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Published by Three Rivers Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0609801406ISBN 13: 9780609801406
Seller: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.
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Published by Harmony, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: More Than Words, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.
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Published by Harvard University Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0674061616ISBN 13: 9780674061613
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1996
Seller: The Green Arcade, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In very good condition; slight rubbing to tips of outside corners and corners at top and bottom of spine; slight scuffing covers; light soiling outside edge of book; otherwise, clean and bright, binding tight. Special Advance Reader's Edition / Uncorrected Proof. 237 pages. ISBN: 0-517-70394-7 x 6 in.
Published by Random, 1997., 1997
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Near fine.
Published by Crown Publishers, NY, 1997
ISBN 10: 0609801406ISBN 13: 9780609801406
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. B&W Photographs/Graphs/Charts (illustrator). 1st Paperback Printing. Some marginalia, else textblock is clean and very tight. Mininmally shelf worn. 244p., including bibliography and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Published by Three Rivers Press,, 1997
Seller: Oberle, Bad Münstereifel, Germany
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Softcover. Condition: Gut. ; Paperback; 244pp; Zustand: gut; nur geringe Altersspuren; kein Besitzvermerk;
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1996
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Light to moderate foxing to outer page eges. No other issues. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1996
Seller: JB's Book Vault, Buffalo, WY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later Printing. Book is in FINE condition - bright covers & sound binding. Dust jacket is in FINE condition - bright, intact and whole. JEX 6/21.
Published by Harmony, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Flat signed by Stephen Jay Gould on front end page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription and blind stamp on front end and title pages. Some tanning to page ends. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.
Published by New York: Harmony Books 1996., 1996
ISBN 10: 0787111252ISBN 13: 9780787111250
Seller: de Wit Books, HUTCHINSON, KS, U.S.A.
Book
Fine, unmarked hardback; DJ-Fine. 244 pp.
Published by Harmony Books, 1996, 1996
Seller: First Choice Books, Coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
HB--FN, black cloth cover with black cloth spine. DJ--VG; contains charts, tables, diagrams; bibliography; index;
Published by Harmony Books, 1996
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Harmony, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 244pp. Beautiful First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of bumping at spine ends but very minor. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($25.00), has some fairly mild wear to spine ends. A bit of typical discoloration to the gold of the titling on front panel. Still, fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy.
Published by Harmony, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Book Signed
hardcover. Condition: Like New. *Autographed by author.* Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Signed.
Published by Harmony Books/New York, 1996
Seller: ReadAmericaBooks, Holland, MI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 244 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: As New/As New. First Ed./First Printing, 1st Edition/1st printing. Illustrations in b/w throughout. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.
Published by Harmony, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Near fine in fine dustwrapper. Stamp on front end paper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1996
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Like new, jacket is price clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Illustrated., 1996
Seller: Waverly & Rugby Books, Pinehurst, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. First printing. Hardcover. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.
Published by Harmony Books, 1997, 1997
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
1st edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a page tipped in by the publisher, with an ÒAutographed EditionÓ sticker on the front panel of the dj Fine/fine.
Published by Harmony Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very small sig in ink on fep.
Published by Harmony, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Flat signed by author on front end page. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Owner's name on front end page. Light wear. Signed.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Published by S. Fisher, 1998
ISBN 10: 3100278070ISBN 13: 9783100278074
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 287 pages. Translated from the English. First published in the United States in 1996. First German edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy from the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould.
Published by Harmony Books, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. 1st. Signed edition, harcover with spine stamped in gold Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket.
Published by Harmony Books, New York, 1996
Seller: Nightingale Books, Stoughton, MA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. Exploration of our misperceptions about the nature of progress, the nature of excellence & the nature of nature. Illustrated with charts & line drawings. SIGNED by the Author on second front endpaper. Science, Natural History, Signed. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Harmony Books New York 1996, 1996
Seller: Pali, Roma, RM, Italy
Hard Cover.in dj. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 8vo, hardcover in dj, ex-library, but internally good, 264pp. Synopsis: Few would question the truism that humankind is the crowning achievement of evolution; that the defining thrust of life's history yields progress over time from the primitive and simple to the more advanced and complex; that the disappearance of .400 hitting in baseball is a fact to be bemoaned; or that identifying an existing trend can be helpful in making important life decisions. Few, that is, except Stephen Jay Gould who, in his new book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, proves that all of these intuitive truths are, in fact, wrong. "All of these mistaken beliefs arise out of the same analytical flaw in our reasoning, our Platonic tendency to reduce a broad spectrum to a single, pinpointed essence," says Gould. "This way of thinking allows us to confirm our most ingrained biases that humans are the supreme being on this planet; that all things are inherently driven to become more complex; and that almost any subject can be expressed and understood in terms of an average." In Full House, Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world (and the history of life) is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation rather than as an isolated "thing" and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this "full house" of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing. When approached in such a way, the disappearance of .400 hitting becomes a cause for celebration, signaling not a decline in greatness but instead an improvement in the overall level of play in baseball; trends become subject to suspicion, and too often, only a tool of those seeking to advance a particular agenda; and the "Age of Man" (a claim rooted in hubris, not in fact) more accurately becomes the "Age of Bacteria." "The traditional mode of thinking has led us to draw many conclusions that don't make satisfying sense," says Gould. "It tells us that .400 hitting has disappeared because batters have gotten worse, but how can that be true when record performances have improved in almost any athletic activity?" In a personal eureka!, Gould realized that we were looking at the picture backward, and that a simple conceptual inversion would resolve a number of the paradoxes of the conventional view. While Full House deftly reveals the shortcomings of the popular reasoning we apply to everyday life situations, Gould also explores his beloved realm of natural history as well. Whether debunking the myth of the successful evolution of the horse (he grants that the story still deserves distinction, but as the icon of evolutionary failure); presenting evidence that the vaunted "progress of life" is really random motion away from simple beginnings, not directed impetus toward complexity; or relegating the kingdoms of Animalai and Plantae to their proper positions on the genealogical chart for all of life (as mere twigs on one of the three bushes), Full House asks nothing less than that we reconceptualize our view of life in a fundamental way. Review: The human mind has a trusty device for simplifying a complex world: reduce to averages and identify trends. Although valuable, the risk is that we ignore variations and end up with a skewed view of reality. In evolutionary terms, the result is a view in which humans are the inevitable pinnacle of evolutionary progress, instead of, as Stephen Jay Gould patiently argues, "a cosmic accident that would never arise again if the tree of life could be replanted." The implications of Gould's argument may threaten certain of our philosophical and religious foundations but will in the end provide us with a clearer view of, and a greater appreciation for, the complexities of our world. Ex-Library.
Published by Harmony, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Stated First Edition. ; 9.10 X 6.40 X 1.10 inches; 244 pages.
Published by Harmony, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 244 pages.
Published by Harmony, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0517703947ISBN 13: 9780517703946
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Edges have light speckling. Jacket has light scuffing. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches; 244 pages.