This thoroughly absorbing book on taxonomy captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing. As
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In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like
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As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature
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At the Mermaid Inn, one of the most notable literary endeavours in Canada, was the result of the combined efforts of thr
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Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia’s wonderfully unique mammals—and how our perceptions
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How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the livelies
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Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged
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This volume, the Frank Gerstein Lectures for 1963, is the second series of Invitation Lectures to be delivered at York U
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