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A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector of thousands of species new to science, he shared in the discovery of natural selection and founded the discipline of evolutionary biogeography. Radical by Nature tells the story of Wallace’s epic life and achievements, from his stellar rise from humble origins to his complicated friendship with Charles Darwin and other leading scientific lights of Britain to his devotion to social causes and movem...
The Detroit News commemorates the unlikely championship in the action-packed book, Detroit Pistons: Champions at Work. Honoring the team's "blue-collar" work ethic with stories from the award-winning Detroit News sports staff, along with full-color Detroit News photos, it is certain to provide fans with a great way to remember a truly special season. The book also features profiles of the Pistons' biggest stars.
A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
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