Charles Darwin: Voyaging - Volume 1 of a biography (Browne Janet)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Darwin: Voyaging - Volume 1 of a biography (Browne Janet)(Paperback / softback)

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging,

Scientists Who Made History: Charles Darwin (Senker Cath)(Paperback / softback)

Biography of Charles Darwin, looking at the impact of his theory of evolution on the

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Volume 2 (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

This book, the second of three-volumes detailing the life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father's collaborator in experiments in botany and who after his death took on the responsibility of overseeing the publication of his

Darwin (Desmond Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about

On the Origin of the Species (Charles Darwin)(Paperback / softback)

Agatha Christie - A Biography (Morgan Janet)(Paperback / softback)

Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the

Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone (Moore Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 18: The Misadventures of Charles Darwin (Thomas Isabel)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating biography of one of the world's greatest scientists and his mishaps and mistakes!TreeTops inFact is an exciting non-fiction series for children aged 711. Its range of subjects and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will

Charles Darwin (Croy Anita)(Paperback / softback)

Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants (Moore Charles)(Paperback / softback)

On the Origin of Species (Darwin Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published. Written for a general readership, On the Origin of Species sold out on the day of its publication and has remained in print ever since

Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here

Tchaikovsky - The Man and his Music (Brown Prof. David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the lesser known

The Origin of Species: (patterns of Life) (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

Discover this beautiful special edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking theory on human evolution. When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence that would form the basis of a world-changing

Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes (Malcolm Janet)(Paperback / softback)

Janet Malcolm's revelatory biography of the tumultuous union of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and the critical battle that overshadows their

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

Charles Darwin's Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin's family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all the passages they considered too personal or controversial. The present complete edition did not

Margaret Thatcher - The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning (Moore Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. This title gives unparalleled insight into her early life, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, and recreates brilliantly the

Autobiographies (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

A glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual giants The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind and experiences of one of the world's intellectual giants. They begin with engaging memories of his childhood and youth and of his burgeoning

Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Demonstrates that theory of evolution by natural selection discovered by Charles Darwin - is only answer to biggest question of all: why do we

The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin Charles)(Paperback)

When naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory sparked a fierce scientific, religious and

Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Darwin Charles)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive edition of Darwin's classic - a brilliantly entertaining and accessible exploration of human and animal behaviour, reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's

Churchill (Jackson Ashley)(Paperback / softback)

Accessible and incisive new one-volume biography of Winston

On Natural Selection (Darwin Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we

Charles Kennedy - A Tragic Flaw (Hurst Greg)(Paperback / softback)

This biography is a frank account of Charles Kennedy's political career that began in triumph and ended in