Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340821
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548

Book Description
"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

Bully for Brontosaurus

Bully for Brontosaurus PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340848
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
"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.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245209
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
"[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.

I Have Landed

I Have Landed PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
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.

Full House

Full House PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061616
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.

Beverly Hills Brontosaurus

Beverly Hills Brontosaurus PDF Author: Scott Ciencin
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375805950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Bertram Phillips's M.I.N.D. Machine throws him back to southern California's Jurassic period, and this time it also throws real dinosaurs forward into the halls of Wetherford Junior High! Bertram's only chance of setting things right again is to accept the help of J.D. "Judgment Day" Harms, the biggest bully in the eighth grade and the second-smartest student after Bertram. But J.D.'s own plans aren't pretty, and they may change the future forever.

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340856
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
"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

Lulu and the Brontosaurus

Lulu and the Brontosaurus PDF Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416999620
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
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 PDF Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140134810
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 413

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