Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

Reducere. 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...

Reducere. Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers an...

Reducere. Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state, " writes Stephen Jay Gould, its mos...

Stephen Jay Gould's writings on history - both of the natural world and of the study of that natural world - had made him a household name by the t...

Reducere. 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 s...

Reducere. In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a c...

Reducere. These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto ...

Description"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what ...

Reviews books about pandas, scientific research, evolution, culture, geology, the origin of the mind, testing bias, genetics, and scientific frauds.

Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails a...

Reducere. 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 pa...

Reducere. 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 s...

This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques th...

Reducere. This book is a delight, an essential addition to Gould's remarkable legacy, and a fitting tribute to his love for the game.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It was the custom ...

One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon--the first of its species to see Europe f...

An irresistible chapter book series from the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales featuring Lily, a rescue dog who resc...

Remarkable artworks by British artists from the late 17th Century to modern times. Published to tie in with a new art exhibition opening at the Mus...

Reducere. In 1988 Herb Fitch wrote to Stephen and Lynn Jay about his intent to take four years and write four books. This did not come to pass before his tra...

Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly h...

Reducere. When John Gould was young, a boy learned about the sea--and arithmetic and knots and geography and life--from the old deep-water men living out the...

Publisher: Smithsonian BooksAuthor(s): Jay A. (Jay A. Levenson ) LevensonNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 252 x 313 x 43Cover ...

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Reducere. What is morality and what is the source of our moral ideas? Philosophers have explored these questions for centuries, suggesting that both emotion ...

A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world ...

Reducere. Once viewed as a novelty, the field of sport psychology has grown tremendously over the last half century. Today, many elite athletes and teams wor...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. An incomparable illustrated look at the critical role bees play in the life of our planetBees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed cr...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

Dinosaurs continues to make science exciting and understandable to science and non-science majors alike, through its emphasis of scientific concept...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Melissa Gould's hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.When Melissa Gould's husband, Joel, was unexpectedly h...

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Show your love with the Pocket Piggies of Pennywell Farm! Charming photos and simple text celebrate love in its many forms, between parent and chil...

From an acclaimed financial historian comes the first ever biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th century robber barons, whose brilliance...

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Reducere. This little puzzle has fascinated and confused millions of people since its conception in 1974. It even took the inventor of the cube Ernő Rubik a ...

Reducere. ``Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.`` --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists hav...

Reducere. DescriptionSnakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They ap...

Reducere. The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape--its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human--has become the ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Join field biologist Richard MacDonald on a year-long journey to document the birds of Acadia National Park and Downeast Maine. As you read this bo...

DescriptionThe Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has...

Reducere. Award NameNortheastern Minnesota Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionThis 365-day journal of daily natural history is a delightful book for anyone in...

Another fantastic adventure in the animal kingdom for readers aged 5 to 500. The Queen and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown visit the Natural Histor...