Spydus Search Results - Subject: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 (Keywords)

Darwin's super-pooping worm spectacular / Polly Owen, Gwen Millward.

Learn the funny and fascinating story of Charles Darwin and the groundbreaking discoveries his love of the humble worms led to in this hilarious interactive illustrated book.
Author: Owen, Polly (Children's author)
Published: London : Wide Eyed Editions, 2023.
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Childrens Non Fiction - 592.64 - Available - 30111069495470
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Evolution : how we came to be / Ben Martynoga ; illustrated by Moose Allain.

In an approachable, compelling way, this work celebrates the ground-breaking work of Charles Darwin and other thinkers who inspired his work. It also includes those who have developed his discoveries into today's cutting-edge science.
Author: Martynoga, Ben
Published: Oxford : David Fickling Books, 2023.
173 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Explodapedia

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Childrens Non Fiction - 576.8 - Available - 30111069593373
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Darwin's tree of life / Michael Bright, Margaux Carpentier.

Follow the evolution of plants and animals, from the first living things 6 billion years ago to the animals living in the world today. 'Darwin's Tree of Life' shows how the incredible diversity of life on earth came to be. It starts from the dawn of life and shows the order in which plants and animals evolved, the different branches of 'the tree of life', and how plants and animals have changed over time in many amazingly different ways.
Author: Bright, Michael
Published: London : Wayland, 2019.
48 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 30 cm

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Childrens Non Fiction - J 576.82 - Available - 30111068954535
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One hot summer : Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 / Rosemary Ashton.

While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognised, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three main protagonists - Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. She also introduces others who gained renown in the headlines of the day, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx, William Thackeray, and Bulwer Lytton.
Author: Ashton, Rosemary, 1947-
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Published: ©2017
viii, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - LON 942.1081 - Available - 30111044621513

Charles Darwin / Sarah Ridley.

'Charles Darwin' tells the story of this key scientific figure, covering his origins as the son of a wealthy doctor, to his famous voyage on HMS Beagle, the development of his evolutionary theories and the publication of 'On the Origin of Species' to his death and burial in Westminster Abbey.
Author: Ridley, Sarah, 1963-
Published: London : Franklin Watts, 2014.
24 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Super scientists

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Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Childrens Non Fiction - 576.82092 - Available - 30111067960780

Charles Darwin / Nick Hunter.

Each book in this series traces the life of a famous scientist or inventor, from their childhood and education through their sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the discoveries or inventions for which they are best known.
Author: Hunter, Nick
Published: London : Raintree, 2014.
32 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm.
Science biographies
Raintree perspectives

St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Childrens Non Fiction - 920 - Available - 30111067915818
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Money, blood and revolution : how Darwin and the doctor of King Charles I could turn economics into a science / George Cooper.

Economics is a broken science, living in a kind of Alice in Wonderland state believing in multiple, inconsistent, things at the same time. Prior to the financial crisis, mainstream economics argued simultaneously for small government on taxation, regulation and spending, but big government on monetary policy. After the financial crisis, economics is now arguing for more government spending and for less government spending. The premise of this book is that the internal inconsistencies between economic theories - the apparently unresolvable debates between leading economists and the incoherent policies of our governments - are symptomatic of economics being in a crisis. Specifically, in a scientific crisis.
Author: Cooper, George
Published: Petersfield, Hampshire : Harriman House, 2014.
xvii, 204 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 330.09 - Available - 30111067589811

The evolution of inanimate objects : the life and collected works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879) / a novel by Harry Karlinsky.

While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could Thomas Darwin be a relative of Charles Darwin? The emerging narrative tells of Thomas's obsession with extending his father's studies into the realm of inanimate objects.
Author: Karlinsky, Harry, 1954-
Published: London : The Friday Project, 2013.
232 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - GEN - In-transit from Kilburn Library to Swiss Cottage Library (Set: 11 Jun 2021) - 30111067298900

The political gene : how Darwin's ideas changed politics / Dennis Sewell.

This volume examines how scientists and politicians have sought to use Darwin's ideas to solve social problems or to bolster political ideologies. Sewell follows the thread of theory and the historical footprints left by a myriad cast of key characters to tell an often shocking and sometimes heartbreaking story.
Author: Sewell, Dennis
Published: London : Picador, 2010.
xvi, 268 p. ; 20 cm.

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 303.4 - Available - 30111045219754

Darwin's sacred cause : race, slavery and the quest for human origins / Adrian Desmond and James Moore.

By examining Darwin's manuscripts and correspondence (published and unpublished) and covert notebooks, the author put forward the argument that Darwin's hatred of slavery shaped his ideas and laid the foundations for his revolutionary ideas.
Author: Desmond, Adrian J., 1947-
Published: London : Allen Lane, 2009.
xxi, 484 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82092 - Available - 30111045077491

The rough guide to evolution / Mark Pallen.

Have you ever wondered what Charles Darwin would have had on his iPod? Or exactly how Cartman from South Park fits into the Theory of Evolution? 'The Rough Guide to Evolution' delves into all of this and more, from the life and works of the eminent scientist to the impact of evolutionary thinking on modern times.
Author: Pallen, Mark J.
Published: London : Rough Guides, 2009.
vi, 346 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.8 - Available - 30111045072534

Darwin : a life in poems / Ruth Padel.

In this new sequence of poems using multiple viewpoints, Ruth Padel follows not only the development of the great scientists professional thought, and the drama of the discovery of evolution, but also imagines the fluctuating emotions within Darwin, the private man and tender father.
Author: Padel, Ruth, 1946-
Published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2009.
xviii, 141 p. ; 22 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 821.914 - Available - 30111045171179

Darwin : a life in science / Michael White and John Gribbin.

In this book the authors offer a fascinating and populist account, both of Darwin's own evolution towards his famous theories and his far from contented life, plagued by illness, tragedy and the loneliness of being a man far ahead of his time.
Author: White, Michael, 1959-
Published: London : Pocket, 2009.
ix, 322 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82092 - Available - 30111045080941

The young Charles Darwin / Keith Thomson.

Thomson's book is the first to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal education that shaped Charles Darwin and prepared him for his remarkable career of scientific achievement.
Author: Thomson, Keith Stewart
Published: New Haven, [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2009.
xii, 276 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.8092 - Available - 30111045090221

Darwin's armada / Iain McCalman.

'Darwin's Armada' tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the 19th century in search of adventure and scientific fame.
Author: McCalman, Iain
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2009.
422 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82092241 - Available - 30111045091922

Darwin's Origin of species : a biography / Janet Browne.

On first publication in 1859, 'Origin of Species' became a bestseller. Darwin's idea that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection overturned the belief that all animals were born out of nothing. This guide examines the theory that changed the way we see the world and our place in it.
Author: Browne, E. J. (E. Janet), 1950-
Published: London : Atlantic, 2007.
x, 174 p. ; 20 cm.
Books that shook the world

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82 - Available - 30111042769801

Introducing Darwin and evolution / Jonathan Miller, Borin Van Loon ; edited by Richard Appignanesi.

In this guide, Jonathan Miller unravels Darwin's life and contribution to biology, and traces the path from his scientific predecessors to the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories required.
Author: Miller, Jonathan, 1934-
Published: Thriplow : Icon, 2006.
174 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.8092 - Available - 30111044366515

Darwin's Origin of species : a biography / Janet Browne.

On first publication in 1859, 'Origin of Species' became a bestseller. Darwin's idea that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection overturned the belief that all animals were born out of nothing. This guide examines the theory that changed the way we see the world and our place in it.
Author: Browne, E. J. (E. Janet), 1950-
Published: London : Atlantic, 2006.
x, 174 p. ; 21 cm.
Books that shook the world

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82 - Available - 30111042022532
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The autobiography of Charles Darwin / Charles Darwin.

Everyone has heard of Darwinism, but few are familiar with Darwin the Man. Here we have the story of his life as told by the man himself. This gentle self-portrait provides an insight into the beliefs and principles of the moral man whose theories on evolution shook the foundations of traditional religion.
Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Published: Cambridge : Icon, 2003.
192 p. ; 18 cm.

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - In-transit from Camden Town Library to Kentish Town Library (Set: 26 May 2022) - 30111040211608

Darwin and the barnacle / Rebecca Stott.

This is the story of a barnacle found in South America during Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. It tells of how genius sometimes proceeds through indirection - and how one small creature contributed to history's most spectacular scientific breakthrough.
Author: Stott, Rebecca
Published: London : Faber, 2003.
xxv, 309 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111039903405

Autobiographies / Charles Darwin ; edited by Michael Neve and Sharon Messenger with an introduction by Michael Neve.

Written by a genius about a genius, this autobiography's author and his subject do not always agree, for hindsight and the passage of time have their effect on what an old man thinks of his younger self.
Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Published: London : Penguin, 2002.
xxvi, 97 p. ; 20 cm.
Penguin classics

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Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111039391668

Fossils, finches and Fuegians : Charles Darwin's adventures and discoveries on the Beagle 1832-1836 / Richard Keynes.

A narrative account of Darwin's historic four-year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s, this biography examines the scientific research that occupied Darwin during the voyage.
Author: Keynes, Richard
Published: London : HarperCollins, 2002.
xix, 428 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 508.092 DARW - Available - 30111039350599

Charles Darwin / Janet Browne. Vol. 2, The power of place.

The second half of Darwin's life was inextricably interwoven with the story of 'The Origin of Species', and this biography looks closely at the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences which responded to his ideas.
Author: Browne, E. J. (E. Janet), 1950-
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2002.
591 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111039533897

Darwin / Jonathan Howard.

Arguments still rage about the implications of the evolutionary theory, and scepticism about Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread. This accessible study reasserts the importance of Darwin's work for the development of modern biology.
Author: Howard, Jonathan
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
[xiii], 125p. : ill., facsim., ports. ; 18 cm.
A very short introduction ; 35

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82092 DARW - Available - 30111038469127

Annie's box : Charles Darwin, his daughter and human evolution / Randal Keynes.

Randal Keynes, Darwin's great-great-grandson and the current guardian of Annie's box, conjures up a world in which great thinkers - including Carlyle, Babbage and George Eliot - were struggling with ideas that were to shake mankind to its core.
Author: Keynes, Randal
Published: London : Fourth Estate, 2001.
xiv, 331p., [32]p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 599.938 - Available - 30111038852322

Emma Darwin : the inspirational wife of a genius / Edna Healey.

This biography of the woman Charles Darwin referred to as twice refined gold details her life as the granddaughter of the famous Josiah Wedgewood and her life with, and influence on, her husband.
Author: Healey, Edna
Published: London : Headline, 2001.
[x], 372p., [16]p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, ports. ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111038763677

Introducing Darwin and evolution / Jonathan Miller and Borin Van Loon ; edited by Richard Appignanesi.

In this guide, Jonathan Miller unravels Darwin's life and contribution to biology, and traces the path from his scientific predecessors to the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories required.
Author: Miller, Jonathan, 1934-
Published: Trumpington : Icon, 2000.
174p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 576.82092 - Available - 30111041211680

The voyage of the Beagle : journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle round the world, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, RN / Charles Darwin ; with an introduction by David Amigoni.

This is Charles Darwin's journal of his five-year voyage at sea, which gave rise to the revelations set forth in 'The Origin of the Species'.
Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Published: Ware, Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions, 1997.
xiv, 480 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
Wordsworth classics of world literature

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 508.092 - Available - 30111068994747

Charles Darwin. Voyaging

Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography of Charles Darwin, provides a vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist.
Author: Browne, E. J. (E. Janet), 1950-
Published: London : Pimlico, 1996.
656p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111034992619

Darwin : a life in science / Michael White and John Gribbin.

In this book the authors offer a fascinating and populist account, both of Darwin's own evolution towards his famous theories and his far from contented life, plagued by illness, tragedy and the loneliness of being a man far ahead of his time.
Author: White, Michael, 1959-
Published: London : Simon & Schuster, 1995.
ix, 322p. : geneal. tables ; 24 cm.

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 DARW - Available - 30111042054634