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Bully for Brontosaurus - Further reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"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
Eight Little Piggies Reflections by Stephen Jay Gould
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Finders, Keepers - Eight Collectors by Rosamund Wolf Purcell; Stephen Jay Gould
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A few that did survive have fallen, figuratively, into the clutches of two of America's most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. What these collections say about the collectors, and about human beings in general, is the subject of this strangely be ...Show more
Finders, Keepers, Eight Collectors by Rosamond Wolf Purcell and Stephen Jay Gould
$30.00 NZD
Category: Antiques | Reading Level: very good
A few that did survive have fallen, figuratively, into the clutches of two of America's most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. What these collections say about the collectors, and about human beings in general, is the subject of this strangely be ...Show more
Full House - The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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 a ...Show more
I Have Landed - Splashes and reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Wormsis the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays fromNatural Historymagazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has ...Show more
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
"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 Revie ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox - Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
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
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
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.
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