wyszukanych pozycji: 31
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780674061644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted over time? How did the projection of Christ's 1,000-year reign become a secular measure? And when exactly does the millennium begin--January 1, 2000, or January 2, 2001?
Gould addresses three questions about the millennium with his typical erudition, warmth, and whimsy: What is the concept of a millennium and how has i...
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85,42 zł |
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
ISBN: 9780393325577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is a delight, an essential addition to Gould's remarkable legacy, and a fitting tribute to his love for the game.
This book is a delight, an essential addition to Gould's remarkable legacy, and a fitting tribute to his love for the game.
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106,89 zł |
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780674061675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain's four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collection presents the richness and fascination of the various lives that have fueled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.
Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain's four greatest Victorian naturalists. This collection...
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96,13 zł |
Grandpa and "HI-YO, Silver": One of Grandpa's Stories
ISBN: 9781480197466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grandpa has an EXCITING time riding with his sister Bethany on their Shetland pony, Becky. The excitement starts when their sister Leah decides to try imitating that "Masked Man," the Lone Ranger. Riding a runaway horse is EXCITING and FUN, at first.... as Grandpa soon learns. Grandpa's Stories are true tales written to entertain children of all ages.
Grandpa has an EXCITING time riding with his sister Bethany on their Shetland pony, Becky. The excitement starts when their sister Leah decides to try...
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43,86 zł |
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities
ISBN: 9780674061668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his final book and his first full-length original title since "Full House" in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities.
In his final book and his first full-length original title since "Full House" in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Gould offers a surprising and nuance...
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85,42 zł |
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
ISBN: 9780674639416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "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)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Mr. Gould explores recapitulation as an idea that intrigued politicians and theologians as well as scientists. He... "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the rela... |
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219,29 zł |
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780393311396 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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."
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 co...
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124,03 zł |
Wonderful Life
ISBN: 9780099273455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Centring on the discovery in the Burgess Shale of 530 million year old fossils unique in age, preservation and diversity, this book challenges perceptions about man's place in the history of life.
Centring on the discovery in the Burgess Shale of 530 million year old fossils unique in age, preservation and diversity, this book challenges percept...
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67,06 zł |
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History
ISBN: 9780393308181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 wr...
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106,89 zł |
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780393303759 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Evolutionary theory is 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 .400 hitter.
Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and s...
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124,03 zł |
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
ISBN: 9780674061620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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.
Gould's final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine--exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month miss...
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96,13 zł |
Punctuated Equilibrium
ISBN: 9780674024441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the best known since Darwin. Now, thirty-five years later, and five years after his untimely death, Punctuated Equilibrium (originally published as the central chapter of Gould's masterwork, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) offers his only book-length testament on an idea he... In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a c... |
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128,52 zł |
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780393311037 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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 introduces the reader to some of the many and wonderful manifestations of evolutionary biology.
Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most en...
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115,46 zł |
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
ISBN: 9780345450401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance: the rift between science and religion. Instead of choosing them, Gould asks, why not opt for a golden mean that accords dignity and distinction to each realm?
In his distinctively elegant style, Gould offers a lucid, contemporary principle that allows science and religion to coexist peacefully in a position of respectful noninterference. Science defines the natural world; religion... Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dil...
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77,11 zł |
Wie das Zebra zu seinen Streifen kommt : Essays zur Naturgeschichte
ISBN: 9783518285190 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 1991 / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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64,24 zł |
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
ISBN: 9780674061637 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order.
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order.
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96,13 zł |
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
ISBN: 9780674891999 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field. In Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle his subject is nothing less than geology's signal contribution to human thought--the discovery of "deep time," the vastness of earth's history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor.... 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 pa... |
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160,39 zł |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
ISBN: 9780393307009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 ...
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81,35 zł |
The Richness of Life: A Stephen Jay Gould Reader
ISBN: 9780099488675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 646 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stephen Jay Gould's writings on history - both of the natural world and of the study of that natural world - had made him a household name by the time of his death in 2002. This work contains a selection of Gould's writing, including some of the most famous of his essays and extracts from his major books.
Stephen Jay Gould's writings on history - both of the natural world and of the study of that natural world - had made him a household name by the time...
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90,98 zł |
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
ISBN: 9780393027051 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 ...
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214,20 zł |