Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

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...

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. 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...

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...

Reducere. This book is a sequel to Williamstown and Williams College: Explorations in Local History (2018). It is a collection of microstudies, or microhisto...

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

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...

Reducere. The book Warriors of Legend is one of the first of its kind, using a specific Japanese anime/manga series- the megahit Sailor Moon- to teach about ...

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...

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. DescriptionMy Further Disillusionment in Russia is a 1924 non-fiction book by Emma Goldman, her continuation of My Disillusionment in Russia, the o...

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...

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 ...

Guard Your Teeth follows the author's journey from a mouthful of dental problems to a new, nature-based way of looking at and treating dental disea...

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

Reducere. An eye-opening book leading equestrians into a brave new horse world, where we train horses their way, not ours. For years, Andrea Kutsch filled st...

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...