The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1929. Hardcover. 316 pages, followed by 20 pages of ads. Illustrated mostly in black-and-white. Blue cloth with gold lettering and rules. A very good copy lacking the jacket. Spotting to page edges and endpapers. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper.
Vintage, February 2005. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time.....
Modern Library, November 1994. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. ." . . Fascinating . . . an insight into the thought processes of a great physicist." -- "Times Literary Supplement" In these "Messenger Lectures," originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by.....
Harper Perennial, May 2019. Trade Paperback. How precise is this book? Winchester explores the Age of Precision dating back to avid-supporter Thomas Jefferson who ushered into the U.S. the concept of Standardization. A remarkable journey of how we got where we are and why so much of the Natural World.....
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.....
Pegasus Books, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the world's leading experts on genetics unravels one of the most important breakthroughs in modern science and medicine. If our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happen if mankind could engineer and alter the.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (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.....
St. Martin's Griffin, September 2015. Trade Paperback. Signed copy. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge.....
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. 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.....
Vintage, January 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells a "compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human" (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2015. Trade Paperback. 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 affliction, and became.....
Doubleday, September 1992. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Perseus Books Group, April 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post-World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World.....
Lopngman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. 373 pages. Introducing the Lindley Method, an early form of plant taxonomy. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with some scuffing to boards, a bookplate to front free endpaper, sticker residue from a previous book plate, a small.....
Henry Holt and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy with stamp from San Fancisco Microscopical Society on title page; no dust jacket.
Vintage, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Vivid. . . . Livewired reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan's front lawn." --The Wall Street Journal What does drug withdrawal have in common with a......
BenBella Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). There are deep and fascinating links between heavy metal and quantum physics. No, really!While teaching at the University of Nottingham, physicist Philip Moriarty noticed something odd, a surprising number of his students were heavily into metal music. Colleagues, too.....
Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 1999. Hardcover. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology. Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most.....
Tarcher, April 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 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.....
Vintage, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). With passion and curiosity, Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. He looks at the dialogue between science and religion; the conflict between our human desire for permanence and the impermanence of nature;.....
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.....
State University of New York Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Though best known for his superlative poetry and plays, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) also produced a sizable body of scientific work that focused on such diverse topics as plants, color, clouds, weather, and geology.....
Riverhead Books, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian "Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator... This is the place where science comes to life." ?Neil Gaiman "One of.....
Crown Books for Young Readers, April 2022. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.