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Life's Grandeur: Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (Hardcover)
by Stephen Jay Gould (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape (7 Nov 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224041320
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224041324
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.9 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 992,831 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Gould discusses the history of life, of music, sport and other human achievements in his search for the meaning of excellence.

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'Reading Gould is not merely a pleasure but an education and a chronicle of the times' Observer --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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2.0 out of 5 stars rather disappointing for Gould, 22 Feb 1999
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This review is from: Life's Grandeur: Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (Paperback)
I like Gould's collections of essays a lot. This "full-length book" however was rather disappointing. The main problem it suffers from is redundancy. First of all it is "internally" redundant, in the sense that Gould will stress certain points again and again. It's as if he's no too sure about the readers' intellectual capacities. Some good editing could have made this book half as short. Secondly, it's also "externally" redundant: a lot of what is in here can be found in essays in one of his excellent collections (e.g. if you've read the essays he wrote about his bout with cancer or about how batters in baseball haven't gotten worse, then don't bother reading this book). If you've never read Gould and you want to read something by him, I suggest you read one of the collections of essays (e.g. The Flamingo's Smile, or Bully for Brontosaurus)
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