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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Questioning the Millennium Rev Edition by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ever Since Darwin: Relations in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance--the apparent schism between science and religion.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The latest research and paintings prepared especially for this book highlight a new edition of the story of life on earth. "The Book of Life" explains how mammals, after surviving the impact of a massive comet, inherited the earth, and explains chains of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lying Stones of Marrakech by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the late 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books have bridged the yawning gap between science and wider culture... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Evolutionary theory in the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and sometimes back again, and the extinction from baseball of the .... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention... (read more) List Price $77.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments "His fourth volume of imaginative, witty essays...equals Gould's prize-winning The Panda's Thumb and The Mismeasure of Man".--Publisher's Weekly. Photographs.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments "People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace.... I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand why the two enterprises... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments As always in his popular writing, Gould conveys the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves, minus only the technical jargon. In the title essay, he details his grandfather's journey from Hungary to America, and in a moving epilogue... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Reviews books about pandas, scientific research, evolution, culture, geology, the origin of the mind, testing bias, genetics, and scientific... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $12.38 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lying Stones of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections in Natural History (00 Edition) by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In his latest collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it. Gould is planning to bring down the curtain on his nearly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Crossing Over, the latest of three collaborations between scholar Stephen Jay Gould and artist Rosamond Wolff Purcell, brings together thought-provoking essays and uncannily beautiful photographs to disprove the popular notion that art and science exist... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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