Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393340821
"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 game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Evolution
ISBN :
Essays from the author's column This view of life, published in Natural history.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393340848
"There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2010-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393340856
"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
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1992-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393340414
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 art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674061616
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher :
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Evolution
ISBN : 9780140134810
Lively and fascinating. . . . Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature. Tracy Kidder
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674061632
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674061624
Gould’s final essay collection is 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 ever published.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1990-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393245209
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
