Major Works: Bioscience

New and Published Books

1. Religion and Science

   Edited by Sara Fletcher Harding, Nancy Morvillo

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Integral to human nature is the need to seek understanding of the world in which we live, to discover how it works and why. We find our answers to these fundamental questions through different methods; empirical science justifies our observations of the natural world, but religion offers...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
2. Evolution and Human Behaviour

   An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

   By Alex Alland

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
3. Darwin and the Naked Lady

   Discursive Essays on Biology and Art

   By Alex Comfort

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
4. The Social Impact of Modern Biology

   By Fuller Watson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
5. Glimpsing Reality

   Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology

   By Paul & F David Buckley & Peat

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at...

   Published August 14th 2008 by Routledge
6. Continuous Creation

   A Biological Concept of the Nature of Matter

   By Wilfred Branfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter. Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, the author suggests that this knowledge may also be applied to the rest of matter. In that...

   Published August 14th 2008 by Routledge
7. Natural History Of Hidden Animals

   By Heuvelmans

   Published June 4th 2007 by Routledge
8. Plants Of The Bible

   By Moldenke

   Published March 22nd 2005 by Routledge
9. Scientific Travellers, 1789-1874

   Edited by David Knight

   This collection will bring together a selection of works by travellers studying natural philosophy as well as natural history. The set will cover a wide geographical spread, including accounts from Australia, Asia, Africa and South America. The style of writing and subject matter are also diverse....

   Published December 24th 2003 by Routledge
10. Scientific Travellers, 1789-1874

    Edited by David Knight

    This collection will bring together a selection of works by travellers studying natural philosophy as well as natural history. The set will cover a wide geographical spread, including accounts from Australia, Asia, Africa and South America. The style of writing and subject matter are also diverse....

    Published December 24th 2003 by Routledge