Found 124,902 results for "Explorers"
De civitate Dei
by Augustine of Hippo
One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretat...
Philosophical essays concerning human understanding
by David Hume
MORAL philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its pecu...
Biology
by Neil Alexander Campbell
The flower featured on the cover of this book and in Figure 1.1 is from a magnolia, a tree of ancient lineage that is na...
The Tao of Physics
by Fritjof Capra
Modern physics has had a profound influence on almost all aspects of human society.
Guns, germs, and steel
by Jared M. Diamond
A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C...
La ciudad de las bestias
by Isabel Allende
Alexander Cold awakened at dawn, startled by a nightmare.
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
by Charles Darwin
After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the co...
Abnormal Psychology
by Gerald C. Davison, John M. Neale
1. Abnormality can be characterized in various ways.
Contact
by Carl Sagan
By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.
Cinq semaines en ballon
by Jules Verne
THERE was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No....
Longitude
by Dava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes
ONCE ON A WEDNESDAY excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.
The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)
by Jeanne DuPrau
In the city of Ember, the sky was always dark.
Art history
by Marilyn Stokstad, Margaret A. Oppenheimer
THE FIRST PEOPLE TO EXPLORE THE PAINTED CAVES OF FRANCE AND Spain entered an almost unimaginably ancient world.
The Birds of America
by John James Audubon
The results of a period of world exploration were consolidated in the late 17th and early 18th centuries when descriptio...