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Gould was recently honored with a no-strings grant for $200,000 over the next five years by the MacArthur Foundation. One of his earlier books, "The Panda's Thumb," won an American Book Award for science...
...book reads surprisingly smoothly, despite its heavy technical content. Gould, who won the 1981 American Book Award for Science for his collection of essays called The Panda's Thumb, gracefully mixes statistics, technical terminology and anecdotes to make for an eminently comprehensible volume...
...years later, he published his first collection of the monthly essays he still writes for Natural History Magazine. Entitled Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, the book established Gould as a writer of considerable appeal outside of the scientific community. He published another essay collection in 1980, The Panda's Thumb, which won the American Book Award and broadened his audience even further. Gould is now, according to an executive at his publishing house, W.W. Norton, one of the company's "most valuable" authors...
...Panda Goes Acourting
...offer my un-koalafied praise for Chia-Chia's objective report of his recent trip from London [March 16]. His cool, responsible account was welcome counterpoint to the media-induced panda-monium surrounding the case. Certainly such detached testimony makes the entire situation much more bearable...