als einer Fortpflanzungsgemeinschaft entwickelte, ferner zur Artbildung (1942 etwa sein einflussreiches Buch Systematics and the Origin of Species), des weiteren philosophische Abhandlungen zur Typologie und zum Essentialismus. Mayr entwickelte auch die heute allgemein akzeptierte Vorstellung der allopatrischen Artbildung, nach der die Aufspaltung einer Art in zwei Tochterarten durch geographische Separation ausgelöst werden kann. Mayr vertrat die These, dass die Biologie in gewisser Weise unabhängig sei von den in Physik und Chemie geltenden Naturgesetzen, da die Besonderheiten der einzelnen Arten nicht aus reproduzierbaren Gesetzen, sondern aus einmaligen historischen Ereignissen heraus entstünden. Deshalb dürfe man in der Biologie nicht von Gesetzen, sondern müsse eher von Konzepten sprechen. 1998 und 2001 erschienen als seine jüngsten Veröffentlichungen: This is Biology (deutsch erschienen als Das ist Biologie, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag) und What Evolution is (deutsche Ausgabe: Das ist Evolution, Bertelsmann-Verlag). In einem Nachruf beschrieb der Berliner Evolutionsbiologe Matthias Glaubrecht in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 8. Februar 2005 die Bedeutung Ernst Walter Mayrs so: Während Darwin mit seiner Selektionstheorie 1859 nurmehr den Rohbau eines epochalen Gedankengebäudes schuf, hat sich Mayr vor allem in den 1930er- und 1940er-Jahren an den Innenausbau gemacht." . Aus: wikipedia-Ernst_Mayr Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 240.

Condition: Fine in fine jacket. First printing. Inscribed first edition of this history of evolutionary thought by Mayr, "a man considered by many to be the greatest evolutionist of the century." Mayr, one of the architects of the synthetic theory of evolution, "must also be credited with almost singlehandedly starting the study of the philosophy of biology, and for developing the study of the history of biology" (Marks). Here, the celebrated (and much-decorated) biologist "elucidate the subtleties of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries" in this distillation of Darwin's legacy, one of Mayr's later works. A devotee of Darwin by the time of the writing of this book, ONE LONG ARGUMENT is the culmination of Mayr's decades of study on the topic and the result of his efforts to write a book that is both dedicated exclusively to Darwinism and accessible to "students and lay-people broadly interested in the role of Darwin's thought in the history of ideas." A fresh signed copy. 9.25'' x 6''. Original green cloth, backed in black, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($19.95) color photographic jacket designed by Marianne Perlak. Textured sandy endpapers. xvi, 196 pages. Inscribed by Ernst to title page: "For Fernando Vega / with best wishes / Ernst Mayr." Jacket with trace rubbing. Book clean.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 540. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1632 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 540.

First collected edition of Lithgow's chief work, "a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places" (DNB). The author "cuts an eccentric figure even in the company of other early-seventeenth-century British travellers" (Speake). William Lithgow (1582-1645?) travelled extensively across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East on three journeys between 1609 and 1629. He claimed to have walked some 58,000 kilometres (almost one and a half times the Earth's circumference). The intrepid Scotsman published his travels in 1614, 1616, and 1623; this expanded edition includes descriptions of his second and third tours. "His adventures include being assailed in Libya, beset in Moldavia, and being arrested and tortured as a spy in Malaga. He bathed in the River Jordan, visited the holy shrines and took home a few souvenirs including 'a pair of Garters of the Holy Grave, all richly wrought in Silk and Gold' for presentation to Queen Anne, wife of James I. Embedded in his euphuistic narrative are the first reports of such novelties as coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, the Aleppo-Baghdad pigeon post, artificial incubation, and Turkish tobacco pipes" (Howgego). "Christian-Muslim themes abound in the book. [including] a short account of the main features of the Islamic faith and a critical though not very original depiction of the life of Muhammad, which incorporates elements familiar from late medieval Christian polemics" (Thomas, pp. 233-4). His stories include enriching himself from the bodies of two barons who mutually killed each other in a duel, capturing a pirate ship, his companions dying of thirst in the desert, and various near-death experiences. Since the only proof for many of his tall tales is his own word, it is clear that he still followed early modern traditions of myth-making in travel writing. The Totall Discourse "is lively and opinionated, as Lithgow mixes astute observations with dogmatic self-righteousness. Despite his views, he obviously made acquaintances on his travels and was able to extract information from useful local sources. His style is often ornate, perhaps as an attempt to compensate for his relatively humble origins with his metropolitan English readership. But Lithgow, at his best, has an eye and ear for the ordinary details that mark out different cultures" (Speake). ESTC S108574; Howgego L134; Speake II, p. 729. C. Edmund Bosworth, An intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central Europe, 1609-1621, 2017. David Thomas, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 8, 2011. Quarto (190 x 132 mm): A-3V4; 264 leaves. Integral woodcut frontispiece, repeated on S2v, and 7 further illustrations, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary sprinkled calf, sometime rebacked with original spine laid down, smooth spine with brown morocco label, covers ruled in blind, edges sprinkled red. Illegible signature on front free endpaper dated 1837; bookplate of one George Harwood on front pastedown; old pen underlining on 2Z2; later pencil annotations to rear pastedown. Corners and board edges judiciously repaired, small tidemark to head of preliminary leaves (not touching printed area), minor soiling to 3M1: a very good copy.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1632. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: - 540, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 540.