Reason and Experience: The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Karl von Linne
University of California Press, June 1979. Hardcover.
University of California Press, June 1979. Hardcover.
Dover Publications, Inc., (1972). Hardcover. 312 pages. First published in 1932. A 'detailed study of the different rates of growth of parts of the body relative to the body as a whole' -- from the rear cover.
MIT Press, January 1968. Trade Paperback.
Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 201 pages. German text. Gutmann (1935-1997) founded the so-called Frankfurt Theory of Evolution (also called Critical Evolutionary Theory and Organism-Centered Theory). His work examined life from an engineering perspective, with much emphasis on hydrolics and fluid-filled cavities. Gutmann was very influential in German.....
Nauka, 1974. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Author's surname also transliterated Kokshayskiy and Kokshaiskii. 245 pages. Kokshaysky's work on bird flight are widely cited. This original Russian edition is uncommon in the US. OCLC 14118477 (11 copies). First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author.....
Nauka, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 274 pages. Text in Russian. A study of the Lamarck and Darwin's theories of the inheritance of acquired traits. The author was a corresponding member of the AcadƩmie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. One copy recorded in OCLC, in Paris. First edition (first printing). A near.....
Akademiia Nauk Estonskoi SSR, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 236 pages. Summaries of conference papers on topics in evolution, in Russian with briefer English descriptions. Table of contents in Russian and English. OCLC records four copies, three in the US (Harvard, University of Chicago, University of Texas at Austin). First edition.....
Yale University Press, January 1970. Trade Paperback. "Because those who come after us may not be like us, or because those like us may not come after us, or because after a time there may be none to come after us, mankind must now set to work to insure that.....
The Teaching Company, (2014). Trade Paperback. 172-page Course Guidebook, plus 4-disc DVD set containing 24 30-minute lectures. DVD set in original case plus the guidebook. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). DVDs gently used in a fine case.
The Teaching Company, (2014). Trade Paperback. 161-page Course Guidebook, plus a 4-Disc DVD set containing twenty-four 30-minute lectures on the topic of Physics. DVD set in original case plus the guidebook. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). DVDs fine in a fine case.
Bloomsbury Books, January 1989. Hardcover.
Simon & Schuster, January 1985. Trade Paperback.
St Martins Pr, July 2000. Hardcover. Soap bubbles, sea froth, the head of a Guinness, the polystyrene cup that holds your coffee -- foam and its bubbles influence our daily lives in ways we rarely think about. In "Universal Foam," physicist and writer Sidney Perkowitz connects the apparent properties of.....
Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 213 pages. 7 by 9-3/4 inches. Textbook. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Magnetic materials are the foundation of multi-billion dollar industries and the focus of intensive research across many disciplines. This book covers the fundamentals, basic.....
Free Press, October 1998. Hardcover. Gravity, DNA, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and space exploration were all unimaginable until they became real -- and transformed our lives. This watershed book shows us what we can expect from science in the next series of discoveries and no one but John Maddox could.....
Penguin USA, 2006. Hardcover. A provocative alternate history of humanity's ancient ancestry and the evolution of human nature draws on ground-breaking scientific findings to offer insight into such debated issues as the evolution of language and race, the domestication of companion animals, and the defeat of the Neanderthals.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 2001. Hardcover. Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall. What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human.....
Black Dog, September 2008. Hardcover.
Univ of Chicago Press, 1984. Trade Paperback.
Penguin USA, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Why do we behave the way we do? Biologist Paul Ehrlich suggests that although people share a common genetic code, these genes do not shout commands at us...at the very most, they whisper suggestions. He argues that human nature is not so much result.....
John Wiley & Sons, 1983. Hardcover. 753 pages. The Table is a chronological list of the 2389 launches of satellites and space vehicles between 1957 and the end of 1982. Including fragments, more than 13000 satellites appear in the tabulation, and there is a full index. 11.5 x 8.75 inches.....
Mitsubishi Electric / Philco-Ford, 1974. Trade Paperback. A promotional piece, probably for marketing purposes, about a Japanese communications satellite. 53 pages, most printed rectos (one side) only. A crease to right side from front cover, otherwise a near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Beaufort Books, 1985. Hardcover.
Gordon and Breach, 1966. Hardcover. 417 pages. Including Radioactive Isotpes of Germanium by P. Rudenko and L. V. Kovtun. English text translated from the Russian. One in the series Russian Monographs and Texts on the Physical Sciences. Very good with no dust jacket. Clean inside, no highlighting or underlining.
Springer-Verlag, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages. Proceeding of an international workshop in Feldafing, Bavaria, March 23-25 1985. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy. No jacket, as issued. Three lines of underlining on page 58.