Inspired by Thomas Malthus' food-supply ideas, his 1859 book was called "the book that shook the world"
... always increases faster than its food supply, Malthus paints a grim 
picture of the... [DOC] [TLE] On the Origin of Species - World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of ... [PAR] Positing a mechanism called natural selection for the evolution of new ... 
Wallace, finally drove Darwin to publish the book that shook the world (Mayr, p. 
vii).