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The Hedgehog, The Fox, And The Magister’s Pox : Mending The Gap Between Science And The Humanities

  • The Hedgehog, The Fox, And The Magister's Pox : Mending The Gap Between Science And The Humanities

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 2003

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    In his final book and his first full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q175.55 .G68 2003  AVAILABLE

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I Have Landed : The End Of A Beginning In Natural History

  • I Have Landed : The End Of A Beginning In Natural History

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 2002

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    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. 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. 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. 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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH45.5 .G725 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory

  • The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002

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    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 vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH366.2 .G663 2002  AVAILABLE

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The Lying Stones Of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections In Natural History

  • The Lying Stones Of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections In Natural History

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 2000

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    Part II discusses the greatest conjunction of a time, a subject, and an assemblage of amazing people in the history of natural history: the late-eighteenth to the early-nineteenth century in France, when a group that included some of the most exceptional intellects of the millennium–Georges Buffon, Antoine Lavoisier, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck–invented the scientific study of natural history in an age of revolution. Part V, on scientific subjects with more obvious and explicit social consequences (and often unacknowledged social origins as well), also uses biography, but in a different way, to link past stories with present realities–to convey the lesson that claims for objectivity based on pure discovery often replay episodes buried in history, and prove that our modern certainties flounder within the same complexities of social context and mental blockage. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH45.5 .G74 2000  AVAILABLE

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Rocks Of Ages : Science And Religion In The Fullness Of Life

  • Rocks Of Ages : Science And Religion In The Fullness Of Life

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Ballantine Pub. Group, 1999

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    “People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. 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. In elaborating and exploring this thought-provoking concept, Gould delves into the history of science, sketching affecting portraits of scientists and moral leaders wrestling with matters of faith and reason. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BL240.2 .G68 1999  AVAILABLE

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Leonardo’s Mountain Of Clams And The Diet Of Worms : Essays On Natural History

  • Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams And The Diet Of Worms : Essays On Natural History

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 1998

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    Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould’s popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH81 .G67323 1998  AVAILABLE

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Questioning The Millennium : A Rationalist’s Guide To A Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

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Full House : The Spread Of Excellence From Plato To Darwin

  • Full House : The Spread Of Excellence From Plato To Darwin

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 1996

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    In Full House, Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world (and the history of life) is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation rather than as an isolated “thing” and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing. or relegating the kingdoms of Animalai and Plantae to their proper positions on the genealogical chart for all of life (as mere twigs on one of the three bushes), Full House asks nothing less than that we reconceptualize our view of life in a fundamental way. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH366.2 .G6593 1996  AVAILABLE

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The Historical Atlas Of The Earth : A Visual Exploration Of The Earth’s Physical Past

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Dinosaur In A Haystack : Reflections In Natural History

  • Dinosaur In A Haystack : Reflections In Natural History

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    Stephen Jay Gould

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    Book, 1st ed, Harmony Books, 1995

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    Award-winning, bestselling author, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould takes the art of the essay to an unprecedented height of excellence in this vibrant new collection of writings on science and natural history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QH366.2 .G659 1995  AVAILABLE

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The Book Of Life

  • The Book Of Life

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    general editor, Stephen Jay Gould ; contributing scientists and illustrators, Peter Andrews … [et al.]

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    Book, W.W. Norton, 1993

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    The Book of Life uses an exemplary fusion of art and science to tell the story of life on earth. The Book of Life explains how mammals, having survived at least one of these disasters–the impact of a massive comet–luckily inherited the earth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     OVERSIZE (UPPER)  QH325 .B65 1993  AVAILABLE

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Eight Little Piggies : Reflections In Natural History

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Between Home And Heaven : Contemporary American Landscape Photography From The Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation Collection Of The National Museum Of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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The Mismeasure Of Man

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Bully For Brontosaurus : Reflections In Natural History

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