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1.		Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time from Holt Paperbacks Price: $7.50 Customer Review: Dr. Shermer looks into the reasons why people persist in believing things even when those things are bizarre or even blatantly proven false. He examines the physiological issues at a level that the layman can understand. I highly recommend this book for people who find themselves constantly... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		The House on Maple Street: And Other Stories from Simon & Schuster Audio Price: $8.63 Customer Review: For a road trip, there is nothing like a good book.... on audio. Stephen and his wife, and other narrators, read the text with the appropriate nuances.... excellent product. And no one else can scare the heck out of you like Stephen King!	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.	[no image]	The Mismeasure of Man from W W Norton & Co Inc Price: $16.48 Customer Review: Jerry Pournelle has stated that Stephen J. Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man" wasn't science. In a way, I have to agree with Pournelle because the book doesn't do what science does, viz state a hypothesis and present data and arguments to support it. Rather, it debunks an entire field of study, namely... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $4.98 Customer Review: Beloved, clear, boundlessly enthusiastic Stephen Jay Gould tells us about the 570-million-years-old fossils of the Burgess Shale. This book is a mystery-adventure. The clues are a treasure trove of animal types: misunderstood, misnamed, dismissed--until a group of dedicated detectives reexamined the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin from Audio Literature Price: $17.50 Customer Review: Gould's examination of evolutionary trends is a tough read. Despite his efforts to lighten the book with humor, this one takes work for the non-scientist to comprehend fully. In essence, this is an examination of the theory of punctuated equilibrium: that speciation occurs in spurts of major genetic... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		In the Shadow of Man from Mariner Books Price: $3.38 Customer Review: In her own words, Jane Goodall writes of her landmark studies of wild chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania. Starting out in 1960, Goodall, a student of legendary anthropologist Louis Leakey, set out for Tanzania to set up the first long-term research study on chimpanzees in the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.		Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z from University of California Press Price: $24.93 Customer Review: Richard Milner's entry in the flood of books written for the Darwin bicentennial - Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z - is an uncommonly entertaining and literate introduction to the myriad aspects of the evolutionary paradigm that at once lays bare its history and, in its choice of content,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.		The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould from W.W. Norton & Co. Price: $19.37 Customer Review: The Richness of Life is a good overview of Stephen Jay Gould's writings, but the individual collections are better. He is a brilliant and original thinker, thought-provoking, and generally entertaining. My only comment that is less than superlative would be on his writing style, which unfortunately... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History from W W Norton & Co Inc Price: $150.96 Customer Review: Ever Since Darwin is Stephen Jay Gould's first book and is a collection of essays written in the mid-1970's for Natural History Magazine. It is easily accessible for the general reader and covers a range of topics related to Darwin's big idea. Interesting topics include: - The history of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $5.99 Customer Review: More essays by Stephen Jay Gould. They are brilliant, as always. And, as always, Gould's essays give me something to think about.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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