A portrait of H. B. D. Kettlewell debunks his work as the discoverer of "Darwin's missing evidence," profiling him as a deluded scientist who distorted and suppressed evidence who committed suicide after being tyrannized by his zealous mentor, E. B. Ford. 15,000 first printing.

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale

Science & Math

Hooper, Judith

Biological Sciences

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"An engrossing narrative" (Wall Street Journal) that does for evolutionary biology what The Double Helix did for DNA. In the 1950s, a British physician and amateur lepidopterist named H. B. D. Kettlewell went into the English woods to catch "evolution in action" among the now-famous Peppered Moths. His work became "Darwin's missing evidence," an evolutionary experiment as influential as any in the last century. Compellingly told, Of Moths and Men reveals Kettlewell to be a deluded scientist, a man tyrannized by his mentor, the powerful E. B. Ford, an imperious, eccentric Oxford don, a Darwinian zealot determined to crush all enemies in his path. In a revelatory, controversial work that will be debated for years to come, Judith Hooper uncovers the intellectual rivalries, petty jealousies, and faulty science behind one of the most famous experiments―and myths―in the history of evolutionary biology. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 8 pages of illustrations

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth

W.W.Norton&Company

Catalogs products and services specifically designed to expand and exercise the mind, from brain machines to new psychotherapies

Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?: A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness

Business & Money

Teresi, Dick

Economics

Fireside

Based on five years of research and interviews with 175 brain scientists, this book explains the latest discoveries in brain science

The Three Pound Universe

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Tarcher

Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper’s magnificent novel, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both sides of the Atlantic, but by the time we meet her in 1889, Alice has been sidelined and is lying in bed in Leamington, England, after taking London by storm. We don’t know what’s wrong with Alice. No one does, though her brothers have inventive theories, and the best of medical science offers no help. So, with Alice in bed, we travel to London and Paris, where the James children spent part of their unusual childhood. We sit with her around the James family’s dinner table, as she – the youngest and the only girl – listens to the intellectual elite of Boston, missing nothing. The book is accompanied by Hooper’s Afterword,“What was Wrong with Alice?,” an analysis of the varied psychological ills of the James family and Alice’s own medical history.

Alice in Bed: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Counterpoint

Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper’s magnificent novel, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping.And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both sides of the Atlantic, but by the time we meet her in 1889, Alice has been sidelined and is lying in bed in Leamington, England, after taking London by storm.We don’t know what’s wrong with Alice. No one does, though her brothers have inventive theories, and the best of medical science offers no help. Her legs no longer support her. She cannot travel home and so is separated from her beloved Katherine. She also suffers fits each day at noon sending her into swooning dreams in which she not so much remembers her life as relives it.So, with Alice in bed, we travel to London and Paris, where the James children spent part of their unusual childhood. We sit with her around the James family’s dinner table, as she  the youngest and the only girl  listens to the intellectual elite of Boston, missing nothing. We meet her mercurial father, given to visions of angels and firing each governess he hires for her in turn. The book is accompanied by Hooper’s Afterword,What was Wrong with Alice?,” an analysis of the varied psychological ills of the James family and Alice’s own medical history, untangled, as far as possible, from Victorian medical concepts and beliefs.

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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth

Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?: A Catalogue of Revolutionary Tools for Higher Consciousness

The Three Pound Universe

Alice in Bed: A Novel

Alice in Bed: A Novel