Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 37,62 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 & Company
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1992-05-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393308570
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 : 39,47 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 : 350 pages
File Size : 23,96 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.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,64 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 : Scott Ciencin
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375805950
Bertram Phillips's M.I.N.D. Machine throws him back to southern California's Jurassic period, and this time it also throws real dinosaurs forward into the halls of Wetherford Junior High! Bertram's only chance of setting things right again is to accept the help of J.D. "Judgment Day" Harms, the biggest bully in the eighth grade and the second-smartest student after Bertram. But J.D.'s own plans aren't pretty, and they may change the future forever.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher :
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Evolution
ISBN : 9780140134810
Lively and fascinating. . . . Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature. Tracy Kidder
Author : Judith Viorst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416999620
Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674891999
Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,87 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.
