American Classics Evolutionary Perspectives by Saunders, Judith

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The tallgrass prairie reader /

Table of Contents: “…Van Tramp -- America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman -- A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer -- My uncle's farm / Mark Twain -- A runaway / Francis La Flesche -- The passing of the prairies / William J. …”
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In the catskills and my boyhood / by Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

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The tallgrass prairie reader /

Table of Contents: “…Van Tramp -- America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman -- A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer -- My uncle's farm / Mark Twain -- A runaway / Francis La Flesche -- The passing of the prairies / William J. …”
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Relatively and philosophically earnest : festschrift in honor of Paul Ernest's 65th birthday /

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The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics /

Table of Contents: “…Part 4: Ways Of Science -- Scientists' lives and works -- Albert Einstein / John Archibald Wheeler -- Autobiographical notes / Albert Einstein -- Tribute to Max Planck / Albert Einstein -- Rutherford / C P Snow -- Dirac / Jagdish Mehra -- Hilbert / Paul A M Dirac -- Quest for order / John Tierney -- Legend of John von Neumann / P R Halmos -- On the beach / Andrew Hodges -- Ramanujan and Pi / Jonathan M Borwein and Peter B Borwein -- Paul Erdos: mathematician / Lee Dembart -- Man of science-Abdus Salam / Nigel Calder -- Two shakers of physics: memorial lecture for Sin-itiro Tomonaga / Julian Schwinger -- Robert Wilson and the building of Fermilab / Philip J Hilts -- Los Alamos / Stanislaw M Ulam -- Coming into my own / Luis W Alvarez -- Two cultures / C P Snow -- Women in science / Vivian Gornick -- Iron / Primo Levi -- Poetry of science -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- I am like a slip of comet / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Arcturus / Emily Dickinson -- Star-swirls / Robinson Jeffers -- Galaxy / Richard Ryan -- Molecular evolution / James Clerk Maxwell -- Atomic architecture / A M Sullivan -- Seeing things / Howard Nemerov -- Cosmic gall / John Updike -- Nomad / Anthony Piccione -- Little cosmic dust poem / John Haines -- Connoisseur of chaos / Wallace Stevens -- Kings of the world / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Windy planet / Annie Dillard -- Space shuttle / Diane Ackerman -- Epistemology / Richard Wilbur -- What science says to truth / William Watson -- from An essay on man / Alexander Pope -- True enough: to the physicist / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- About Planck time / George Bradley -- Observatory ode / John Frederick Nims -- Philosophy and science -- Nature of science / Isaac Asimov -- Art of discovery / Horace Freeland Judson -- Structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S Kuhn -- Logic of scientific discovery / Karl Popper -- Causality and complementarity / Niels Bohr -- from Letters to Max Born / Albert Einstein -- Black magic and white magic / Jacob Bronowski -- Positivism, metaphysics, and religion / Werner Heisenberg -- Science and religion / Albert Einstein -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”

What about Darwin? : all species of opinion from scientists, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discussed the naturalist who changed the world / by Glick, Thomas F.

Table of Contents: “…Wells -- American novelist / Edith Wharton -- English philosopher and polymath / William Whewell -- American educator / Andrew Dickson White -- English mathematician and philosopher / Alfred North Whitehead -- American poet / Walt Whitman -- American geologist / Josiah Dwight Whitney -- American linguist / William Dwight Whitney -- German botanist / Julius von Wiesner -- German botanist (see Du Bois-Reymond and Wigand) / Albert Wigand -- English bishop / Samuel Wilberforce -- English author / Oscar Wilde -- American president / Woodrow Wilson -- American geologist and paleontologist / Alexander Winchell -- English prelate / Nicholas Patrick Wiseman -- Austrian-English philosopher / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- English entomologist / Thomas Vernon Wollaston -- English author / Virginia Woolf -- American philosopher / Chauncey Wright.…”
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