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  | | Ever Since Darwin(Reprint) Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30818-1, ISBN: 0-393-30818-9 "More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings ..." |
 | | The Flamingo's Smile(2nd Edition) Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, Sj Gould Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30375-9, ISBN: 0-393-30375-6 ""Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal―a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath. . . . [He] is a leading theorist on large-scale patterns in evolution . . . [and] one of the sharpest and most humane thinkers in the sciences." --David Quammen, New York Times Book Review" |
 | | Bully for Brontosaurus(Reprint) Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30857-0, ISBN: 0-393-30857-X "Paperback. Pub Date: 1992 Pages: 544 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. Stephen Jay Gould is world class. He sets the standard. When it comes to popular scientific essays he leads the (small) pack This collection of 35 pieces. all first appeared in Natural History magazine. It includes essays on language. the role of chance in history. the evolution of life and the human family tree. And Gould treats us to his favorite. In a Jumbled Drawer. whe ..." |
 | | The Mismeasure of Man(Updated) (Revised and Expanded) by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1996 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31425-0, ISBN: 0-393-31425-1 "How smart are you? If that question doesn't spark a dozen more questions in your mind (like "What do you mean by 'smart,'" "How do I measure it," and "Who's asking?"), then The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould's masterful demolition of the IQ industry, should be required reading. Gould's brilliant, funny, engaging prose dissects the motivations behind those who would judge intelligence, and hence worth, by cranial size, convolutio ..." |
 | | The Panda's Thumb(Reprint) More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1992 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30819-8, ISBN: 0-393-30819-7 ""Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." ―P. B. Medawar, New York Review of BooksWith sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights.Were di ..." |
 | | Bully for Brontosaurus(1st Edition) Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Hardcover, 540 Pages, Published 1991 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-02961-1, ISBN: 0-393-02961-1 "Stephen Jay Gould has a wide range of interests, and for many years he has shared his enthusiasms in the pages of Natural History and the New York Review of Books, among other journals. His passions include baseball, the puzzles of evolutionary theory, and the game of scholarly detection as it applies to questions such as, "What became of dinosaurs, anyway?". He answers entertainingly, but never talks down to his readers. Gould is o ..." |
 | | Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, Sj Gould Paperback, 413 Pages, Published 1981 by W.W. Norton ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30200-4, ISBN: 0-393-30200-8 "What color is a zebra? Does the changing size of a Hershey bar hold a lesson of adaptive significance? Did an asteroid bring mass extinction to the earth 65 million years ago? Why do animals walk, fly, swim and slither but never roll? Human beings not withstanding, why are the females of most species larger than the males? Behind each question and each answer lie concepts central to science and in particular to an understanding of ..." |
 | | I Have Landed(Updated) Splashes and Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-09-974971-4, ISBN: 0-09-974971-8 "Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. With I Have Landed, Gould once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history. Ranging from the discovery of the new scourge of syphilis by ..." |
 | | Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes(Reprint) Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31103-7, ISBN: 0-393-31103-1 ""Lively and fascinating. . . . [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature."—Tracy KidderOver a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould introduces the reader to some of the many and wonderful manifestations of ..." |
 | | Wonderful Life The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1990 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30700-9, ISBN: 0-393-30700-X "The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection of animals unlike any other. Just how unlike is the subject of Gould's book. Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled, and analyzed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what ..." |
 | | Ever Since Darwin Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould, Sj Gould Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 1981 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-00917-0, ISBN: 0-393-00917-3 "Darwin revolutionized the world of Natural history with his discoveries, but were they truly based of facts?" |
 | | Rocks of Ages(Reprint) Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Professor Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2002 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-45040-1, ISBN: 0-345-45040-X "Revered and eminently readable essayist Stephen Jay Gould has once again rendered the complex simple, this time mending the seeming split between the two "Rocks of Ages," science and religion. He quickly, and rightfully, admits that his thesis is not new, but one broadly accepted by many scientists and theologians. Gould begins by suggesting that Darwin has been misconstrued--that while some religious thinkers have used divinity ..." |
 | | Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould, Askell Gould Paperback, 501 Pages, Published 1977 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-63941-6, ISBN: 0-674-63941-3 " "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fa ..." |
 | | I Have Landed(1st Edition) The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2002 by Harmony ISBN-13: 978-0-609-60143-3, ISBN: 0-609-60143-1 "Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould’s tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he has ever published, I Have Landed marks the end of a significant chapter in the career of one of the mos ..." |
 | | Questioning the Millennium(Updated) by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage/Ebury (A Division Of Random ISBN-13: 978-0-09-976581-3, ISBN: 0-09-976581-0 "Stephen Jay Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium. He looks at the origins of the term in the Biblical prophecies of the Book of Revelation - if the six ages of man date from 4000BC, will 2000AD signify the end of time? Gould describes how the meaning of the word has evolved to its present day usage and tackles the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or at the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion t ..." |
 | | Questioning the Millennium(1st Edition) A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown by Stephen Jay Gould, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Fox Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1997 by Harmony ISBN-13: 978-0-609-60076-4, ISBN: 0-609-60076-1 "In Questioning the Millennium, Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium.In this beautiful inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with his readers. Refreshingly reasoned, erudite, and absorbing, the book asks and answers the three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event:First, what exactly is this ..." |
 | | Full House(1st Edition) The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 1996 by Harmony ISBN-13: 978-0-517-70394-6, ISBN: 0-517-70394-7 "Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new ..." |
 | | Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle(Reprint) Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1988 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-89199-9, ISBN: 0-674-89199-6 " Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field. In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology's signal contributi ..." |
 | | Dinosaur in a Haystack(1st Edition) Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1995 by Harmony ISBN-13: 978-0-517-70393-9, ISBN: 0-517-70393-9 "Book Description Publication Date: December 12, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0517703939 | ISBN-13: 978-0517703939 | Edition: 1 Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history. From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes ..." |
 | | Wonderful Life(1st Edition) The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould, Sj Gould, Marianne Collins Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1989 by W. W. Norton Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-393-02705-1, ISBN: 0-393-02705-8 "Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life. The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. First Edition, second impression. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Octavo. 347 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare in this condition. Includes for example the following chapters: The Iconography of an Expectation / A Background for the Burgess Shale ..." |
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