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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)
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9780226112923 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 2, 2002, cover price $35.00 | 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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Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject. Reprint.
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9780880642170 | Fromm Intl, April 1, 2000, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject.

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9780880642651 | Reprint edition (Fromm Intl, April 1, 2001), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject.

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This text is a metaphor for the way individuals and unpredictable events influence history. In response history, suggests the author, is the best model for evolution. The author explores the science of improbable outcomes in this wide ranging book written on the evolutionary theme.
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9780099893509 | New edition (Vintage Uk, February 1, 2001), cover price $15.40 | About this edition: This text is a metaphor for the way individuals and unpredictable events influence history.

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The collaborators of Finders, Keepers and Illuminations present photographed essays that consider such topics as the terrestrial names of oceanic creatures, the relativity of scale as seen with bird eggs, and humanity's genetic ape cousin. Original. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780609805862 | 1 edition (Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Photographs and essays affirm the authors' theory that science and art complement each other, and dispute the popular opinion that the two subjects clash in opposition.

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Includes excerpts from essays by Stephen Jay Gould, William H. Calvin, and Yves Coppens.
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9781879557499 | Audio Scholar, January 1, 2000, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Includes excerpts from essays by Stephen Jay Gould, William H.

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Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based (view table of contents)
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9780613181303 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $29.40 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based

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Product Description: Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, this book includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio. Contributors include Stephen Jay Gould, world-renowned biologist and best-selling science writer; James Ritter, editor of the Einstein papers, physicist, and historian of science; Michel Pastoureau, France's celebrated medieval historian; Joaquin Galarza, Mexican anthropologist and discoverer of Aztec pictograms as a writing system ("The Champollion of Aztec letters"); Christian Metz, internationally recognized semiologist and the founder of semiology of cinema; and literary scholars Jean-Michel Rabate, James Swenson, and Margery Arent Safir...read more
By Margery Arent Safir (editor) and Stephen Jay Gould (editor)
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9780791439746 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, this book includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio.

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Product Description: “An exciting, monumental, first-rate book devoted to a universal phenomenon whose time has come at last. Perhaps this is the art of the twenty-first century.”—Michael Bonesteel, The Outsider “A wonderful book…”—David Bowie “(A) fascinating, timely book...read more
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9780966427271 | Dilettante Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “An exciting, monumental, first-rate book devoted to a universal phenomenon whose time has come at last.

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Full-color reproductions by contemporary visionary artists complement a collection of provocative essays--by Stephen Jay Gould, the Dalai Lama, Roger Manley, Adam Parfrey, and others--on the inspired imagery reflecting the millennial obsession of visionary and outsider art. (view table of contents)
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9780966427264 | Dilettante Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Full-color reproductions by contemporary visionary artists complement a collection of provocative essays--by Stephen Jay Gould, the Dalai Lama, Roger Manley, Adam Parfrey, and others--on the inspired imagery reflecting the millennial obsession of visionary and outsider art.

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9780140869248 | Abridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, November 1, 1998), cover price $3.00

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Product Description: Stephen Jay Gould's essays are well known for their wit and explanatory power. Throughout the years, they have enlightened and entertained readers of Natural History magazine and other publications. The essays presented in this audio programme offer Gould's illuminating perspectives on several different topics dealing with evolution and extinction, including impact theory, punctuated equilibrium, natural selection and evolutionary progress...read more
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9781879557482 | Audio Scholar, August 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Stephen Jay Gould's essays are well known for their wit and explanatory power.

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9780316035286 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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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.
By Stephen Jay Gould and Zimbalist (narrator)
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9780787116453 | Unabridged edition (Dove Entertainment Inc, September 1, 1997), cover price $25.00 | 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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By Stephen Jay Gould and Rosamond Purcell (photographer)
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9780761108245 | Wal edition (Workman Pub Co, August 1, 1997), cover price $9.95

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Explores the unanswered questions of science, such as 'Are we alone in the universe?' and 'Can we unravel our genetic code?' (view table of contents)
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9780385480147, titled "Why Aren't Black Holes Black?: The Unanswered Questions at the Frontiers of Science" | Anchor Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Explores the unanswered questions of science, such as 'Are we alone in the universe?

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Amazon.com Review: The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a view in which humans are the inevitable pinnacle of evolutionary progress, instead of, as Stephen Jay Gould patiently argues, "a cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted...read more
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9780517708491 | Signed edition (Harmony Books, September 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based (view table of contents)
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9780393039726 | Rev sub edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based
9780393014891 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1981, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based

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9780393314250, titled "Mismeasure of Man" | Rev exp edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1996), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based
9780393310672 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Exposes the fatal flaws in the ranking of people according to their supposed gifts and limits by discussing the development of the theory of limits and by reanalyzing the data on which it is based

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More than two hundred full-color, high-quality maps, diagrams, and reconstructions, along with an up-to-date text, trace the geology of the earth from the Big Bang to the evolution of humans. Natural Science Main.
By Stephen Jay Gould (editor), Roger Osborne (editor) and D. H. Tarling (editor)
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9780805045529 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1996, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: More than two hundred maps, diagrams, and reconstructions assist in tracing the geology of the Earth from the Big Bang to the evolution of humans

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Product Description: An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a sweeping yet accessible chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.
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9780393967241 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1994, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: An illustrated natural history of the earth and its denizens combines paintings, drawings, and computer-generated images with a sweeping yet accessible chronicle of the world's variegated organisms and species.

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In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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9780393034165 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The author offers his insights on the disappearance of the Tahitian snail, the ecological crisis, the bent tail of an ichthyosaur, the evolution of the hearing bones, and more

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9780393311396 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the sixth volume of essays from Natural History magazine, the nation's foremost science writer discusses environmental spoliation and the massive extinction of the earth's species.

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A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science
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9780393017168 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1983), cover price $15.50 | About this edition: A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science

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A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science
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9780393311037 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays answers questions about key scientific concepts, focusing, in particular, on Darwin's theory of evolution, natural selection, and its impact on biology, natural history, and modern science

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Product Description: Most of us collect things, but seldom have entire collections been preserved. A few that did survive have fallen, figuratively, into the clutches of two of America's most innovative minds: photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould...read more
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9780393030549 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A noted paleontologist provides the text for this photographic study of eight different collections--from a collection of human artifacts belonging to Peter the Great to Agassy's fish collection--exploring what collections say about collectors.

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9780393310870 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1994), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Most of us collect things, but seldom have entire collections been preserved.

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