The Universe in a Nutshell
Bantam, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Bantam, January 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Basic Books, March 1999. Trade Paperback. T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) was Darwin's bloody-fanged bulldog. His giant scything intellect shook a prim Victorian society; his "Devil's gospel" of evolution outraged. He put "agnostic" into the vocabulary and cave men into the public consciousness. Adrian Desmond's fiery biography with its panoramic view.....
Ecco, February 2012. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements--and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of.....
Basic Books, December 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and.....
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Ephemera. 247 pages. With essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Joshua Lederberg, Paul Crutzen, Anne McLaren, Eric Kandel, et al. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A sweeping overview of the most exciting areas in science, from.....
Bloomsbury Books, January 1989. Hardcover.
Bantam Spectra, October 1989. Hardcover.
Beaufort Books, 1985. Hardcover.
Scientia, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 479 pages. Papers on Leonardo da Vinci, with particular emphasis on his notebooks. Some essays are in English, others are in Italian; many are illustrated with reproductions from Leonardo's notebooks. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). A large, heavy.....
Crowell-Collier Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. A relatively early book on quasars for a popular astronomy audience—the dense accretions of matter around black holes were only named in 1964. The author, at the time a marketing manager for a space contractor, went on to become a popular and.....
(American Physiological Society / The Galileo Foundation), 1992. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 257 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A supplement to The Physiologist Volume 35, Number 1. First edition (first printing). Bump to spine foot else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
American Physiological Society and The Galileo Foundation, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 172 pages. A supplement to The Physiologist Volume 36, Number 1. First edition (first printing). Bump to spine head else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Chartwell Books, August 2010. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. From the award-winning Web site visited by more than 2.5 million people every month comes the hardcover reference guide How Stuff Works. This book is a definitive guide to the inner workings of everyday items.....
Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 536 pages. Studies in the Foundations, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Volume 3/1. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in orange cloth with black lettering. Mild soiling to rear cover. No dust jacket.
Prometheus Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a crease to the front flap. For many years the federal government funded the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), later popularized by Carl Sagan's novel Contact and the movie starring Jodie Foster. Though.....
Fondazione Carlo Erba, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 183 pages. 6-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. Various experts in their fields address Chemistry, Biology and Medicine. Some illustrations in color. First edition (first printing). Light discoloration at the spine ends else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Saybrook, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 210 pages. 'Four Nobel Prize Laureates bring us a uniquely hopeful and creative vision of the human future and the future of humans who can make it possible' -- from the front flap. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.....
Mariner Books, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A "clear, accessbile" investigation into the philosophical and scientific foundations of human life, from one of the world's leading neuroscientists (San Francisco Chronicle). Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. In the.....
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.
Ecco, September 2015. Hardcover. A very good used copy in a very good dust jacket. In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing.....
National Academy of Sciences, 1983. First Edition. Unknown. 95 pages. From the Committee on Opportunities for Research in the Geological Sciences. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Dutton, February 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. For readers of Sean Carroll, Brian Greene, Katie Mack, and anyone who wants to know what theoretical physicists actually do. This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2015. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and.....
MIT Press, January 1968. Trade Paperback.
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic.....