ISBN10: 1396320636, ISBN13: 9781396320637, [publisher: Left of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2021]

Left of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd 11/25/2021 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life From the Amoeba to the Insects (Paperback or Softback)

ISBN10: 1396320636, ISBN13: 9781396320637, [publisher: Left of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd 11/25/2021] Softcover Life and Her Children: Glimpses of Animal Life From the Amoeba to the Insects 0.75
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2021]
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ISBN10: 1396320636, ISBN13: 9781396320637, [publisher: Left of Brain Onboarding Pty Ltd] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2021]

Paperback / softback. New. ISBN 1015433308 9781015433304 [GB]

Hansebooks 2017 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p.

Paperback / softback. New. ISBN 1015433308 9781015433304 [GB]

ISBN10: 3337215173, ISBN13: 9783337215170, [publisher: Hansebooks 2017-07] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, Date: 1885. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in her own right, lecturing, editing such prominent scientific treatises as Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1877) and Heinrich Leutemann's Animals from Life (1887), and writing imaginative introductory science books like this one. Buckley's signature educational style used fanciful metaphors and a whimsical writing style with the aim of evoking a sense of wonder at the marvels science reveals to the curious observer of nature. Buckley was a close friend of Darwin's, meeting through her employer and mentor Charles Lyell, who was crucial in bringing Darwin's theories to publication, and her understanding of the deeper meaning of evolution was many years ahead of the popularized concept. Here in Life and Her Children, as well as in its quasi-sequel Winners in Life's Race, she demonstrates her understanding of what Petr Kropotkin would later title "mutual aid"; she concludes Life and Her Children with this statement: "If at a future time we are able to trace out the history of the vertebrate animals, it will be our great interest to watch the rise of this higher feeling. Then we may perhaps learn that the 'struggle for ...

[publisher: D. Appleton and Company, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator in her own right, lecturing, editing such prominent scientific treatises as Mary Somerville's Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1877) and Heinrich Leutemann's Animals from Life (1887), and writing imaginative introductory science books like this one. Buckley's signature educational style used fanciful metaphors and a whimsical writing style with the aim of evoking a sense of wonder at the marvels science reveals to the curious observer of nature. Buckley was a close friend of Darwin's, meeting through her employer and mentor Charles Lyell, who was crucial in bringing Darwin's theories to publication, and her understanding of the deeper meaning of evolution was many years ahead of the popularized concept. Here in Life and Her Children, as well as in its quasi-sequel Winners in Life's Race, she demonstrates her understanding of what Petr Kropotkin would later title "mutual aid"; she concludes Life and Her Children with this statement: "If at a future time we are able to trace out the history of the vertebrate animals, it will be our great interest to watch the rise of this higher feeling. Then we ...
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Legare Street Press 2022 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 328 p.

ISBN10: 3337215173, ISBN13: 9783337215170, [publisher: hansebooks] Softcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]