The Lying Stones of Marrakech

By - Stephen Jay Gould

Floor - Floor 2

Published - Vintage, London, 2001

ISBN 10 - 0099285835

ISBN 13 - 9780099285830

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Natural history

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 508 GOU

Physical Description - 372 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 20 cm

Notes - Includes indexes

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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.

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