Gould: 657 books

Pons Asinorum Or The Future of Nonsense George Edinger and E J C Neep Originally published in 1929. "A most entertaining essay, rich in quotation from the old masters of clownship’s craft." Saturday Review The author maintains that true nonsense...

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin,...

The race for the White House in 1968 was a watershed event in American politics. In this brilliantly succinct narrative analysis, Lewis L. Gould shows how the events of that tumultuous year changed the way Americans felt about politics and their national leaders; how Republicans used the skills they...

Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of America’s preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wilson against Charles Evan Hughes emerges as a clear template for the partisan differences of the modern era. The 1916 election dramatically enacted the...

"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."—James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian...

Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains...

Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor...

Contents A Book of Ghosts The Book of Were-Wolves Curious Myths of the Middle Ages Cornish Characters and Strange Events Curiosities of Olden Times Bladys of the Stewponey In the Roar of the Sea Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The...

Cheap Jack Zita written by S. Baring-Gould who was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. This book was published in 1896. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While...

J. Glenn Gould interprets the atonement that took place on the Cross in his work The Precious Blood of Christ. The book first started as a lecture series and was then written down for publication. Gould "quotes from Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans, and Wesleyans" as it is his belief that no one theory...

As fire is to prairie or water to fish, so is basketball part of the natural environment in Indiana. Round ball, or Hoosier Hysteria is so much a part of the state’s heritage that many people believe basketball was invented in Indiana. Naismith’s game is a virtual religion in the state. While...

**"... a must-read for anyone working in any form of engagement ..." ** "I love every model in this book." – B. Joseph Pine II, author of The Experience Economy (Harvard Business Review Press)  "Relationships matter. In the early days of Twitter we did all...

This book breaks fresh ground in the most challenging aspect of economics and economic history – the nature of economic growth. Professor Gould considers a wide range of theories about growth and its causes, and examines these theories in the light of modern economic history. The first chapter...

Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of behavioral data that can tell us a great deal about how the animals draw from these neural...