Stephen Jay Gould
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Stephen Jay Gould teaches Geology, Biology, and the History of Science at Harvard and is the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at NYU. His latest book is The Lying Stones of Marrakech. (October 2001)
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October 4, 2001: The Man Who Set the Clock Back
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
October 22, 1998: The Man Who Invented Natural History
Buffon by Jacques Roger, translated by Sarah Lucille Bonnefoi
October 9, 1997: Evolutionary Psychology: An Exchange
August 14, 1997: 'Darwinian Fundamentalism': An Exchange
June 26, 1997: Evolution: The Pleasures of Pluralism
June 12, 1997: Darwinian Fundamentalism
April 4, 1996: Why Darwin?
Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne
October 5, 1995: The Case for the Kid (letter)
April 20, 1995: Great Sport (letter)
March 2, 1995: Good Sports & Bad
Ball Four by Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Schecter
My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb, by Al Stump
Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump, foreword by Jimmie Reese
Cobb A film written and directed by Ron Shelton
Matty: An American Hero, Christy Mathewson and the New York Giants by Ray Robinson
Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams by Ed Linn
'I Ain't An Athlete, Lady...': My Well-Rounded Life and Times by John Kruk, by Paul Hagen
Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball by Mark Ribowsky
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff
The Meaning of Nolan Ryan by Nick Trujillo
October 20, 1994: So Near and Yet So Far
The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind by Erik Trinkaus, by Pat Shipman
In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins by Christopher Stringer, by Clive Gamble
November 4, 1993: Baseball: Joys and Lamentations
My Life As A Fan by Wilfrid Sheed
Fridays With Red: A Radio Friendship by Bob Edwards
The Era, 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn
The Gospel According to Casey: Casey Stengel's Inimitable, Instructional, Historical Baseball Book by Ira Berkow, by Jim Kaplan
O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto edited by Tom Peyer, edited by Hart Seely
August 12, 1993: Dinomania
Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Michael Crichton, by David Koepp
The Making of Jurassic Park by Don Shay, by Jody Duncan
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
January 14, 1993: 'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange
November 19, 1992: The Confusion over Evolution
The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today by Helena Cronin
The Miner's Canary by Niles Eldredge
On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions by Peter Douglas Ward
November 5, 1992: Dreams That Money Can Buy
The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story by Peter Lefcourt
Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella
The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday by Luke Salisbury
Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime by Andrew Zimbalist
The Diamond Revolution: The Prospects for Baseball After the Collapse of Its Ruling Class by Neil J. Sullivan
The Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter C. Bjarkman
Lost Ballparks: A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields by Lawrence S. Ritter
The Negro Baseball Leagues: A Photographic History Chartwell Books, 110 Enterprise Avenue, Secaucus, New Yersey, 07094; Amereon Ltd., P.O. Box 1200, Mattituck, New York, 11952.) by Phil Dixon, by Patrick J. Hannigan
Baseball: The Perfect Game Photographs by Danielle Weil, Introduction by David Halberstam, text by Peter Richmond
October 24, 1991: The H and Q of Baseball
A Whole Different Ball Game: The Sport and Business of Baseball by Marvin Miller
Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures edited by Dick Johnson, text by Glenn Stout
My Favorite Summer 1956 by Mickey Mantle, by Phil Pepe
The Home Run Heard 'Round the World: The Dramatic Story of the 1951 Giants–Dodgers Pennant Race by Ray Robinson
June 13, 1991: The Birth of the Two-Sex World
Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur
October 11, 1990: The Virtues of Nakedness
Baseball: The People's Game by Harold Seymour
Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball by George F. Will
When the Cheering Stops: Former Major Leaguers Talk about Their Game and Their Lives by Lee Heiman, by Dave Weiner, by Bill Gutman
January 18, 1990: Down on the Farm
From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age by Donald O. Henry
January 19, 1989: The Tragedy of Aids (letter)
October 27, 1988: Mighty Manchester
Infinite in All Directions by Freeman J. Dyson
August 18, 1988: The Streak of Streaks
Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41 by Michael Seidel
March 3, 1988: Pussycats and the Owl
The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age by Harriet Ritvo
One Man's Owl by Bernd Heinrich
June 25, 1987: Animals and Us
In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human–Animal Relationships by James Serpell
Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name by Vicki Hearne
Muir Among the Animals: The Wildlife Writings of John Muir edited by Lisa Mighetto
The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall
September 25, 1986: Cardboard Darwinism
Vaulting Ambition by Philip Kitcher
Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Females of the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom by Bettyann Kevles
February 27, 1986: A Triumph of Historical Excavation
The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists by Martin J.S. Rudwick
August 15, 1985: Mysteries of the Panda
The Giant Pandas of Wolong by George B. Schaller, by Hu Jinchu, by Pan Wenshi, by Zhu Jing
August 16, 1984: Between You and Your Genes
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature by R.C. Lewontin, by Steven Rose, by Leon J. Kamin
March 29, 1984: Triumph of a Naturalist
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock by Evelyn Fox Keller
November 24, 1983: Thwarted Genius
Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just by Kenneth R. Manning
July 21, 1983: Calling Dr. Thomas
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher by Lewis Thomas
June 30, 1983: Genes on the Brain
Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind by Charles J. Lumsden, by Edward O. Wilson
March 3, 1983: Utopia (Limited)
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture by Fritjof Capra
April 15, 1982: Will Man Become Obsolete?
The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe by Robert Jastrow
February 4, 1982: The Quack Detector
Science: Good, Bad and Bogus by Martin Gardner
May 14, 1981: Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion
Basin and Range by John McPhee
The Earth Generated and Anatomized by William Hobbs, edited by Roy Porter
January 22, 1981: The Ghost of Protagoras
The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner
Man, the Promising Primate by Peter J. Wilson
December 18, 1980: What Is Intelligence? (letter)
November 20, 1980: In an Evolutionary Crucible
Galapagos: Islands Lost in Time by Tui De Roy Moore
October 23, 1980: Jensen and Bias: An Exchange
May 1, 1980: Jensen's Last Stand
Bias in Mental Testing by Arthur R. Jensen
January 24, 1980: The Middle Way
Advice to a Young Scientist by P.B. Medawar
October 11, 1979: Dreamer
Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
August 16, 1979: Darwin Vindicated!
Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists by Loren Eiseley
May 31, 1979: The Politics of Sociobiology (letter)
May 17, 1979: Exultation and Explanation
The Kindly Fruits of the Earth: Recollections of an Embryo Ecologist by G. Evelyn Hutchinson
An Introduction to Population Ecology by G. Evelyn Hutchinson
September 28, 1978: Heroes in Nature
A Species of Eternity by Joseph Kastner
April 20, 1978: Koestler's Solution
Janus: A Summing Up by Arthur Koestler
Books by Stephen Jay Gould
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)
Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap between Science and the Humanities (2003)
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History (2002)
Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet (2000)
The Lying Stones of Marrakesh: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History (2000)
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (1999)
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History (1998)
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown (1997)
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996)
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History (1995)
On Evolution [interactive Multimedia] (1994)
Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (1993)
The Book of Life (1993)
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (1991)
The Individual in Darwins World: Second Edinburgh Medal Address (1990)
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (1989)
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Ecological Time (1987)
An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas (1987)
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History (1985)
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (1983)
The Mismeasure of Man (1981)
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (1980)
The Evolution of Gryphaea (1980)
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (1979)
Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977)