First published in 1988, a collection of review articles on modern science, in which the author provides fresh insight into geology and evolution, criticises the misuse of genetics for political purposes, and explores the uses and abuses of scientific methods.

An Urchin In the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas

Science & Math

STEPHEN JAY GOULD

Biological Sciences

Collins, Harvill

The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History.[23 essays].

Harmony Books+

Questioning the Millennium

Astronomy & Space Science

Vintage

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

Writing with characteristic bracing intelligence and clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of having to choose between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for the golden resolution that accords dignity and distinction to both? In elaborating and exploring his thought-provoking concept, Gould delves into the history of science with stories of figures as Galileo and Darwin, and concludes that science defines the natural world, and religion our moral world.

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the late 1970s up until till his death in 2002, his monthly essay in Natural History and his full-length books bridged the yawning gap between science and wider culture. In this fascinating new collection of essays from Natural History, Gould applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering. The essays brilliantly illuminate and elucidate the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that have fuelled the enterprise of science and opened our eyes to a world of unexpected wonders.

The Lying Stones of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Mathematics

Completed shortly before his death, this is the last work of science from the most celebrated popular science writer in the world. In characteristic form, Gould weaves the ideas of some of Western society's greatest thinkers, from Bacon to Galileo to E. O. Wilson, with the uncelebrated ideas of lesser-known yet pivotal intellectuals. He uses their ides to undo an assumption born in the seventeenth century and continuing to this day, that science and the humanities stand in opposition. Gould uses the metaphor of the hedgehog - who goes after one thing at a measured pace, systematically investigating all; the fox - skilled at many things, intuitive and fast; and the magister's pox - a censure from the Catholic Church involved in Galileo's downfall: to illustrate the different ways of responding to knowledge - in a scientific, humanistic or fearful way. He argues that in fact each would benefit by borrowing from the other.

The Hedgehog@@ the Fox and the Magister's Pox : Mending and Minding the Misconceived Gap Between Science and the Humanities

History

Europe

Vintage Books USA

The Richness Of Life

<p>The title is a pun, and as always with Gould, the joke has a point that illustrates the largest pattern of life's history. For millennia the animals that populated the earth had four toes on each foot, or six. If evolution had taken a tiny shift - if our ancestors had inherited a couple of genes in a different form - our canonical number, based on our fingers and toes, might be eight instead of ten. This is just one of the oddities of history that Gould deploys in this wonderfully readable book.</p>

Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History

Vintage Books

<p>In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. Further, if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the random but unfathomably rich source of 'endless forms most beautiful and wonderful'.</p>

Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of R

The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Penguin Science)

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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