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Stephen Jay Gould : reflections on his view of life /

Table of Contents: “…Kelley -- Top-tier : Stephen Jay Gould and mass extinctions / David C. Kendrick -- Stephen Jay Gould -- what does it mean to be a radical? …”
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The mismeasure of man by Gould, Stephen Jay

Ever since Darwin : reflections in natural history by Gould, Stephen Jay

Wonderful life : the Burgess Shale and the nature of history by Gould, Stephen Jay

The panda's thumb : more reflections in natural history by Gould, Stephen Jay

Dinosaur in a haystack : reflections in natural history by Gould, Stephen Jay

Time's arrow, time's cycle : myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time by Gould, Stephen Jay

Questioning the millennium : a rationalist's guide to a precisely arbitrary countdown by Gould, Stephen Jay

Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology

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Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology

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Art & craft : thirty years on the literary beat / Art and craft by Thompson, Bill, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Urchin in the Storm by Stephen Jay Gould /…”
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Major modern essayists

Table of Contents: “…White -- George Orwell -- Lewis Thomas -- James Baldwin -- Cynthia Ozick -- Richard Selzer -- Joan Didion -- Margaret Atwood -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Richard Rodiguez -- Alice Walker -- Annie Dillard -- Barry Lopez.…”

On our minds : how evolutionary psychology is reshaping the nature-versus-nurture debate by Gander, Eric

Table of Contents: “…Stephen Jay Gould historicizes science -- Richard Herrnstein stirs up controversy at Harvard yard -- Edward O. …”
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The new celebrity scientists : out of the lab and into the limelight by Fahy, Declan

Table of Contents: “…A brief history of scientific celebrity -- The paradoxical fame of Stephen Hawking -- Richard Dawkins's image problem -- Steven Pinker's academic stardom -- The political celebrity of Stephen Jay Gould -- Fame and the female scientist : Susan Greenfield -- The reluctant fame of James Lovelock -- The charming stardom of Brian Greene -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson's star quality -- A new scientific elite.…”
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A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape by Mares, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould -- Prologue -- Search for undiscovered life -- Immortal animals -- Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters -- Darkness and the cave of the jaguar -- Winding path to field biology -- Desert at the bottom of the world -- Different actors, different scripts -- Desert in the sky -- Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve -- Land of the shah -- Impenetrable land of thorns -- Devil's town -- In the shadow of the pyramids -- Naming the anonymous -- From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos -- Aridity's cornucopia -- Life in the desert of salt -- Land of diamonds -- Epilogue.…”
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Reason in Revolt : Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science. by Woods, Ted

Table of Contents: “…The Big Bang; NOTES PART TWO; Appendix I; What the Human Genome Means for Socialists; Appendix II; A Tribute to a Great Scientist, Stephen Jay Gould, Who Died on May 20, 2002; Bibliography; Glossary of Terms.…”
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The faith of scientists in their own words

Table of Contents: “…Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) -- Richard Dawkins (1941-) -- Jane Goodall (1934-) -- Steven Weinberg (1933-) -- John Polkinghorne (1930-) -- Freeman Dyson (1923-) -- Stephen Hawking (1942-) -- Paul Davies (1946-) -- Edward O. …”

The faith of scientists in their own words

Table of Contents: “…Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) -- Richard Dawkins (1941- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Steven Weinberg (1933- ) -- John Polkinghorne (1930- ) -- Freeman Dyson (1923- ) -- Stephen Hawking (1942- ) -- Paul Davies (1946- ) -- Edward O. …”
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The faith of scientists in their own words

Table of Contents: “…Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Carl Sagan (1934-1996) -- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) -- Richard Dawkins (1941- ) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Steven Weinberg (1933- ) -- John Polkinghorne (1930- ) -- Freeman Dyson (1923- ) -- Stephen Hawking (1942- ) -- Paul Davies (1946- ) -- Edward O. …”
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Why not clone a human? / Ethical challenges of biotechnology

Laughter Before Sleep. by Pack, Robert

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Measuring intelligence : facts and fallacies by Bartholomew, David J.

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Monad to man : the concept of progress in evolutionary biology by Ruse, Michael

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The great fossil enigma : the search for the conodont animal by Knell, Simon J.

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The Great Devonian Controversy : the Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists. by Rudwick, Martin J. S.

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Leaving the Cave : Evolutionary Naturalism in Social Scientific Thought. by Hutcheon, Pat Duffy

Table of Contents: “…Skinner""; ""Twenty-Four: Modern Evolutionary Theory: Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould""; ""Twenty-Five: Thomas Kuhn and the Crisis in Social Science""; ""Twenty-Six: Toward a Unified Social Science""; ""Appendix: Evolutionary Spiral""…”
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How the Weather Was by Kahn, Roger

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Time frames : the evolution of punctuated equilibria by Eldredge, Niles

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Latin American popular culture since independence : an introduction

Table of Contents: “…Piety and public space : the cemetery campaign in Veracruz, 1789-1810 / Pamela Voekel -- Church, Humboldt, and Darwin : the tension and harmony of art and science / Stephen Jay Gould -- Black kings, blackface carnival, and nineteenth-century origins of the tango / John Charles Chasteen -- Cartas y cartas, compadre -- : love and other letters from Río Frío / William E. …”
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Evolution : a Scientific American reader.

Table of Contents: “…Marshall -- The evolution of life on the Earth / Stephen Jay Gould -- An ancestor to call our own / Kate Wong -- Early Hominid fossils from Africa / Meave Leakey and Alan Walker -- Planet of the apes / David R. …”
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Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson -- The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould, Richard C. Lewontin -- Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith -- Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the coy female / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth Lloyd -- Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain / John Tooby, Leda Cosmides -- Evolutionary psychology: a critique / David J. …”
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The Encyclopedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day / 100 most influential scientists

Table of Contents: “…Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr; Stephen Jay Gould; Stephen W. Hawking; J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins; Steven Pinker; Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Index…”
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Arguing about Science - Bird & Ladyman. by Bird, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…; Introduction to Part One; 1 Karl PopperSCIENCE: CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS; 2 Adolf Grünbaum IS FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORYPSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC BY KARL POPPER'SCRITERION OF DEMARCATION?; 3 Stephen Jay Gould THE MISMEASURE OF MAN; 4 Thomas S. KuhnOBJECTIVITY, VALUE JUDGMENT, ANDTHEORY CHOICE; PART TWO Science, race and gender; Introduction to Part Two; 5 Sally HaslangerGENDER AND RACE: (WHAT) ARE THEY?…”
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The Oxford book of modern science writing / Modern science writing

Table of Contents: “…Edey, from Lucy -- 'Worm for a century, and all seasons' / Stephen Jay Gould -- John Tyler Bonner, from Life cycles -- Oliver Sacks, from Uncle Tungsten -- 'Seven wonders' / Lewis Thomas -- James Watson, from Avoid boring people -- Francis Crick, from What mad pursuit -- Lewis Wolpert, from The unnatural nature of science -- Julian Huxley, from Essays of a biologist -- 'Religion and science' / Albert Einstein -- Carl Sagan, from The demon-haunted world -- Richard Feynman, from The character of physical law -- Erwin Schrödinger, from What is life? …”
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Substance, judgment, and evaluation : seeking the worth of a liberal arts, core text education : selected papers from the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Text...

Table of Contents: “…""Rocks of Ages: A Critique of Stephen Jay Gould's Thesis on the Relationship Between Science and ReligionTeach the Science Not the Controversy: Charles Darwin, The Origin Of Species, and Intelligent Design; Pedagogical Models for Teaching Core Texts; Michelangelo and the Copernican Revolution; Teaching Humanities through The Milton Moment; Using Core Texts to Promote Students' Critical Thinking Skills; The Rule of St. …”
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The eye of the sandpiper : stories from the living world by Keim, Brandon, 1976-

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The evolution wars : a guide to the debates by Ruse, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Part 4: Biographies: Louis Agassiz -- Michael Behe -- Friedrich von Bernhardi -- William Jennings Bryan -- Edward Drinker Cope -- Georges Cuvier -- Martin Daly -- Clarence Darrow -- Erasmus Darwin -- Nicholas Davies -- Richard Dawkins -- William Dembski -- Daniel Dennett -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Ronald Fisher -- Jerry Fodor -- Brian Goodwin -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Peter and Rosemary Grant -- Asa Gray -- Ernst Haeckel -- John Burdon Sanderson Haldane -- William D. …”
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What about Darwin? : all species of opinion from scientists, sages, friends, and enemies who met, read, and discussed the naturalist who changed the world by Glick, Thomas F.

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert -- American novelist and feminist / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- English novelist / George Gissing -- English prime minister / William Gladstone -- American novelist / Ellen Glasgow -- English poet / Edmund Gosse -- American paleontologist / Stephen Jay Gould -- Scottish politician and author / Mountstuart E. …”
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