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  • Wonderful Life

    The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

    "[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book ReviewHigh in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Meditation for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Meditation in Daily Life

    by Jay Lorin ...
    Narrated by Stephen M Gillikin ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 30 min

    Meditation for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Meditation in Daily Life ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits.Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dinosaur in a Haystack

    Reflections in Natural History

    Unabridged

    18 hours 20 min

    For more than twenty-five years, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote a column called "The View of Life" for Natural History magazine. More than thirty entries from that column comprise this collection, which covers topics from dinosaurs to baseball and nearly everything in between related to natural history and evolution. Among the essays included here are "A Humongous Fungus among Us," "The ... Read more

    $55.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sinking of the Titanic

    Eyewitness Accounts from Survivors

    "I ran out on the deck and then I could see ice. It was a veritable sea of ice and the boat was rocking over it. I should say that parts of the iceberg were eighty feet high, but it had been broken into sections, probably by our ship." "There fell on the ear the most appalling noise that ever human ear listened to — the cries of hundreds of our fellow-beings struggling in the icy-cold water, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rocks of Ages

    Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

    "People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. . . . I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand why the two enterprises should experience any conflict." So states internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould in the simple yet profound ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Condensed Wisdom of Herb Fitch Volume One

    The Silver Highway to Redemption

    In 1988 Herb Fitch wrote to Stephen and Lynn Jay about his intent to take four years and write four books. This did not come to pass before his transition on June 13, 1996, but a seed was planted that left the Jays with a deep desire to fulfill Herb’s wishes. In the following years, they condensed his manuscripts and tapes, adding photos, letters, journal entries, and descriptions of their ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Ever Since Darwin

    Reflections in Natural History

    More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science.Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

  • Questioning the Millennium

    A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

    In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium.In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life magazine marking the century's midpoint, Stephen Jay Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millennium. In this beautiful inquiry into ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

    More Reflections in Natural History

    "Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it."—P. B. Medawar, New York Review of BooksWith sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle

    Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time

    Series Book 2 - The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
    Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould’s command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field.In Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle his subject is nothing ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Lying Stones Of Marrakech

    Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD