Welcome to A Quiet Stand of Alders, the website of Stanley Rice, a science educator and writer. If you care passionately about the natural world and its evolutionary history, this website is for you.
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What Do You Do with Your Scientific Knowledge?
Scientific knowledge is not just a private pleasure. It is something to be shared. ...
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Scientifically Thinking: How to Liberate Your Mind, Solve the World's Problems, and Embrace the Beauty of Science
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2018.
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Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
New York: Facts on File, 2011.
Life of Earth: Portrait of a Beautiful, Middle-Aged, Stressed-Out Planet
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2011.
(Mandarin Chinese edition - Taiwan: BWP 2011)
Green Planet - Now in paperback & Kindle ebook!
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Encyclopedia of Evolution
New York: Facts on File, 2007
Essays
Archived essays that appeared on this website in 2008-2012.
New essays can be found on Stan's blogs:
Honest Ab (evolution and related scientific and social topics)
Republican Climate (politics)
Teachers
Would you like your students to be actively involved citizens? Maybe you can get them started by having them write letters to tobacco corporations protesting their marketing of deadly products. Click here for instructions that I provide my students for this extra credit project.
Click here for information about discounted or complimentary desk copies and examination copies of books used as textbooks, from Random House Academic Services.