The Chronicle of Higher Education

Science Can Help Cure University Presses

By PETER J. DOUGHERTY

A little over a year ago, I strode into my local bookstore, Micawber Books, on Nassau Street in Princeton, and peered into the future. Stacked high above the novels, biographies, and popular histories on the main table were copies of the late Stephen Jay Gould's last work, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Handsomely produced, lavishly illustrated, reasonably...

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