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Edward J. Larson

Edward J. Larson
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Edward J. Larson

Edward J. Larson is the author of seven books and the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. His other books include Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory; Evolution's Workshop; God and Science on the Galapagos Islands; and Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. Larson has also written over one hundred articles, most of which address topics of law, science, or politics from an historical perspective, which have appeared in such varied journals as The Atlantic, Nature, Scientific American, The Nation,... Read full bio

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New York Times, January 16, 2012
...they made time for hockey, notwithstanding the unstinted generosity with which bruised shins and black-eyes have been bestowed. Edward J. Larson, a professor at Pepperdine University and the author of the recent book An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton...
Asheville Citizen-Times, November 23, 2011
...Mention.  An Empire of Ice:  Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science.  By Edward J. Larson.  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  Nature Guidebooks.  Winner.  Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide through the Fields,...
Asheville Citizen-Times, November 23, 2011
...Mention.  An Empire of Ice:  Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science.  By Edward J. Larson.  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  Nature Guidebooks.  Winner.  Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide through the Fields,...
Asheville Citizen-Times, November 22, 2011
...Mention.  An Empire of Ice:  Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science.  By Edward J. Larson.  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  Nature Guidebooks.  Winner.  Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide through the Fields,...
Asheville Citizen-Times, November 22, 2011
...Mention.  An Empire of Ice:  Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science.  By Edward J. Larson.  Yale University Press.  New Haven.  Nature Guidebooks.  Winner.  Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide through the Fields,...
New Scientist, June 29, 2011
...and Art Topic Guide In An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the heroic age of Antarctic science, Edward Larson explores the science and politics that inspired the pioneers JUST over a century ago, a group of explorers set out from Britain on a...
ArticlesBase, May 24, 2011
...72) In brief, Larson explains, Darrow was a lawyer to begin with, not a scientist. By the exact token, William Jennings Bryan is nowadays witnessed as an uncompromising, blind follower of Biblical literalism. In contrast to rational-minded Clarence...
American Consumer News, July 12, 2011
...enterprises in which reaching the South Pole was but a spectacular sideshow. By focusing on the larger purpose, Edward Larson deepens our appreciation of the explorers’ achievements, shares little-known stories, and shows what the Heroic Age of...
PrawfsBlawg, June 3, 2011
...Ages of American Law (1979) (Yale University Press). Legal Nonfiction Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (1996) (Vintage Books). Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (2006) (Basic...
Ad Fontes, May 18, 2011
...them. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion / Edward Larson The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement / David Brooks Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were...