Le problème de l'évolution
Payot, 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 447 pages. Text in French. First edition (first printing). Very good in tanned wrappers (paperback).
Science
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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.....
The Cosmic Serpent
Tarcher, April 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For ten years, Jeremy Narby explored the Amazonian rain forests, the libraries of Europe, and some of the world's most arcane scientific journals, following strange clues, unsuppressible intuitions, and extraordinary coincidences. He collected evidence and researched the seemingly impossible possibility that specific.....
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (California World History Library)
University of California Press, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the.....
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
W. W. Norton, March 2008. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The study of sexual physiology--what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better--has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson.....
Time Travel: A History
Vintage, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel--a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last.....
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to.....
Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
N/A, April 1998. Trade Paperback. If evolution by natural selection relentlessly favors self-interest, why do human beings live in complex societies and show so much cooperative spirit? In The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist, shows that recent research in a number.....
Nobel Prize Conversations: With Sir John Eccles, Roger Sperry, Ilya Prigogine, Brian Josephson
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.....
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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.....
Trigonometry Workbook For Dummies
For Dummies, July 2005. Trade Paperback. From angles to functions to identities - solve trig equations with ease Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or worse yet, not know where to begin? No fear - this hands-on-guide.....
The Holographic Universe
Harper Perennial, April 1992. Trade Paperback. "In remarkably readable prose (even when dealing with physics), Talbot explores the ways in which our concepts of time, personality, even consciousness are altered by defining them as holographic. . .This book presents controversial but fascinating material."-- "Booklist" "In remarkably readable prose (even when.....
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. -- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists -- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award -- Named a......
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
W. W. Norton, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a......
The Mystery of the Periodic Table (Living History Library)
Ignatius Press, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Author Benjamin Wiker leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von.....
Energy in Nature
Cassell & Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A good copy; no dust jacket. Minor loss to the spine ends, corners frayed, spine rubbed. With the bookplate of Harold Parker on the front pastedown, and his ownership signature on the title page dated 1889.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Broadway Books, September 2017. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric--with a new afterword "A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent."--Financial Times.....
The Kingdom of the Sun
Abelard-Schuman, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 156 pages. A history of human comprehension of space. First edition (first printing). Yellow cloth with red lettering and design. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with British price clipped (American price intact) and some toning to the spine and edges; small stains.....
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour
Princeton University Press, 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse.....
Lab Girl
Vintage, March 2017. Trade Paperback. 'Lab Girl' is the story of a girl who becomes a scientist. It's also the story of a career and the endless struggles over funding, recognition, and politics that get in the way. It's the story of plants and soil she studies. But - and.....
Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations
LWW, March 2017. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Master histology with idealized and actual photomicrography! This thirteenth edition of Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations (formerly diFiore's ) provides a rich understanding of the basic histology concepts that medical and allied health students need to know.....
Interactive Statistics (Classic Version) (Pearson Modern Classics for Advanced Statistics Series)
Pearson, 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wappers (paperback). This volume takes a hands-on approach to the introduction of basic statistical methods, using a highly interactive method. Readers are taught to ask "why" and think like a statistician to find the logical solution. With its strong emphasis on data analysis.....
Visions of the Universe
Cosmos Store, 1981. Hardcover. 46 pages. 14-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. Illustrated from color paintings. Second printing. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100-1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, Vol. XIV)
Clarendon Press, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 334 pages. 9 by 12-1/4 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Stain (coffee?) on cover and first few pages; creases to rear cover. Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the.....
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Basic Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Discover the "fascinating" and surprising science of the creepers, crawlers, wrigglers, and runners that live in our homes (The Washington Post) -- and learn why they're essential to our everyday lives. However domesticated our houses appear, they are wild beyond imagination.....