An Urchin in the Storm; Essays About Books and Ideas
by Gould, Stephen Jay
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0393305376
- ISBN 13
- 9780393305371
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company [0-393-30537-6] 1987. (Trade paperback) 255pp. Very good. Notes, diagrams, illustrations, index. The front cover has a minor discoloration from a removed sticker and the spine is faded. "Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould explands on geology, biological determinism, 'cardboard Darwinism,' and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection". (Ideas, Darwinism, Determinism, Essays, Evolution, Geology, Ideas, Natural History, Science).
Synopsis
An Urchin in the Storm is a volume of collected essays from paleontologist and well-known science writer Stephen Jay Gould. All but one of the essays had originally appeared in The New York Review of Books.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152937
- Title
- An Urchin in the Storm; Essays About Books and Ideas
- Author
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0393305376
- ISBN 13
- 9780393305371
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Ideas, Darwinism, Determinism, Essays, Evolution, Geology, Ideas, Natural History, Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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