The Longest Voyage : Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery. by Silverberg, Robert

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The fertility doctor : John Rock and the reproductive revolution / by Marsh, Margaret S., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Family matters -- Choosing medicine, coming of age -- New discoveries in human reproduction -- Firing the first shot in the reproductive revolution -- The world of the patients -- The fertility doctor meets the pill -- The era of the pill begins -- The face and voice of the pill -- The pill falls from grace -- A true visionary.…”
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The species seekers : heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / by Conniff, Richard, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- Craniological longings -- "A fool to nature" -- The world turned upside down -- A primate named Savage -- "Species men" -- "Labourer in the field" -- The slow power of natural forces -- The gorilla war -- Big noses and short tea-drinkers -- Industrial-scale natural history -- "The blessing of a good skirt" -- The beast in the mosquito -- "Why not try the experiment?" -- The new age of discovery -- Necrology.…”

Beyond the Revolution : a history of American thought from Paine to pragmatism / by Goetzmann, William H.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Americans join the second great age of discovery -- I am "part or parcel of God" : the romantic search for the self -- The romantic writer as cosmopolitan seer -- pt. 4. …”

The voyage of thought : navigating knowledge across the sixteenth-century world / by Wintroub, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Ticou France et France TicouThe Captain and the Harbor Master; A Balanced Thought; Between Balance and Incommensurability; Tipping the Scales; 6 Replication: Replicating a Thought; The Scales of Death; Consultations; A Last Chance; A Poet's Lament and the Narrative Redemption of a Journey; The Death of a Poet; The Mapping of Silence; A Great Captain Speaks; Halting Replication; Drifting Names; The Discovery of the Age of Discovery, or New Uses for Old Names; Epilogue: Pirate Epistemologies; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Captain Cook : master of the seas / by McLynn, Frank

Captain Cook : master of the seas / by McLynn, Frank

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