Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

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

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. 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...

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

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

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

Reducere. I didn't hold back in declaring anything that was beneficial to you and in teaching you publicly and from house to house . . . I haven't held back ...

Reducere. "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary." The Christian Science Monitor The modern...

A pioneering partnership between National Museums Scotland and The Glenmorangie Comany has supported a major programme of research into the archaeo...

A clear and concise overview of the life and work of the immensely influential but little understood eighteenth-century mystic-scientist Emanuel Sw...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King presents an original screenplay and major television event set in Maine's remote Little Tall Isla...

Reducere. This is an anthology of works done for the Order of the Trapezoid in the 1980s. The body of the book contains seventeen articles including: Mysteri...

Reducere. Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the ro...

Reducere. This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preserva...

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

Reducere. DescriptionAn intimate biography of one of the greatest social and religious reformers of the modern world."Gandhi's work in nonviolence was compre...

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Science has always been part of Doctor Who. The first episode featured scenes in a science laboratory and a science teacher, and the 2020 season's ...

Reducere. DescriptionGet inspired by 60 hand-lettered alphabets and the artists who draw them This beautiful follow-up to 100 Days of Lettering helps you mas...

DescriptionStranger Than Fiction brings together, for the first time, Mike Jay's distinctive and immensely readable forays into the twilight zones ...

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. Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller--A Perfect Storm on land--that chronicles America's biggest tornado outbreak since t...

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Reducere. Books for Young and Early School-Aged Boys This is the third in a new series of children's books, The Adventures of Jay and Gizmo. Although they wi...

A unique and fun introduction to philosophy.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Stephen LawNumber of pages: 64Collection: Really Really Big Question...

More than 6, 000 words and phrases that make the difference between "yadda-yadda-yadda" and copy that sells Looking for a better way to say "authen...

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...

Reducere. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Airplane by aerospace industry writer Jay Spencer, former assistant curator of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and the M...

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

At Still Waters, all agreed that there would only be one rule: "Everyone listens to everyone." And this has unlocked spectacular potential.Since 20...

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

Reducere. Disc 1: Song Title Time 1. Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: Prelude 2: 24 2. Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: Fugue 1: 56 3. Pr...

Reducere. Trouble brews in the tiny country village of Fairacre when it is discovered that Farmer Miller's Hundred Acre Field is slated for real estate devel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Illustrator: Paul CunninghamAuthor: Maria DatenoIn this second volume of the Gospel Time Trekkers series, children ages 6-9 are tak...