The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Hardcover. 256 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1993. Hardcover. 256 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Kraus Reprint Company, 1969. Hardcover. 397, 503 pages. Volume I: Reviews of Works on Botany and Related Subjects, 1834-1887. Volume II: Essays; Biographical Sketches, 1841-1886. A good-quality facsimile of the 1889 edition. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued.
Back Bay Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Since Einstein's time, a "theory of everything" -- one coherent mathematical model that would encompass all the forces and particles of nature -- has become the Holy Grail of physics, and its pursuit has resulted in some of the.....
Helix Books, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with a tiny tear to one corner else fine. "Grinspoon clearly loves the subject of this exemplary work, the unfolding of our knowledge of 'Earth's Twin.'...His book is full of.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Trade Paperback. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes.....
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.
Presses polytechniques romandes, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 244 pages. The application of graphing and matrices to the study of fossils. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Stephen Jay Gould. *** From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate.....
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.....
Springer, 1987. Hardcover. 248 pages. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1. the dependence of scientific progress in biology.....
Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 409 pages. 'The articles in this volume are the result of an international symposium held at the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur zu Mainz in April 1978' -- from the preface. With contributions from Jared Diamond, Paul Ehrlich, Martin Cody, Joan Roughgarden.....
W. H. Freeman and Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 209 pages. By the British paleontologist and professor of Geology & Zoology. Illustrated including with a fold-out chart. American edition published with the British sheets. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with creased snags to the.....
Praxis, February 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Cassini at Saturn - Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004. Here the author reports 8 months of.....
Springer, 2000. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Prior to the space age, little was known about Jupiter. Focusing on the Galileo mission, this book tracks the remarkable spacecraft gestation, the ordeal of its long haul out to Jupiter, and its 5 year long exploration of the.....
Springer, 2002. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear. Saturn is back in the news! The Cassini/Huygens spacecraft, a joint venture by NASA and the European Space Agency, is on its way to Saturn, where it will arrive in July 2004. During 2005 it will.....
U.S. Department of Interior, 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 29 pages. Biological report 82(11.82) First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in yellow illustrated wrappers (paperback).
California Department of Fish and Game, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Marine Resources Technical Report No. 13. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white printed wrappers (paperback), stapled.
Bantam, October 1998. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was.....
Bantam, September 2005. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on.....
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Science Series, Number 35. 169 pages with 97 figures, including many detail microscope images. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. Inscribed by Hickman to the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, 'For Steve.....
Watts & Co., 1910. Hardcover. 128 pages. Intended for beginning students of evolution. Second impression of the reissued edition. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Gutter cracked at the copyright page and before the last page. With ownership signatures of two former owners. From the Harvard office library.....
Rodopi, 1984. Trade Paperback. 110 pages. 6-3/4 by 9-1/4 inches. Academic thesis, including a collection of previously published articles. Author's resume in Dutch. No indication of printing or edition on copyright page. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Small stains to cover.
Springer-Verlag, 1984. First Edition. Library Binding. 431 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white graphs, tables and photo reproductions. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating.....
Johns Hopkins University Press, September 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how an antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous.....
Rutgers University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 276 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Princeton University Press, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach us Insects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn.....