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An Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
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 lively collection.
Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Science
The title is a pun, and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a di ...Show more
I Have Landed - Splashes and reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
432 pages Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. Here, Gould once again applied biographical pe ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox by Stephen Jay Gould
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this volume, Stephen Jay Gould uses the centries-old confict between science and the humanities - between the notion of relying solely on experiment and that of reason and imagination - to delve into burning scientific issues of the past and present.
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox - Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-k ...Show more
The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould
34.99 NZD
37.00 (5% off)
Category: Science
There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious radical and sometime Marxist - controversial throug ...Show more
The Richness of Life : the essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould (ed Paul McGarr & Steven Rose)
77.99 NZD
85.00 (8% off)
Category: Science
There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living legends'. It is still more unlikely that the title should have been conferred on a man regarded by many in the US as a notorious radical and sometime Marxist - controversial throug ...Show more
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer & Stephen Jay Gould
37.99 NZD
45.00 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
34.99 NZD
Category: Science
An account of a revolution in our understanding of life's history, this book tells how three obscure British scientists completely changed our view of evolution by discovering a unique group of 530 million year-old creatures in the Burgess Shale fossil deposit in the Rockies.
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