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Questioning The Millennium
ISBN: 9780099765813 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Stephen Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium, describing how the meaning of the word has evolved to its modern usage, and tackling the debate over whether the millennium ends in 1999 or the end of 2000AD. He also questions the human compulsion to impose our time-schemes on the universe.
Stephen Gould examines the phenomenon of the millennium, describing how the meaning of the word has evolved to its modern usage, and tackling the deba...
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71,88 zł |
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I Have Landed : Splashes and Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780099749714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays apply biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery of the scourge of syphilis by Fracastero in the 16th century to Isabelle Duncan's 19th-century attempt at reconciling scripture and palaeontology.
This collection of essays apply biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the discovery...
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94,02 zł |
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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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110,29 zł |
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The Hedgehog, The Fox And The Magister's Pox: Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities
ISBN: 9780099440826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Weaves the ideas of some of Wester society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to EO Wilson, with uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. This work of science their ideas to undo an assumption that science and humanities stand
Weaves the ideas of some of Wester society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to EO Wilson, with uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivota...
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94,02 zł |
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Las Piedras Falaces de Marrakech: Pen?ltimas Reflexiones Sobre Historia Natural / The Lying Stones of Marrakech
ISBN: 9786075697284 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,03 zł |
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The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780099285830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering.
In this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their hist...
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88,48 zł |
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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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45,26 zł |
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Rocks Of Ages
ISBN: 9780099284529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for the golden resolution that accords dignity and distinction to both? Gould concludes that science defines the natural world, religion our moral world.
Sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, Gould a...
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88,48 zł |
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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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110,29 zł |
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Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History
ISBN: 9780099507444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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 different form - our canonical number, based on our fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. This book deploys this, which is one of the oddities of 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 inhe...
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94,02 zł |
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Punctuated Equilibrium
ISBN: 9780674024441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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143,60 zł |
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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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119,13 zł |
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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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79,57 zł |
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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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127,97 zł |
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Wonderful Life
ISBN: 9780099273455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 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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67,22 zł |
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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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221,03 zł |
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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. 30 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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165,73 zł |
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
ISBN: 9780393307009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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83,95 zł |
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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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64,39 zł |
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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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94,02 zł |
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