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  • Catching Nature in the Act

    Réaumur & the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

    by Mary Terrall ...
    Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Curious Encounters

    Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Mary Terrall, Adriana Craciun ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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  • The Cave Painters

    Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists

    by Gregory Curtis ...
    The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon people of some 40,000 years ago. He takes us through ... Read more

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  • On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection (1st Edition): Preservation Of Favoured Races In The Struggle For Life (Mobi Classics)

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on Thursday 24 November 1859, is a seminal work of scientific literature considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dyer's Handbook

    Memoirs of an 18th-Century Master Colourist

    by Dominique Cardon ...
    Series Book 26 - Ancient Textiles
    Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English……..just some of the color names of old fabric to fire the imagination. Memoirs on Dyeing concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for ... Read more

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  • The Sensational Past

    How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

    by Carolyn Purnell ...
    Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Meaning of Fossils

    Episodes in the History of Palaeontology

    by Martin J.S. Rudwick ...
    "It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology"Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elixir

    A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life

    by Theresa Levitt ...
    A Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite“[V]ividly evokes cultural life in Bohemian Paris, the turbulence of the French Revolution and its aftermath, and the feuds that plagued rival scientists…Levitt’s social history, especially of perfume, is fascinating.” —Wall Street Journal“A delightful history of science and scent at the dawn of the mode... ... Read more

    $25.89 CAD

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  • A Natural History of Revolution

    Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794

    by Mary Ashburn Miller ...
    How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Neanderthal Legacy

    An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe

    by Paul A. Mellars ...
    The Neanderthals populated western Europe from nearly 250,000 to 30,000 years ago when they disappeared from the archaeological record. In turn, populations of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens, came to dominate the area. Seeking to understand the nature of this replacement, which has become a hotly debated issue, Paul Mellars brings together an unprecedented amount of information on the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The Begum's Millions

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Stanford L. Luce ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. François Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD