Origins of Life: The Central Concepts
Jones and Bartlett, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 431 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Science
Genetics and Man
Schocken Books, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 382 pages. A revised and expanded edition of The Facts of Life (1953). First Schocken edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author on the half-title page dated 1974.
The Cranial Morphology of the Lower Liassic Latipinnate Ichthyosaurs of England
British Museum, 1973. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 109 pages followed by 9 black-and-white plates. 7-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches. With 56 illustrations in the text. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback). Cover creased.
General Questions of Evolution: Proceedings of the International Working Colloquium, Liblice, August 24 - 28, 1982
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 412 pages. One of 400 copies. Printed from typescript. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Uses of Consciousness (Fifty-Seventh James Arthur Lecture on The Evolution of the Human Brain)
American Museum of Natural History, 1987. First Edition. Pamphlet. 22 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback).
Human Brain Evolution in an Ecological Context (Fifty-Second James Arthur Lecture on The Evolution of the Human Brain)
American Museum of Natural History, 1983. First Edition. Pamphlet. 58 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). Lightly scuffed at the spine.
Proceedings of the First European Malacological Congress London, September 17-21, 1962
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland / Malacological Society of London, 1965. Trade Paperback. 266 pages. A nearly fine copy in orange wrappers.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the IUPS Commission on Gravitational Physiology, October 9-14, 1988, Montreal, Canada
American Physiological Society / The National Aeronautics and Space Administration / The Galileo Foundation, 1988. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 100 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A supplement to The Physiologist Volume 32, Number 1. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the IUPS Commission on Graviational Physiology, September 25 - 27, 1989, Lyon, France
American Physiological Society / The Galileo Foundation, 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 185 pages. Supplement to The Physiologist Volume 33, Number 1. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Rear cover creased.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the IUPS Commission on Graviational Physiology, September 29 - October 2, 1992, Berlin, Germany
American Physiological Society and The Galileo Foundation, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 172 pages. A supplement to The Physiologist Volume 36, Number 1. First edition (first printing). Bump to spine head else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Genetics and Twentieth Century Darwinism (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Volume XXIV)
The Biological Laboratory, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 321 pages. 8 by 11 inches. One in a series. Volume I published in 1933 with the final volume published in 2004. First edition (first printing). Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as.....
A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)
The Museum of Comparative Zoology / Harvard University, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 265 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Red cloth with gold lettering slightly tarnished. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Eratta slip affixed to front free endpaper with scotch tape.
The Evolution of Complex and Higher Organisms (NASA SP-478)
NASA, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 191 pages. A Report Prepared by the Participants of Workshops at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California July 1981, January 1982, and May 1982. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Ammonoids of the Late Scythian (Lower Triassic)
Harvard University, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 701 pages. Illustated in black-and-white. First edition thus. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Cambrian and Ordovician Rostroconch Molluscs from Northern Australia (Bulletin 171 / Department of National Resources, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics)
Australian Govt. Publishing Service, 1977. First Edition. Unknown. 54 pages followed by 27 black-and-white plates. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
History of the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research of Harvard University 1937-1987
Harvard University, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 103 pages. Torrey was the director of the Maria Moors Cabot Foundation from 1966 - 1975. First edition (first printing). Covers lightly soiled else a fine copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution.....
Australian Ordovician Pelecypod Molluscs (Bulletin 174 / Department of National Resources, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics)
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 64 pages followed by 28 black-and-white plates. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
Basic Books, September 2016. Hardcover. With beautiful illustrations and a detailed map, Sun Moon Earth has everything you need to get ready for the next solar eclipse. On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: a total eclipse of the sun. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer.....
Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. Hardcover. What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang. Millions around the world tuned.....
Brief Candle in the Dark
Ecco, September 2015. Hardcover. In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of.....
Fire in the Sky: Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth
Scribner, June 2019. Hardcover. Combining history, pop science, and in-depth reporting, a fascinating account of asteroids that hit Earth long ago, and those streaming toward us now, as well as how we are preparing against asteroid-caused catastrophe. One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit by.....
Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
Perseus Publishing, January 2003. Hardcover. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, and light travels at one fixed speed. This idea is considered a foundation of modern physics, but what if it is wrong?Theoretical physicist Magueijo presents the idea that light traveled faster in the early universe than it.....
The Major Features of Evolution
Simon & Schuster. Trade Paperback.
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Ballantine Books, October 1993. Trade Paperback. Cosmos, the widely acclaimed book and television series by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, was about where we are in the vastness of space and time. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is an exploration of who we are. How were we shaped by life's adventure.....
The FIFTH MIRACLE: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
Simon & Schuster, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Are We Alone in the Universe? In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life. Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled earth. It was.....