Darnton, John.

Summary: Darnton blends fact and fiction to explore the life and work of Charles Darwin.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance 2005

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Cook, Diane.

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century English naturalist whose study trips, on which he documented the diversity of animal life, led him to develop theories about evolution and natural selection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest Publishers 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAR

Wilson, A. N.

Summary: A radical reappraisal of Darwin argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DARWIN, CHARLES WIL

Browne, E. J. (E. Janet)

Summary: Darwin's foremost biographer, historian Janet Browne, delivers an accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 BRO

Johnson, Paul

Summary: Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012

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Norman, Andrew

Summary: Looks at the life of Charles Darwin, and how the young man who liked to avoid controversy came to formulate one of the most controversial theories in history, with a focus on the years he spent developing his thinking on natural selection.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014

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Quammen, David

Summary: Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of "On the Origin of Species," in an account that offers insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books/Norton 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 QUA

Summary: This episode interweaves the drama in key moments of Darwin's life with documentary sequences of current research, linking past to present and introducing major concepts of evolutionary theory. It explores why Darwin's "dangerous idea" might matter even more today than it did in his own time, and reveals how science might be used to explain the past and predict the future of life on earth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2001

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Bayarri, Jordi

Summary: "Charles Darwin's scientific work transformed the way people think about life on Earth. From his childhood in England to his pivotal ocean voyages, he took every opportunity to study the natural world. And he helped shape a new understanding of how life forms change over time. This graphic biography highlights Darwin's youthful push to become a naturalist--against the wishes of his stern...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAR

Stott, Rebecca.

Summary: Tells the story of the collective discovery of evolution, arguing that the idea emerged over many centuries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.8 STO

Sís, Peter

Summary: Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DAR

Preston, Diana

Summary: "When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRE