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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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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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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Questioning the Millennium by Stephen Jay Gould Synopsis In an effort to understand what there is about the thousand-year interval that has made it such a calendric fixation of Western culture, author Stephen Jay Gould sets out to answer the questions of what, why, and when in order to explain the growing... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In a series of essays giving careful consideration to the theory of evolution, Gould examines some of the more intriguing mysteries of the topic, studying the Piltdown Man hoax, the deceleration of earth's rotation, and other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments From his bestseller Wonderful Life to his splendid essays on endlessly interesting variations of evolution, Gould has raised the art of scientific writing to new heights. "Whether his topic is typewriter design, the technical triumph of Voyager or Joe... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Have Landed by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould?s tenth and final collection 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... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In his ?nal book and his ?rst full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth & Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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 paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In his ninth 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. In tandem with the closing of the millennium, Gould is... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments 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 paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Review "This collection evinces no dimming of Gould?s humanistic brilliance." Booklist... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Book Club Paperback
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould About the Author Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the Vincent Astor visiting professor of biology at New York University. Recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack and Questioning the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history. From fads to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Questioning the millennium :a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown 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: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mismeasure of Man (81 - Old Edition) by Stephen Jay Gould List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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