Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Paperback - Stephen Jay Gould

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. 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...

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. 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. 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. 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. The Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into understanding the secrets of consciousness, ancient history, and the very ...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe Stage of Time will bring you through an adventurous exploration into the very nature of reality itself. Be prepared to question the ...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe Burgess Animal Book for Children is a book about Peter Rabbit finding out about the animals around him in the Green Meadows and Gree...

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

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. Stephen Budiansky brings the insights of modern science regarding the nature of horses to a wider audience of horse enthusiasts and animal lovers i...

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...

An essential primer on how to look at and understand photographs, by one of the world's most influential photographers, Stephen Shore. He explores ...

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...

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Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fie...

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...

This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelist...

The essays in this volume pose critical questions and suggest constructive possibilities regarding the extent to which trinitarian and pluralist di...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new edition of Yiquan and the Nature of Energy has been completely revised and updated. In it, Sifu Fong Ha, a master of the intern...

Reducere. A. C. Graham's Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking was originally published in Singapore in 1986 by the Institute of East Asian Philoso...

Reducere. On the Boston Common stands one of the great Civil War memorials, a magnificent bronze sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It depicts the black so...

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Pleasurable Kingdom presents new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. From birds to baboons, insects to iguanas, animals feel good...

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. DescriptionThe Burgess Bird Book for Children is a book about Peter Rabbit finding out about the birds around him in the Green Meadows and Green Fo...

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

If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanis...

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Contributor(s): Author: John RussonJohn Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and i...

Decode Your Astrological Sign Have you ever been asked: what's your sign? This is book contains everything you need to know about the fundamentals ...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

Reducere. One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcil...

Reducere. In his phenomenal bestseller Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer explored the makeup of the modern self. Now, in his superbly written new book, he fo...

David Johnson uses Spencer Roane's conflict with John Marshall as ballast for the first-ever biography of this highly influential but largely forgo...

Reducere. More Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History, "" by Stephen Mansfield, is a lively, upbeat, edgy look at history as someth...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...