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9783034867733 | Reprint edition (Birkhauser, April 11, 2014), cover price $69.99

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780609605417, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalists Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Rev sub edition (Crown Pub, September 1, 1999), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millennium and its significance
9780609600764, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Random House Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The noted naturalist sheds new light on humankind's fascination with the approaching millennium, offering a collection of scientific and historical essays on the millennium and its significance

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9780674061644, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Revised edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: 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?

Miscellaneous:

9780609606100, titled "Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown" | Crown Pub, October 11, 1999, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780609601426, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | 1st edition (Harmony Books, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Essays cover a wide range of topics, including the nature of fossils, evolution, and biodiversity

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9780674061675, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Gould covers topics as diverse as episodes in the birth of paleontology to lessons from Britain’s four greatest Victorian naturalists.
9780609807552, titled "The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History" | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Essays cover a wide range of topics, including the nature of fossils, evolution, and biodiversity.

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9780787125172 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: In his latest collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it.
9780787125189 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 2000), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In his latest collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780609601433 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Essays from 'Natural History' magazine include writings on Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America.

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9780674061620 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: 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.
9781400048045 | 1 reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays from 'Natural History' magazine include writings on Charles Darwin, the methods of science versus those of the humanistic disciplines, Nabokov's butterfly research, and the author's grandfather's arrival in America.

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Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life

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9780517703946 | 1st edition (Harmony Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life

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9780674061613 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $20.00
9780609801406 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life

Miscellaneous:

9780307420770 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $15.95

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9781574533682 | Audio Literature, July 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life.
9780787111250 | Dove Entertainment Inc, August 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Argues against popular conceptions about the nature of progress and evolution, and shows how variety is the essence of life.

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Product Description: From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.

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9780517703939 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, January 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science

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9780674061606 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: From fads to fungus, baseball to beeswax, Gould always circles back to the great themes of time, change, and history, carrying readers home to the centering theme of evolution.
9780517888247 | Reprint edition (Crown Pub, January 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science

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9781574533422 | Audio Literature, February 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.
9780787107437 | Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.
9780787109158 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, January 1, 1996), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park' to the ethical challenges of science.

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9781439505700 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The renowned paleontologist and evolutionary biologist discusses topics ranging from Charles Darwin to Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the ethical challenges of science.

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Product Description: In his final book, 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.

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9780609601402 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.

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9780674061668 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 2011), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In his final book, 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.
9781400051533 | Reprint edition (Three Rivers Pr, March 1, 2004), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Draws on the philosophy of seventh century B.

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Product Description: "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 humane thinkers in the sciences...read more

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9780393022285 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1985), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Evolutionary theory in 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 .

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9780393303759 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1987, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Evolutionary theory in 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 .

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9781439510247 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "Gould himself is a rare and wonderful animal―a member of the endangered species known as the ruby-throated polymath.

Product Description: 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). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr...read more

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9780609601419 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them

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9780609804759 | Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787117924 | Abridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them.
9780787117917 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, October 1, 1998), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The latest collection of the popular paleontologist's essays from 'Natural History' magazine explores the puzzles and paradoxes both great and small inherent in the diversity of nature and humanity and how scientists grapple with them.

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9781439503843 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: 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).

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A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

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9780393029611 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

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9780393308570 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1992), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column 'This View of Life' from 'Natural History' magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature

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9781439508985 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.95

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Originally published as the central chapter in the late author's critically acclaimed study, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a critical challenge to a core tenet of Darwin's theory of evolution explores the nature of biological change and its influence on evolutionary patterns and processes. Original.

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9780674024441 | Belknap Pr, May 31, 2007, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Originally published as the central chapter in the late author's critically acclaimed study, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a critical challenge to a core tenet of Darwin's theory of evolution explores the nature of biological change and its influence on evolutionary patterns and processes.

Product Description: Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist. Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion. Through the years, the renowned paleontologist published numerous essays on the sport; these have now been collected in a volume alive with the candor and insight that characterized all of Gould's writing...read more

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9780224050425 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 15, 2004), cover price $32.30 | About this edition: Among Stephen Jay Gould's many gifts was his ability to write eloquently about baseball, his great passion.
9780393057553 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Essays on baseball share the author's love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, and the contradictions of being a lifelong Yankees fan with Red Sox season tickets.

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9780393325577 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays on baseball by the late evolutionary biologist and author of Ever Since Darwin shares his love of the national pastime as he reflects on the joys of opening day, childhood streetball, Mickey Mantle, the demise of the .

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9781435290471 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Science meets sport in this vibrant collection of baseball essays by the late evolutionary biologist.

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Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society. (view table of contents)

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9781591020202 | Prometheus Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays by prominent scientists, scholars, and educators on ways to transform science education in the United States and promote a more literate society.

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Edited by the award-winning late author of The Mismeasure of Man a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre on topics ranging from pathology to the boxing arena to growing up. Simultaneous. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Robert Atwan (editor) and Stephen Jay Gould (editor)

Hardcover:

9780618213887, titled "The Best American Essays 2002" | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 2002, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Edited by the award-winning late author of The Mismeasure of Man a new collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of the essay genre on topics ranging from pathology to the boxing arena to growing up.

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9780618049325 | Mariner Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Compiles the best literary essays of the year originally published in American periodicals

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The renowned media-savvy scientist and author of Ontogeny and Phylogeny takes on evolutionary theory in this substantial new treatment of a controversial subject and critiques of Darwinian theory. (view table of contents)

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9780674006133 | Belknap Pr, March 21, 2002, cover price $71.50 | About this edition: Presents a critique of classical Darwinism, covering its core elements, history, and origins, and offers a new structure of evolutionary thought.

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Seeks to resolve the gap between science and religion in a volume that explains how creation stories and evolutional theory can coexist, profiling historical leaders while explaining how each science defines the natural and moral world respectively. printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780345430090 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The nation's leading exponent of Darwinian evolution disentangles the perennial tug-of-war between science and religion, expounding a simple principle allowing them to coexist productively

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9780345450401 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, February 1, 2002), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Seeks to resolve the gap between science and religion in a volume that explains how creation stories and evolutional theory can coexist, profiling historical leaders while explaining how each science defines the natural and moral world respectively.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780787118570 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The nation's leading exponent of Darwinian evolution disentangles the perennial tug-of-war between science and religion, expounding a simple principle allowing them to coexist productively.

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The first major work on the mammoth elephant to place the creature squarely in its historical and biological context reveals new information about the animal and the science that grew up around its discovery. (view table of contents)
By Claudine Cohen, Stephen Jay Gould (foreword by) and William Rodarmor (trans)

Hardcover:

9780226112923 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 2, 2002, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Reveals new information about the mammoth elephant, and about the science that grew up around its discovery.

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Collects three of the French mathematician's classic works interpreting the philosophy of science and mathematics. (view table of contents)

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9780375758485 | Modern Library, October 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Collects three of the French mathematician's classic works interpreting the philosophy of science and mathematics.

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An illustrated natural history of the Earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.

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9780393050035 | Subsequent edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 2001), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the Earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.
9780393035575 | Ill edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1993), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines the paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species

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9780393321562 | 2 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the Earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.
9780393313154 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A lavishly illustrated history makes use of the best new research and delicate paintings and line drawings to examine the varied forms of life over the past half a billion years and their relationship to the environment.

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9780613914109, titled "Book Of Life: An Illustrated History Of The Evolution Of Life On Earth" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $45.15 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the Earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.

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