Plenum Books, 1991. Hardcover. 247 pages. The idea for this book began over four decades ago when Edward Teller began teaching physics appreciation courses at the University of Chicago. Then, as now, Dr. Teller believes that illiteracy in science is an increasingly great danger to American society, not only for.....
Pantheon Books, 1982. Trade Paperback.
Harmony, September 1997. Hardcover. 190 pages. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life magazine marking the century's midpoint, Stephen Jay Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millennium. In this beautiful inquiry into time.....
Random House, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 505 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
W. H. Freeman and Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 555 pages. Drawings by Evan Gillespie. First edition (first printing). Near fine in cloth with silver lettering. No dust jacket as issued.
Franz Deuticke, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pp., 6 tables in text, 13 (numbered to 14: complete) plates (1 folding, some tinted), 14 charts in text. Mandl was an outside lecturer for obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Vienna. Burger was assitant at the First University Woman's Clinic in.....
University of Chicago Press, 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 479 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). By studying evolution across geological time, paleontologists gain a perspective that sometimes complements and sometimes conflicts with views based solely on studies of extant species. The contributors.....
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 556 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in decorated blue wrappers (paperback).
Wesleyan University Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 670 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
W. W. Norton & Co, January 1981. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Basic Books, March 1996. Hardcover. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Cambridge University Press, July 1984. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that.....
Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 398 pages. 8-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches. Extensively illustrated. A follow-up to the bestselling Cosmos, published to coincide with the return of Halley's comet in 1986.
Harper & Row, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. A look at the universe, starting from the surface of the Earth and expanding inward and outward, to the edges of space and into the heart of the atom. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Lothrop Lee & Shepard, October 1977. Hardcover.
Random House, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Based on the RAND Corporation Research Study, Habitable Planets for Man, by Stephen H. Dole. Asimov spiffs up an academic study for a general audience, outlining the criteria habitable planets were likely to meet. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a......
Hutchinson, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 204 pages. First British edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Oliver and Boyd, 1962. Hardcover. 160 pages. Originally published 1952. Later printing. Near fine copy in blue cloth with bright gilt decoration and lettering. In a very good, price-clipped, dust jacket with chips missing from top and bottom of spine.
University of California Institute of Marine Resources, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 223 pages. University of California Sea Grant College Program. Sea Grant Publication 54. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue printed wrappers (paperback). Sticker with numbers taped to spine bottom.
California Department of Fish and Game, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 19 pages. Marine Resources Technical Report No. 3. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white printed wrappers (paperback).
California Department of Fish and Game, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 233 pages. Marine Resources Technical Report No. 4. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white printed wrappers (paperback).
U.S. Department of Interior, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Biological Report 82(11.113) First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated yellow wrappers (paperback).
U. S. Department of Interior, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Biological Report 82(11.103) First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated yellow wrappers (paperback).
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).
U.S. Department of the Interior, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. Biological Report 82 (11.95) First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated yellow wrappers (paperback).