Jonathan Clements – лучшие книги

Kurzbeschreibung

Vom Außenseiter zum weltberühmten Wissenschaftler: Darwins Biografie - detailreich und differenziert

Seine Ideen und Forschungen prägen die Naturwissenschaft bis heute: Charles Darwin war einer der wichtigsten Naturforscher des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Diese Biografie gewährt einen sehr persönlichen Einblick in sein Leben: von seiner frühen Sammelleidenschaft, seinem Studium in Edinburgh und Cambridge über die Forschungsfahrt auf der HMS Beagle bis zu den Auswirkungen seiner Evolutionstheorie.

Aus Tagebucheinträgen und Notizen, privaten Aufzeichnungen und Publikationen setzt sich ein facettenreiches und lebhaftes Bild eines der faszinierendsten Naturforscher der Welt zusammen.

Reich illustrierte Biografie im Stil eines Notizbuchs mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Zeichnungen und Zitaten Darwins
Darwin im Kontext seiner Zeit: Welche Einflüsse prägten seine Arbeit? Wie reagierten die Zeitgenossen auf seine Theorien?
Darwins Lebenswerk und seine Bedeutung bis heute: »Der Ursprung der Arten«, »Die Abstammung des Menschen« und »Der Ausdruck von Gemütsbewegungen«
Vom Andersdenker zum Vordenker: Wie Darwins Ideen die Fundamente religiöser Doktrin in Frage stellten
Der Mensch hinter der Evolutionstheorie - Darwin, ganz persönlich

Schon zu Lebzeiten wurde Darwin oft missverstanden und falsch interpretiert. Er ist nicht, wie viele glauben, der Vater der Evolutionslehre. Die Vorstellung vom Artenwandel existierte bereits vor ihm. Darwins Verdienst ist die Erklärung für die Entstehung und die Veränderlichkeit der Arten. Seine »Theorie der natürlichen Selektion« versetze die Gelehrten seiner Zeit in Aufruhr und diente im 20. Jahrhundert als perverse Rechtfertigung für Verbrechen im Namen der Eugenik.

Darwins Theorien werden bis heute diskutiert, vereinnahmt und verfeinert. Er veränderte für alle Zeiten unsere Vorstellung davon, wer wir sind und woher wir kommen. Entdecken Sie mit dieser Biografie die schillernde Person hinter dem erfolgreichen Forscher Charles Robert Darwin!

Pressestimmen
»Insgesamt ist »Darwins Notizbuch« eine interessante, populärwissenschaftliche Biografie in relativ aufwändiger Aufmachung«. Spektrum.de

Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende

Der Brite Jonathan Clements ist multiversierter Autor und Drehbuchschreiber. Er hat zahlreiche Bücher geschrieben, darunter Biografien von Marco Polo und Konfuzius. Seine Themen reichen von der Geschichte der Seidenstraße bis zu den Wikingern. Bis jetzt wurden seine Werke in über ein Dutzend Sprachen übersetzt.

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic. But were they great seafarers or desperate outcasts, noble heathens or oafish pirates, the last pagans or the first of the modern Europeans? This concise study puts medieval chronicles, Norse sagas and Muslim accounts alongside more recent research into ritual magic, genetic profiling and climatology. It includes biographical sketches of some of the most famous Vikings, from Erik Bloodaxe to Saint Olaf, from King Canute to Leif the Lucky. Extending beyond the traditional ‘Viking age' of most books, A Brief History of the Vikings also places sudden Scandinavian population movements in a wider historical context. It presents a balanced appraisal of these infamous sea kings, explaining both their swift expansion and its supposed halt. Supposed because the Vikings never really went away. Instead, posits Clements, they became a part of who we are today.

The Doctor asks Klein about the events that brought them together, just before she left her Nazi ruled version of history.

Everyone's worried. Traditionally safe investments in savings, money-market accounts, CDs, and bonds just aren't paying off. Millions of Americans are flocking to mutual funds. Now, award-winning journalist Jonathan Clements clears a path through

Finland is often swept up in the general group of Nordic countries, little known and seldom gaining prominence on its own. But as Jonathan Clements shows in An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland, it has a long and fascinating history, one that offers oddities and excitements galore: from prehistoric herders to medieval lords, Christian martyrs and Viking kings, and the war heroes who held off the Soviet Union against long odds.

Clements travels the length of the country as he tells these stories, along the way offering accounts of Finland’s public artworks, literary giants, legends and folktales, and famous figures. The result is the perfect introduction to Finland for armchair and actual travelers alike.

The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire firearms. They encouraged believers to cast aside their earthly allegiances and swear loyalty to a foreign god-emperor, before seeking paradise in terrible martyrdoms.

The cult was in open revolt, led, it was said, by a boy sorcerer. Farmers claiming to have the blessing of an alien god had bested trained samurai in combat and proclaimed that fires in the sky would soon bring about the end of the world. The Shogun called old soldiers out of retirement for one last battle before peace could be declared in Japan. For there to be an end to war, he said, the Christians would have to die.

This is a true story.

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Darwin’s Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Charles Darwin’s life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.

By mining the rich sources of Darwin’s own journals and books, and incorporating a variety of quotations and illustrations, Darwin’s Notebook brings its subject to life more vividly than any ordinary biography. It reveals the man behind the theories and examines Darwin’s personal and family life as well as the amazing impact of his ideas and the world’s reaction to them.

What Words of Paradise did for Sufism and The Perfection of Wisdom for Buddhism, The Moon in the Pines does for Zen and the poetic form of haiku suffused with its spirit. In a spare three lines and seventeen syllables, the

What if...
the Doctor had not been UNIT's scientific advisor?

1997… and a lone exile arrives on Earth, years later than planned.

On the eve of the Handover, an advanced Chinese stealth bomber crashes in the hills above Hong Kong. The discredited UNIT has just 24 hours to steal the technology, rescue the passenger and flee to international waters.

Down by the harbour, there's big trouble in Little England - a bar owned by an old soldier, who simply wants to forget the past. But an ancient evil is stirring in a place of peace.

The Doctor finds a world on the brink of terror. A world that has lived without him for years. A world that is frighteningly like our own…