Tao Of Physics
N/A, August 1991. Trade Paperback.
Physical Science
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Basic Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. 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. Look down in.....
Dangers of Intelligence and Other Science Essays
Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 193 pages. Short science essays written for American Way, the in-flight magazine for American Airlines. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a very good dust jacket; wear at the spine head and original price on flap crossed out and different price handwritten.....
Please Explain
Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Hardcover. 210 pages. Asimov answers 100 questions on science put to him by magazine readers. Second printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The Order of Time
Riverhead Books, December 2019. Trade Paperback. One of TIME's Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book. --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It.....
Stars (A Scientific American Library Book)
W H Freeman & Co, 1992. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Short History of the Universe (Scientific American Library)
Scientific American Library, 1994. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In this work, the cosmologist, Joseph Silk, describes what is currently known about the history and construction of the universe. Recent discoveries about fluctuations in cosmic background radiation and their implications are included.....
Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe (Scientific American Library)
Scientific American library, 1996. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In Gravity's Fatal Attraction, Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal) and Mitchell Begelman explore gravity where it is infinitely strong: in black holes. These mind-boggling structures can have a mass up to billions of times.....
My Inventions
Arcturus Publishing, June 2019. Trade Paperback.
Today and Tomorrow and ...
Doubleday, 1973. Hardcover. 321 pages. Short science essays. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
The Secret of the Universe
Doubleday, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Science essays collected from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with a creased snag to the rear panel.
The Left Hand of the Electron
White Lion, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 225 pages. Seventeen science essays collected from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. First British edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with short tears at the cover edges and spine ends, and a closed snag on the spine.....
Science, Numbers, and I
Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 226 pages. Seventeen non-fiction essays collected from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. One of Asimov's less common titles. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a scuffed dust jacket with wear at the corners and spine ends.
Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1858
Gould and Lincoln, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. 419 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Loss to the spine ends. Endpapers and frontispiece foxed.
If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive...Discorporation and U.S. Patent 4,666,425
Polinym Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 461 pages. 'These essays are a compelling mix of hard-nosed analysis, pleas for humanity, insights into history and human nature, and unshirking predictions ranging from optimistic all the way to horrifying' -- from the jacket flap. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in.....
The Nature of Violent Storms
Doubleday, 1961. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 158 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Opportunities for Research in the Geological Sciences
National Academy of Sciences, 1983. First Edition. Unknown. 95 pages. From the Committee on Opportunities for Research in the Geological Sciences. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Toward an International Geosphere - Biosphere Program: A Study of Global Change
National Acadamy Press, 1983. First Edition. Unknown. 81 pages. Report of a National Research Council Workshop in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, July 25 - 29, 1983. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Water Hammer: Its Cause, Magnitude, Prevention
Columbia Graphs, (1953). First Edition. Hardcover. 116 pages. Instructions for engineers to calculate the intensity of a pressure surge in order to create designs that eliminate their destructive effects. First edition (first printing). Gren cloth with gold lettering on the cover. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Light.....
To the Ends of the Universe
Walker & Company, 1976. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 141 pages. A revised edition of a 1967 book on astronomy for middle-school readers. First printing of this revised edition (number line ends in one). Very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine ends. This book.....
In Quest of Quasars
Crowell-Collier Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 198 pages. A relatively early book on quasars for a popular astronomy audience—the dense accretions of matter around black holes were only named in 1964. The author, at the time a marketing manager for a space contractor, went on to become a popular and.....
The Long Darkness: Psychological and Moral Perspectives on Nuclear Winter
Yale University Press, 1986. Hardcover. 213 pages. With contributons by Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Erik Erikson, Robert J. Lifton and others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Science Past, Science Future
Doubleday, 1975. Hardcover. 346 pages. Forty-three science essays originally published in magazines. Later printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Science Past, Science Future
Doubleday, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 346 pages. Forty-three science essays originally published in magazines. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with spine a bit toned and faded and lightly chipped at the spine head; snag to rear panel repaired on the verso with tape.....
From Earth to Heaven: Seventeen Essays on Science
Dennis Dobson, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Essays reprinted from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. First British edition (first printing). Light edge wear else a fine copy in a dust jacket with a couple chips and tears to the edges and a sticker scar on the cover affecting text.....