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Eight Little Piggies :Reflections in Natural History
Eight Little Piggies :Reflections in Natural History
paperback
Published:
1 February, 2007
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099507444 |
| ISBN10 | 0099507447 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 331 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 29 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Miraculously good * The Times *
Remarkable... Gould takes his readers on tough-minded rambles across the visible surface of things... extraordinary * Guardian *
Gould has a talent for making the scientific, and particularly the revolutionary, interesting and striking * Sunday Times *
A lovely mixture of bizarre facts, nice arguments, clever insights into the workings of evolution and a quality of writing that can make your skin prickle... Gould has given us a feast * Nature *
Rather than serving up his science cold, Gould invariably puts a spin on it, taking his readers down the innumerable byways of history, literature and personal anecdote along the route to his theoretical conclusions * Independent on Sunday *
Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times * Observer *
The most readable of scientists * Financial Times *
One of the best essayists in the business. He uses his wide background knowledge as a bridge to entice non-scientists into sharing the excitement of scientific discovery and the curious, convoluted path of new ideas through history * Scotsman *
Few writers of popular science have given more pelasure to more readers than Stephen Jay Gould...He packs a clout few science writers can match * New York Times Book Review *
Who could resist a title like that - and knowing the author, who wouldn't surmise that Gould...demonstrat{es} that five fingers and five toes are not the primordial/canonical mammalian standard...Essays that reveal Gould in midlife, as passionate and articulate as ever, but older and wiser * Kirkus Reviews *
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Author's Bio
Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of geology at Harvard and the curator for invertebrate palaeontology in the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He died in May 2002.