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  • POSSIBLE WORLDS
    J.B.S. HALDANE
    Haldane advanced genetics, population biology and evolutionary theory. This volume emphasizes important developments in natural sciences in the early-20th century. It describes Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist. ...

    $1,179.00

  • THE MARXIST PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENCES
    J. B. S. HALDANE
    This book, first published in 1938, is based upon the Muirhead lectures on political philosophy delivered in the University of Birmingham in January and February of 1938. This title was intended to be of interest to students and scientific workers in the belief that Marxism will prove valuable to them in their scientific work, as well as to a wider audience. ...

    $1,179.00

  • EVERYTHING HAS A HISTORY
    J. B. S. HALDANE
    In this collection, first published in 1951, the central theme is that everything has a history, and that we cannot fully understand anything without some knowledge of its history. Professor Haldane writes mainly on geology, astronomy and zoology, but includes a variety of other topics, including eugenics, Einstein, and C. S. Lewis. His outlines of zoology, of the geology of En...

    $479.00

  • HEREDITY AND POLITICS
    J. B. S. HALDANE
    This book, first published in 1938, is based on the Muirhead Lectures given at Birmingham University in February and March of 1937. The first half of this book is mainly devoted to an exposition of the principles of genetics, whilst the second half deals with more controversial topics, with the text providing an insight into the ideology of the time. This title will be of inter...

    $439.00

  • SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
    JAMES JEANS / WILLIAM BRAGG / E.V. APPLETON / E. MELLANBY / J.B.S. HALDANE / JULIAN S. HUXLEY
    First published in 1936, this volume contains six of the Halley Stewart Lectures – originally founded "For Research towards the Christian Ideal in All Social Life" – by some of the greatest of English scientists of the mid-20th century, each a leading authority in his respective field: cosmology, physics, meteorology, medicine and genetics. The final lecture considers the relat...

    $1,179.00

  • SCIENCE ADVANCES
    J.B.S. HALDANE
    This book offers an overview of a huge range of scientific achievements in the 20th century, specifically in the field of applied science. The majority of the essays originally appeared in papers and journals such as the Daily Worker, New Statesman and Nation, Science and Society and Nature. Insofar as one theme runs through them, it is the application of scientific knowledge f...

    $1,139.00

  • POSSIBLE WORLDS
    J.B.S. HALDANE
    Haldane advanced genetics, population biology and evolutionary theory. This volume emphasizes important developments in natural sciences in the early-20th century. It describes Haldane's views on society, art, religion and economy as seen through the eyes of a politically alert major scientist. ...

    $1,139.00