I Have Landed

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Jay Gould was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow! he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books! including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow! Time's Cycle (both from Harvard). Klappentext As always in his popular writing! Gould conveys the ideas that science professionals exchange among themselves! minus only the technical jargon. In the title essay! he details his grandfather's journey from Hungary to America! and in a moving epilogue that has been hailed as a powerful testament! Gould writes about September 11. Zusammenfassung Gould's final essay collection is based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine--exactly 300 consecutive essays! with never a month missed! published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he ever published.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Jay Gould
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9780674061620
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06162-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Science, SCIENCE / Essays