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Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
by Larson, Edward J
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0195036662
- ISBN 13
- 9780195036664
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About This Item
New York, Oxford University Press, 1985, hardcover, vi-222 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, small dampstain to heel of spine extending to endpapers not affecting text. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight spine-end bumps, tiny nicks to rear panel, faint evidence of dampstain to heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. Larson shows how public attitudes toward the teaching of evolution in public schools have changed little since the 1920s and why legislators and the judiciary have more often sided with prevailing public sentiment and avoided ruling on the scientific merits of either side. Appended: Conclusion, Appendix containing bibliographic data for multiple-edition, high-school, life-science textbooks published between 1959 and 1920 and contained in the Library of Congress, Notes, Bibliographic Note, Index. ISBN 9780195036664
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8420
- Title
- Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
- Author
- Larson, Edward J
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195036662
- ISBN 13
- 9780195036664
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Usa
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 20th Century; Creationism; History; Law; Law and legislation; Legal History; Science; Study and teaching; United States
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