| Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History Contributor(s): Gould, Stephen Jay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393311392 ISBN-13: 9780393311396 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1994 Annotation: Acclaimed science writer Gould explores continuity in relation to environmental deterioration and the potential massive extinction of the earth's species. The sixth volume in a series of essays begun in 1974 and first published in Natural History magazine. Author lectures. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
| Dewey: 575.001 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 5.54" W x 8.34" (0.96 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Among scientists who write, no one illuminates as well as Stephen Jay Gould doesthe wonderful workings of the natural world. Now in a new volume of collected essays--his sixth since Ever Since Darwin--Gould speaks of the importance of unbroken connections within our own lives and to our ancestralgenerations. Along with way, he opens to us the mysteries of fish tails, frog calls, and other matters, and shows once and for all why we must take notice when a seemingly insignificant creature is threatened, like the land snail Partula from Moorea, whose extinction he movingly relates. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gould, Stephen Jay: - Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship. |