New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1970. Trade Paperback. 88 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir No. 45. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Ex-library stamp on cover.
Harper Perennial, January 1991. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how pure science is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions.
1st Books, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 398 pages. Sarfatti is a theoretical physicist whose work emphasizes quantum physics and consciousness. He was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the late 1970s. This book is the sequel to Space-Time and Beyond.....
University of Pennsylvania, 1940. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Reprint from The Physical Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1940. 12 pages. Pomerantz was an American physicist and Director of the Bartol Research Institute and a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy. He received his PhD. from Temple University in 1951 with.....
Dover, 1963. Trade Paperback. 354 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Cornell University Press, (1959). First Edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. Monograph originally presented as as six Messenger Lectures on the Evolution of Civilization at Cornell University, 1958. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine glassine wrapper. Wrapper with few small edge chips.
University pf Chicago Press, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 354 pages. With contributions by Stephen Jay Gould, Edward O. Wilson, E. O. Wiley and others. First edition thus. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Obtained from the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay.....
Edwards Famous Remainders, January 1995. Trade Paperback.
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 408 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in wrappers (paperback).
Museum of Jurassic Technology, 1993. Trade Paperback.
University of New Mexico Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 213 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light fading to spine else fine.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. First Edition. Ephemera. 247 pages. With essays by Stephen Jay Gould, Joshua Lederberg, Paul Crutzen, Anne McLaren, Eric Kandel, et al. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A sweeping overview of the most exciting areas in science, from.....
W. H. Freeman and Company, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 429 pages. Text in typescript. First edition (first printing). Maroon cloth with gold lettering (a bit tarnished). A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket.
Random House, Inc., April 1996. Trade Paperback. 118 pages. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With a foreword by Stephen Jay Gould First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution inalterably transformed our view of the history of life on the planet--and along with it, how we understand ourselves.....
University of Wisconsin Press, April 1997. Trade Paperback. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Women have long participated in the dissemination of science, a part of the history of science that until recently has been undervalued and little explored. By practicing the arts of science.....
University of Chicago Press, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 411 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Nature has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T. H. Huxley (Darwin's bulldog) wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In.....
University Press of New England, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 385 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Academic Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 447 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Very good dust jacket with edge and corner wear and small closed edge tears. Signature of prior owner on front pastedown.
Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 536 pages. Studies in the Foundations, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Volume 3/1. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in orange cloth with black lettering. Mild soiling to rear cover. No dust jacket.
University of California Press, 1916. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp 297-398, 1916. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Blakiston Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. 226 pages. Campbell was an American astronomer noted for his study of variable stars at the Harvard College Observatory. The lunar crater 'Campbell' is named after him. He was named the Pickering Memorial Astronomer, ca. 1931. A Harvard Book on Astronomy. First edition (first.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2016. Hardcover. You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow.....
Houghton Mifflin, May 2007. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us With the singular intelligence and exuberance that made Woman an international sensation, Natalie Angier takes us on a whirligig tour of the scientific canon. She.....
Broadway Books, April 2015. Trade Paperback. Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists. "Rachel Swaby's no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math."--Elle In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: "She made.....
Bloomsbury Sigma, November 2019. Trade Paperback. A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror.....