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Evolution on British Television and Radio

Author : Alexander Hall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-30
ISBN : 3030830438
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (83 Download)

Download PDF Evolution on British Television and Radio Book by Alexander Hall Full eBook and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the history of how biological evolution has been depicted on British television and radio, from the first radio broadcast on evolution in 1925 through to the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species in 2009. Going beyond science documentaries, the chapters deal with a broad range of broadcasting content to explore evolutionary themes in radio dramas, educational content, and science fiction shows like Doctor Who. The book makes the case that the dominant use in science broadcasting of the ‘evolutionary epic’, a narrative based on a progressive vision of scientific endeavour, is part of the wider development of a standardised way of speaking about science in society during the 20th century. In covering the diverse range of approaches to depicting evolution used in British productions, the book demonstrates how their success had a global influence on the genres and formats of science broadcasting used today.

Reflecting on Darwin

Author : Eckart Voigts
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
ISBN : 1317069676
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (69 Download)

Download PDF Reflecting on Darwin Book by Eckart Voigts Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, Reflecting on Darwin poses the following questions: 'How are the apparatuses in the mid-nineteenth century and at the turn of the twenty-first century interconnected with bio-scientific paradigms in art, literature, culture and science?' 'How are naturalism, determinism and Darwinism - the eugenics of the nineteenth century and the genetic coding of the twentieth century - positioned, embodied and staged in various media configurations and media genres?' and 'How have particular media apparatuses formed, displaced or stabilized the various concepts of humankind in the framework of evolutionary theory?' Ranging from the early circulation of Darwin’s ideas to the present, this interdisciplinary collection pays particular attention to Darwin’s postmillennial reception. Beginning with an overview of the historical development of contemporary ecological and ethical fears, Reflecting on Darwin then turns to Darwin’s influence on contemporary media, neo-Victorian literature and culture, science fiction literature and film, and contemporary theory. In examining the plurality of ways in which Darwin has been rewritten and reappropriated, this unique volume both mirrors and inspects the complexity of recent debates in Victorian and neo-Victorian studies.

Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2021-07-31
ISBN : 1440866171
Pages : 766 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (866 Download)

Download PDF Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes] Book by Gary Westfahl Full eBook and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides high school and undergraduate students, and other interested readers, with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field. Provides readers with information about written science fiction in all its forms—novels, stories, plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels Includes original interviews with major writers like Ted Chiang, Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Connie Willis that are not available elsewhere Features numerous sidebars with additional data about various subjects and key passages from several classic works Includes hundreds of bibliographies of sources that provide additional information on various specific topics and the genre of science fiction as a whole

Darwin's Radio

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2003-03-04
ISBN : 0345464923
Pages : 450 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (464 Download)

Download PDF Darwin's Radio Book by Greg Bear Full eBook and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-03-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “WOW! What a splendid (scary) notion: a human upgrade! What a superb plot! Darwin's Radio is bloody damned good.”—Anne McCaffrey “Virus hunter” Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he’s looking for, the answer proves to be stranger—and far deadlier—than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions of years is waking up. Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has spent her career tracing ancient retroviruses in the human genome. She believes these microscopic fossils can come to life again. But when Dicken’s discovery becomes public, Lang’s theory suddenly turns to chilling fact. As the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve—an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all. Praise for Darwin’s Radio “Bear is one of our very best, and most innovative, speculative writers.”—New York Daily News “Superb . . . Bear's novel is frighteningly believable with a lot of clearly explained hard science, but the personal struggles of the well-realized characters keep everything on a human level.”—Focus “Bear is a writer of passionate vision.”—Locus “Darwin’s Radio scores a high rating on the thrill monitor.”—Birmingham Post (England) “Absorbing and ingenious.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Power of Words (2)

Author : Stilovsky
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2020-02-24
ISBN : 1728399041
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (399 Download)

Download PDF The Power of Words (2) Book by Stilovsky Full eBook and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature of all kinds plays such an important place in our lives whether it’s biography, classics, crime or poetry. In this non-fiction volume you will find a mine of facts which will fascinate all who love books. Felix Schrödinger and Pyotr Stilovsky have compiled in this, the fifth volume of the series, a compendium of information that will appeal to all who love language and especially those who seek out knowledge for its own sake.

The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells

Author : Michael R. Page
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-09
ISBN : 131702527X
Pages : 232 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (25 Download)

Download PDF The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells Book by Michael R. Page Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.

Darwin in der Stadt Die rasante Evolution der Tiere im Großstadtdschungel

Author : Menno Schilthuizen
Publisher : Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Release Date : 2018-11-30
ISBN : 3423434457
Pages : 1062 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (434 Download)

Download PDF Darwin in der Stadt Die rasante Evolution der Tiere im Großstadtdschungel Book by Menno Schilthuizen Full eBook and published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echtzeitevolution: ein neuer Blick auf das geheime Leben der Städte Amseln sind größer, dicker und lauter als ihre Artgenossen draußen im Wald und haben jede Scheu vor Menschen, Hunden und Katzen verloren. Regenwürmer kommen bestens zurecht in verdreckter Innenstadterde. Motten fliegen nicht mehr ins Licht. Gras gedeiht prächtig auf zinkdurchsetztem Boden. Und Kojoten warten an Ampeln. Tiere legen ererbte Verhaltensweisen ab. Man kann Evolution in Echtzeit beobachten, und das mitten in der Stadt. Das ist das große Wunder, das in diesem Buch gewürdigt wird.

Darwin’s Children

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2013-04-11
ISBN : 0007372809
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (372 Download)

Download PDF Darwin’s Children Book by Greg Bear Full eBook and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution is no longer just a theory – and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother – in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin’s Radio

Brain Gain

Author : Marc Prensky
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-08-07
ISBN : 113709317X
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (93 Download)

Download PDF Brain Gain Book by Marc Prensky Full eBook and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an age where the answer to every question is at your fingertips, where does the human brain fit in?" In one hand-held object, we are able to manage all of our calendars, documents, and interpersonal relationships with such ease that many people are lost when forced to do perform these tasks without the aid of electronics. Often heard are the calls for less technology and more face-to-face interaction, for fear that the use of all this artificial intelligence is dampening our own ability to think. Author Marc Prensky has a different idea. In this controversial and well-argued treatise, Prensky offers the idea that rather than stunting the mind—that most essential aspect of an individual's intelligence and sense of self—smart technology (and smart use of technology) enhances our humanity in ways that the brain on its own never could. Through scores of fascinating examples, Prensky shows that the symbiotic combination of the human brain and technology—from marrying the brain's strengths such as sense-making and complex reasoning abilities with technology's strengths like storing and processing large amounts of data—has great benefits for our own cognitive functioning. How should we best combine the strengths of mind and machine for maximum benefit? Prensky's call is for digital wisdom—a new interconnectedness between human and technology that is already enabling Homo Sapiens to begin the journey into the next stages of cognitive evolution.

Bodily Natures

Author : Stacy Alaimo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-25
ISBN : 0253004837
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (4 Download)

Download PDF Bodily Natures Book by Stacy Alaimo Full eBook and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2002

Author : B. Turner
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-29
ISBN : 0230271308
Pages : 2096 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (271 Download)

Download PDF The Statesman's Yearbook 2002 Book by B. Turner Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 2096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last 138 years, The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The appointment of the new editor - only the seventh in 138 years - brought enhancements to the 1998-99 edition and these have been continued since then. Internet usage figures are included. Specially commissioned essays from major political and academic figures supplement country entries in areas of major upheaval and change. A fold out colour section provides a political world map and flags for the 191 countries of the world. The task of monitoring the pattern or flow of world change is never-ending. However, the annual publication of The Statesman's Yearbook gives all the information needed in one easily digestible single volume. It will save hours of research and cross-referencing between different sources. A prestigious and popular book, The Statesman's Yearbook is updated every 12 months. In a world of continual change The Statesman's Yearbook is a necessary annual purchase.

Science Fact and Science Fiction

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-06
ISBN : 1135923744
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (923 Download)

Download PDF Science Fact and Science Fiction Book by Brian Stableford Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.

The Statesman's Year-Book 1997-8

Author : B. Hunter
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-28
ISBN : 023027126X
Pages : 1760 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (271 Download)

Download PDF The Statesman's Year-Book 1997-8 Book by B. Hunter Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely respected as an authoritative and accessible reference work. The Statesman's Year-Book provides up-to-date world facts about every country in the world - constitution and government, international relations, industry, agriculture, trade and social issues. Known as a 'people, events and statistics' work, this year's edition includes accounts of the latest development in trouble-spots such as Israel and Northern Ireland, and records all recent election results.

Sequels

Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Release Date : 2009-07-30
ISBN : 0838909671
Pages : 793 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (99 Download)

Download PDF Sequels Book by Janet G. Husband Full eBook and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Under the Literary Microscope

Author : Sina Farzin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-05-03
ISBN : 0271090111
Pages : 136 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (9 Download)

Download PDF Under the Literary Microscope Book by Sina Farzin Full eBook and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space. Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science. Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.

Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?

Author : Seo-Young Chu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
ISBN : 0674059220
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (59 Download)

Download PDF Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? Book by Seo-Young Chu Full eBook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.

Darwin in the Genome

Author : Lynn Helena Caporale
Publisher : Darwin in the Genome
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 0071378227
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (378 Download)

Download PDF Darwin in the Genome Book by Lynn Helena Caporale Full eBook and published by Darwin in the Genome. This book was released on 2003 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart genomes--an enthralling account of revolutionary discoveries at the cutting edge of genomics research Written by a molecular biologist at the forefront of genomics research, Darwin in the Genome is an exciting account of one of the hottest new theories in biology today: evolution by natural selection inevitably leads to strategic mutations. In the struggle for survival, from pathogens to flowers, birds to orangutans, baker's yeast to people, the fittest genomes are those that evolve effective molecular strategies that respond to, and in fact anticipate, challenges and opportunities in their environments. Writing in a clear, accessible style, Lynn Caporale describes the emergence of genomic mutation strategies, which researchers are just beginning to uncover. She also spells out some of the more profound implications of these findings, including the importance of biodiversity, indeed human diversity, for survival, the possibility of bold new directions for medical research, and the inherent dangers of attempting to fix perceived "errors" in a human genome.