Harvard University Press has just reiussed the collections of Steve Gould’s essays, and the books together form a nice mosaic:
They add:
And, if you see a little room to grow in that mosaic, you’re not wrong. More to come!
h/t: Sophie Roell
The HUP Gould mosaic
October 6, 2011 • 1:28 pm
I subscribed to Natural History magazine for years and read all the early essays. Then I bought the paperbacks and read them again. Then Gould got into nasty and long lasting feud with E. O. Wilson’s sociobiology and anyone who espoused any version thereof. After that Gould’s essays lapsed into screed and repetition. I’ll be investing my time and money in other endeavors.
Well, as they say, opinions are like…something. Everybody’s got one. Personally, I liked Gould from beginning to end.
What kind of person stores their books like that? I prefer shelves. Yes, that’s a nice gimmicky selling point. But some book collections have an image that builds up on the books bound side, so that on a bookshelf, it’s all cute and stuff.
Maybe these have that, too.
And it won’t be any use to book stores either will it?
That would be difficult to view on my Kindle.
Cool.Had I been the designer with something similar in mind (spare the world of this), I’d have been more than tempted to consider both a geology and a biological mosaic based on Darwin, a splendid geologist and biologist and Gould who was mostly (?)a paleontolgist/biologist.
Do the books form a new drawing, or is the publisher reproducing an existing drawing?
Moths?! Why’d it have to be moths?!
Snails would have been more appropriate.
Damn you, genius marketing people!!!