W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap.....
Atlantic Monthly Press, September 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring.....
ALPHA, July 2008. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The knee bone's connected to the leg bone... Like its counterparts in calculus, chemistry, and physics, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Anatomy, Illustrated," is aimed at students who need an understandable supplement to their more rigorous textbook. However, unlike students of.....
Harry N. Abrams, February 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Praised by Nature ("stunning"), the London Times ("remarkable"), and the Guardian ("mesmeric"), this lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkable history of anatomical illustration. Before the invention of photography, artists played an essential role in medical science, recording human anatomy.....
Vintage, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years--with charts and line drawings throughout. "Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the.....
Grand Central Publishing, September 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. For readers of Giulia Enders' Gut and Bill Bryson's The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson. The future is sh*t: the literal kind.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), December 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "Fascinating. Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain."--Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat What is neuroplasticity? Is it possible to change your brain.....
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.....
Oxford University Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Why do we bite people we feel affection towards? Why do dogs wag their tails? Or cats purr? Why do we get embarrassed, and why does embarrassment make us blush? These, and many other questions about the emotional life.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a system not unlike.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Hardcover. A new copy. Decades of research document plants' impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants may not have brains, their internal workings reveal a system not unlike.....
Dutton, 2018. Hardcover. 656 pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year"--The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of.....
Macmillan Pub Co, October 1993. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Penguin Books, March 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life.....
Ecco, August 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times Bestseller From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin--a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life.....
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......
Riverhead Books, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. "A provocative and entertaining magical mineral tour through the life and afterlife of bone." --Wall Street Journal Our bones have many stories to tell, if you know how to listen. Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material.....
Oxford University Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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.
American Museum of Natural History, 1947. Trade Paperback. Paginagted 325-412. 7-3/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Illustrated in blackk-and-white. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould.
n.d., ca 1980s. Hardcover. 4 bound volumes of Jukes' publications, mostly offprints, from 1949-56 (Volume 1); 1960-71 (Volume 2); 1972-75 (Volume 3); `1975-1980 (Volume 4). Thomas H. Jukes (1906-1999) was a British-American biologist known for his work in nutrition, molecular evolution and for his public engagement with controversial scientific issues.....
Payot, 1931. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 447 pages. Text in French. First edition (first printing). Very good in tanned wrappers (paperback).
LWW, March 2017. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Master histology with idealized and actual photomicrography! This thirteenth edition of Atlas of Histology with Functional Correlations (formerly diFiore's ) provides a rich understanding of the basic histology concepts that medical and allied health students need to know.....