Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0393340821

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"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 game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1990-09-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0393245209

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"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review 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 sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0393340848

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"There is no scientist today whose books I look forward to reading with greater anticipation of enjoyment and enlightenment than Stephen Jay Gould."—Martin Gardner 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 collected essays—his sixth since Ever Since Darwin—Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates.

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0393340856

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"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 Review

I Have Landed
I Have Landed

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0674061624

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Gould’s final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0674061632

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With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.

Bully for Brontosaurus
Bully for Brontosaurus

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1992-05-05

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780393308570

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Essays from the author's column This view of life, published in Natural history.

Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Lulu and the Brontosaurus

Author: Judith Viorst

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1416999620

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Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.

Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9780140134810

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Lively and fascinating. . . . Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature. Tracy Kidder

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Author: Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1992-07-17

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0393340414

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More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.