A plant's botanical name does more than give it a unique label. The name can often reveal where it originated, who discovered it, what shape it is, and more besides…

The vast majority of ornamental species don't have seeds or, when they do, they take a long time to produce. In this sense, vegetative multiplication not only preserves the genetic…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, a haunting family novel by'a daringly skillful writer.‘ (Philip Roth);;Foreword by Mary Gordon;;First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, The Countryfollows the last…

Pursuing a strategy of colonial expansion in the early 1600s, France encourages its citizens to leave their motherland and venture to the New World. They focus on the St. Lawrence…

The early 1940s weren’t easy years for America or the world at large. Jacob was just a young boy in New Hampshire when World War II broke out. His father…

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory problem of species variation to which Darwinian theory was a…