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Science & Math
"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... See More
Science & Math
The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific... See More
Science & Math
More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including... See More
Religion & Spirituality
"People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace... I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand... See More
Science & Math
"What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving -- for reasons well and truly stated." -- Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as... See More
Sports & Outdoors
"Scientific analysis intersects with flat-out fandom. [Gould] could write, he was funny, and he loved, loved baseball." -- Booklist Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary... See More
Science & Math
"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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according... See More
Science & Math
"[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... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. In 1950 at age eight... See More
"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... See More
Sports & Outdoors
"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... See More
Science & Math
"Lively and fascinating... [Gould] writes beautifully about science and the wonders of nature." -- Tracy Kidder Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy... See More
Science & Math
"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." -- P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the... See More
Science & Math
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... See More