Charles Darwin is vying with Immanuel Kant and Plato in a poll to decide on the most influential scholarly book of all time
Mary Wollstonecraft, Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin are jostling for the top spot on a line-up of the top 20 academic books that changed the world.
Put together by a panel of expert academic booksellers, librarians and publishers from a list of 200 titles submitted by UK publishers, the top 20 ranges from Wollstonecraft’s 1792 feminist manifesto A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to Hawking’s exploration of the universe, A Brief History of Time, and Darwin’s transformative laying out of his theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species.
The list has been unveiled in advance of Academic Book Week, which will run from 9-16 November, with members of the public now being asked to vote online for their choice of the most influential academic book of all time .
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Put together by a panel of expert academic booksellers, librarians and publishers from a list of 200 titles submitted by UK publishers, the top 20 ranges from Wollstonecraft’s 1792 feminist manifesto A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, to Hawking’s exploration of the universe, A Brief History of Time, and Darwin’s transformative laying out of his theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species.
The list has been unveiled in advance of Academic Book Week, which will run from 9-16 November, with members of the public now being asked to vote online for their choice of the most influential academic book of all time .
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