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  • Louis Pasteur
    Albert Keim / Louis Lumet / Frederic Taber Cooper
    The celebrated French biologist Louis Pasteur was a scientific pioneer; his discoveries and advances led to treatments which saved countless lives.This biography takes us from Pasteur’s formative years as a curious and bright child, to the first glimmers of promise he showed through school. His keen understanding of scientific principles, and a drive to enquire, experiment and ...
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    7,21 €

  • Florence Nightingale
    Laura E. Richards / Laura ERichards
    This biography of Florence Nightingale is intended for younger readers eager to understand her immense contributions to the nursing profession.Published in 1911, the year following the death of the celebrated nurse – whom this book calls ‘The Angel of the Crimea’ – we discover much about Florence’s life, motivations and accomplishments. This book focuses on the practices she pu...
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    9,85 €

  • William Crawford Gorgas
    Burton J. Hendrick / Marie D. Gorgas
    [William Gorgas’s work is] 'the greatest sanitary achievement the world has seen...I doubt if we shall ever see as great again... It is perfect work and its organization is the only kind that would have succeeded under the circumstances.' -Dr. Malcolm Watson, Report to Royal Colonial Institute, (1914)William Crawford Gorgas (1924) is a collaboration between the highly regarded ...
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    32,41 €

  • Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell
    Maria Mitchell was among the first female astronomers. This is her story in her own words, compiled from letters and diary entries as she toured academies to deliver her scientific lectures.Born in Massachusetts in 1818, Maria demonstrated an affinity for astronomy and science from a young age. At the time it was almost impossible for a woman to gain a formal education in scien...
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    12,20 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I
    Charles Darwin
    'In the selection and arrangement of the material he [Francis Darwin] was chiefly guided by a wish to portray his father’s personal character, and he succeeded...in giving a true picture of the man and the student, the methods of Darwin’s work and the gradual development of his opinions.' -The Times (1925)The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I (1896) is a compilation...
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    29,04 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    29,03 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Two Volumes in One
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    57,31 €

  • The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Two Volumes in One
    Charles Darwin
    'If we choose to let conjecture run wild, then animals, our fellow brethren in pain, disease, death, suffering and famine-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake from our origin in one common ancestor-we may be all melted together.' -Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II (1896)The Life and Letters of ...
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    72,10 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    8,43 €

  • Walden (Chump Change Edition)
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Wald...
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    18,84 €

  • Walking
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee a...
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    6,35 €

  • Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonviolent...
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    6,42 €

  • Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Natural philosopher and rugged poet Henry David Thoreau has inspired many generations through Thoreau’s popular essays included here: Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, and Life without Principle. Cited by both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as influential in their drive to create positive change through nonviolent...
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    16,50 €


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