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.....
Free Press, September 2002. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. "The truth belongs to everyone, but error is ours alone." "-- The Measure of All Things" Amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions from Paris to measure.....
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.....
Edward Arnold, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. 59 pages. The Institute of Biology's Studies in Biology series number 29. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; in a spine faded dust jacket with a 1/2 inch closed tear to the front at the top.
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.....
Taller de Impresiones Oficiales, 1934. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 704 pages. 10-1/2 by 7 inches. Many plates, one folding. Text in Spanish. Ameghino, a native Italian, was the most important 19th century fossil expert in Patagonia. First edition (first printing). Rebound in green cloth; fine. The title page is a......
Simon & Schuster, March 1999. Hardcover.
Bloomsbury Books, January 1989. Hardcover.
Hesperian Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. 1203 pages. 'A detailed work on the present state of our knowledge of the Australian vertebrate fauna and its origins and evolutionary history' -- from the foreword by John Calaby. Printed in typescript. Profusely illutrated, mostly in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Red boards.....
Hesperian Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. 1203 pages. 8-3/4 by 12 inches. 'A detailed work on the present state of our knowldge of the Australian vertebrate fauna and its origins and evolutionary history' -- from the forward by John Calaby. Printed from typescript. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing).....
Bantam Spectra, October 1989. Hardcover.
Beaufort Books, 1985. Hardcover.
Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. The first monograph of the general theory of operations, one of the fundamental parts of functional calculus. Text in French. The major work by the influential mathematician who had many mathematical concepts named after him. First edition (first printing).....
Westview Press, Inc., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 627 pages. Printed from tyepscript. A collection of essays based on a 1978 symposium. 'This is the first colleciton of essays on sociobiology in which opposing views are aired.' -- from the About page. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy;.....
Vintage, September 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about.....
D. Reidel Pub. Co., published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. First edition. Spine faded from blue to brown; previous owner's name stamped inside and on page edges, otherwise a very good, clean copy in a like jacket. Mathematical physics has become, in.....
University of the State of New York, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 95 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. Illustrated with 8 black-and-white plates. First edition (first printing). A good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Loss to paper spine and tears to the hinges. A former owner's name and notations.....
Arno Press, 1980. Hardcover. 638 pages. Reprint of the 1901 edition. Illustrated in black-and-white. From the History of Paleontology collection of reprints by Arno Press. A fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. No dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist.....
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.....
Schocken Books, August 1982. Trade Paperback.
Random House, Inc., April 1996. Trade Paperback. 118 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution inalterably transformed our view of the history of life on the planet--and along with it, how we understand ourselves.....
Little, Brown and Company, July 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion.....
(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).