D. Graham Burnett

11 books

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century by D. Graham Burnett

The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

D. Graham Burnett

824 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
A Trial by Jury by D. Graham Burnett

A Trial by Jury

D. Graham Burnett

208 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction memoir true crime dark slow-paced
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

D. Graham Burnett

266 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Cabinet 56: Sports by

Cabinet 56: Sports

Cabinet #56

112 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century by D. Graham Burnett

Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest: Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century

D. Graham Burnett

152 pages • missing pub info (editions)

informative medium-paced
In Search of the Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2020 by D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E.H. Smith

In Search of the Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER), 2001–2020

D. Graham Burnett, Catherine L. Hansen, Justin E.H. Smith

768 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction art essays history philosophy
Lost Souls by Lucy Sante, D. Graham Burnett, Graham Burnett, Lena Herzog

Lost Souls

Lucy Sante, D. Graham Burnett, Graham Burnett, Lena Herzog

160 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

reflective medium-paced
Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado by D. Graham Burnett

Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado

D. Graham Burnett

314 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

history informative sad medium-paced
More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness by Elizabeth Armstrong

More Real?: Art in the Age of Truthiness

Elizabeth Armstrong

304 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction art
Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses by D. Graham Burnett, Justin E.H. Smith
Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
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D. Graham Burnett, Justin E.H. Smith

Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses

D. Graham Burnett, Justin E.H. Smith

376 pages • missing pub info (editions)

medium-paced