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Gratzer, Walter (Editor); Gould, Stephen Jay (Foreword) A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity in Science 1869-1953
New York, New York, U.S.A. W H Freeman & Co 1999 0716736500 / 9780716736509 Trade Paperback Fine
Near-new copy of this over-sized book. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. Illustrated throughout. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 266 pages. - From The Critics Booknews These scientific outtakes from magazine, 1869-1953, compiled by Gratzer (U. of London) should not be bedside reading, for they will surely keep one entertained into the wee hours. Stephen Jay Gould (paleontology, Harvard U.) applauds the smorgasbord of iconoclastic ruminations by neglected geniuses on scholarly minutiae, animal anecdotes, and why the number "137" crops up in many formulae<- ->along with more classic scientific thought, and greats such as Francis Galton out in left field curing gout with strawberries. Like C. K. Chesterton's comment on ditchwater viewed microscopically: "... It teems with quiet fun." Reminiscent of Harvard's annual Ig Nobel Prizes for science accomplishments that "cannot or should not be reproduced." Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Gould, Stephen Jay Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
W W Norton & Co Inc 1992 039330857X / 9780393308570 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine, clean condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 540 pages. Illustrated. - Stephen Jay Gould is world class. He sets the standard. When it comes to popular scientific essays, he leads the (small) pack. This collection of 35 pieces, all first appeared in Natural History magazine. It includes essays on language, the role of chance in history, the evolution of life and the human family tree. And Gould treats us to his favorite, "In a Jumbled Drawer," where he examines racism in 19th century science. "Gould combines information with charm and humor," (Atlantic) and "extols advances in science like the space probe Voyager." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Gould, Stephen Jay I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
New York, New York, U.S.A. Harmony Books 2002 0609601431 / 9780609601433 Trade Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Illustrated. 418 pages. - 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 thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he has ever published, I Have Landed marks the end of a significant chapter in the career of one of the most acclaimed and widely read scientists of our time. Gould writes about the themes that have defined his career, which his readers have come to expect and celebrate, casting new light upon them and conveying the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves (minus the technical jargon). Here, of course, is Charles Darwin, from his centrality to any sound scientific education to little-known facts about his life. Gould touches on subjects as far-reaching and disparate as feathered dinosaurs, the scourge of syphilis and the frustration of the man who identified it, and Freud’s “evolutionary fantasy.” He writes brilliantly of Nabokov’s delicately crafted drawings of butterflies and the true meaning of biological diversity. And in the poignant title essay, he details his grandfather’s journey from Hungary to America, where he arrived on September 11, 1901. It is from his grandfather’s journal entry of that day, stating simply “I have landed,” that the book’s title was drawn. This landing occurred 100 years to the day before our greatest recent tragedy, also explored, but with optimism, in the concluding section of the book. Presented in eight parts, I HaveLanded begins with a remembrance of a moment of wonder from childhood. In Part II, Gould explains that humanistic disciplines are not antithetical to theoretical or applied sciences. Rather, they often share a commonality of method and motivation, with great potential to enhance the achievements of each other, an assertion perfectly supported by essays on such notables as Nabokov and Frederic Church. Part III contains what no Gould collection would be complete without: his always compelling “mini intellectual biographies, which render each subject and his work deserving of reevaluation and renewed significance. In this collection of figures compelling and strange, Gould exercises one of his greatest strengths, the ability to reveal a significant scientific concept through a finely crafted and sympathetic portrait of the person behind the science. Turning his pen to three key figures Sigmund Freud, Isabelle Duncan, and E. Ray Lankester, the latter an unlikely attendee of the funeral of Karl Marx he highlights the effect of the Darwinian revolution and its resonance on their lives and work. Part IV encourages the reader through what Gould calls intellectual paleontology to consider scientific theories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a new light and to recognize the limitations our own place in history may impose on our understanding of those ideas. Part V explores the op-ed genre and includes two essays with differing linguistic formats, which address the continual tug-of-war between the study of evolution and creationism. In subsequent essays, in true Gould fashion, we are treated to moments of good humor, especially when he leads us to topics that bring him obvious delight, such as Dorothy Sayers novels and his enduring love of baseball and all its dramas. There is an ardent admiration of the topsy-turvy world of Gilbert and Sullivan (wonderfully demonstrated in the jacket illustration), who are not above inclusion in all things evolutionary. This is truly Gould’s most personal work to date. How fitting that this final collection should be his most revealing and, in content, the one that reflects most clearly the complexity, breadth of knowledge, and optimism that characterize Gould himself. I Have Landed succeeds in reinforcing Gould’s underlying and constant theme from the series’ commencement thirty years age the study of our own scientific, intellectual, and emotional evolution bringing reader and author alike to what can only be described as a brilliantly written and very natural conclusion.
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Gould, Stephen Jay Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
Ballantine Books 2002 034545040X / 9780345450401 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. Small remainder dot on top. NO clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. Pages show slight tanning. 243 pages. Covers are bright and clean (NO tears). Synopsis Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of choosing between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for a golden mean that accords dignity and distinction to each realm? At the heart of Gould's penetrating argument is a lucid, contemporary principle he calls NOMA (for nonoverlapping magisteria) - a "blessedly simple and entirely conventional resolution" that allows science and religion to coexist peacefully in a position of respectful noninterference. Science defines the natural world; religion, our moral world, in recognition of their separate spheres of influence.
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Gould, Stephen Jay Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
W W Norton & Co Inc 1989 0393027058 / 9780393027051 Hard Cover Near-Fine Very Good
Very-nice, clean copy - NO tears inside book. ONLY writing/mark inside book is a small, numerical note in book front, on blank page - Tight spine, clean pages - Illustrated throughout - 347 pages - NO remainder marks or dustcover clippings. Pages show slight tanning. Tucked into the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. Discovered early in the century, the shale holds the remains of an ancient sea that nurtured more varities of life than can be found in all of our modern oceans. Darwinian theory says that animals living so long ago were necessarily simple in design and limited in scope. But more recent interpretations unexpectedly reveal the great diversity locked in the shale. Explosive stuff, for it blasts the belief that the history of life has been a broadening of options and challenges the idea that humans crown the evolutionary process. Stephen Jay Gould advocates the role played in this process by chance. Things could easily have gone differently. It makes the reader wonder what might have been, and lets each of us provide our own answer.
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