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BULLY FOR BRONTOSAURUS by GOULD STEPHEN JAY
Category: Science
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the g ...Show more
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Nature
Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has perfected the art of the essay in this brilliant new collection. These thirty-four essays, most originally published in Natural History magazine, exemplify the keen insight with which Dr. Gould observes the natural world and convey the infe ...Show more
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
The title is a pun, and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a di ...Show more
I Have Landed; Splashes and Reflections in Natural History by GOULD STEPHEN JAY
Category: Fiction
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 discover ...Show more
I Have Landed - Splashes and reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science & Natural History
432 pages 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. Here, Gould once again applied biographical pe ...Show more
Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of ...Show more
Punctuated Equilibrium by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
In 1972, Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time - perhaps the best ...Show more
Rocks of Ages - Science and religion in the fullness of life by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
Sheds light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, the author asks why do we not opt for the golden resolution that accords dignity and distinction to both? He also delves into the history of science with stories of ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science & Natural History
In this volume, Stephen Jay Gould uses the centries-old confict between science and the humanities - between the notion of relying solely on experiment and that of reason and imagination - to delve into burning scientific issues of the past and present.
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox - Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-k ...Show more
The Lying Stones Of Marrakech by Stephen Jay Gould
Category: Science
In this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering.