Wonderful life

Wonderful life

By
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould
1989 • 347 pages

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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166 books

Microhistory

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Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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19 books

Geology

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Ms. Adventure
Island on Fire
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain through its Geology
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Uranium

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17 books

Paleontology

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Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Monster's Bones
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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26 books

Geography

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A is for aloha
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History

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24 books

Evolutionary Biology

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First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
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Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood
Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
Your Inner Fish
Friendship

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18 books

Canada

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Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson
Dear Canada
The Melting Queen
Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
A Trail of Broken Dreams: The Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937

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118 books

Mathematics Science And Technology

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The Alchemy of Us
The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World
The Space Barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Systemic action research: A strategy for whole system change

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144 books

Nonfic Nature

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Wilderness and the American Mind
Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game
Gifts of the Crow
The Arrogance of Humanism
Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

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13 books

Evolution

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The Language of God
Wonderful life
Darwin's Doubt
Your Inner Fish
On the Origin of Species
Why Evolution Is True

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65 books

Nonfic Science

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Adam
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Memory, Brain, and Belief
The Selfish Gene
Cosmos
On the Origin of Species
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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12 books

Biology

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The Language of God
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
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Your Inner Fish
On the Origin of Species
Darwin's Doubt
Eternal Ephemera
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