Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 386 pages. "This book interprets Hooke's Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes, and Subterraneous Eruptions (1667-1694). The volume consists of the original text of the Discourses transposed into modern type and paired with explanatory annotations; a brief up-to-date biography of Hooke, with emphasis on his geological contributions; and a comparison of selected passages from James Hutton, to show the transmission of ideas and Hooke's influence on later geologists. It will attract Earth scientists and science historians, along with general readers interested in the history of geology" (the publisher). Name and date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages with b&w illustrations. Unique in its comprehensive coverage, this book describes the major vegetation types from the arctic tundra of Alaska and Canada to the tropical forest of Central America. This original detailed summary provides the reader with a sense of the species composition, architecture and environment of each ecosystem. Each chapter opens with a map of North America that delineates the specific geographic area discussed within the following text. Some basic topics covered include paleobotany, autecological behaviour, nutrient cycling, and productivity. In addition to the basic biology of the ecosystems, environmental issues and management problems are addressed. Notes on areas for future research conclude each chapter. Comprehensive bibliographies provide references to additional details published in the technical literature. Mild crease to front cover and first 5 pages, otherwise very good, clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, like new. 371 pages. Written by noted quantum computing theorist Scott Aaronson, this book takes readers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics. Full of insights, arguments and philosophical perspectives, the book covers an amazing array of topics. Beginning in antiquity with Democritus, it progresses through logic and set theory, computability and complexity theory, quantum computing, cryptography, the information content of quantum states and the interpretation of quantum mechanics. There are also extended discussions about time travel, Newcomb's Paradox, the anthropic principle and the views of Roger Penrose. Aaronson's informal style makes this fascinating book accessible to readers with scientific backgrounds, as well as students and researchers working in physics, computer science, mathematics and philosophy.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury Historical Society, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages, plate with color maps. Terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering. Small area of discoloration to front and rear covers, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. White River Jct VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on title page and INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Novelist and shepherd Mitchell presents this account of what happened after a biologist from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department asked for permission to track bats on his farm. The author having been an iconoclast since his youth, the book is as much a story about a back-to-the-land Vermont farmer coming to collaborate with government as the story of the bats for whose benefit the forested land was managed. This idealist muses on the process of balancing concerns of money, ecology, independence and co-dependence, wrapping up the book with insights learned in convoluted manner about nature, society, and himself.
Hardcover. New York, Raven Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages illustrated with b&w diagrams and charts. Tight and clean, review copy with publisher letter laid in.
Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 268 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. The fresh, clean taste of New York's water is legendary. Less well known is the fascinating story of the massive program of exploration and construction that was required to achieve such purity. The story of that monumental undertaking is told in Water-Works and illustrated with an astonishing archive of drawings and photographs documenting the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, aqueducts, and tunnels. This complex system brings millions of gallons of water to the city every day from rivers many hundreds of miles away.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, Maclachlan & Stewart, 2nd, 1831, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 639 pages. Text in Latin. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper.
Paperback. Cinncinatti, American Book Co., 1st wraps, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 page booklet. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper wrappers. A selection of three chapters on Edmund Halley and comets and meteors from "Todd's New Astronomy".
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 316 pages including index. First published in 1952. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 223 pages. In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.
Hardcover. Braunschweig GR, Vieweg und Sohn, 1st, 1900-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 506 and 527 pages. Ex-library bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. The usual stamping, end paper residue, sticker to bottom of spines. Previous owner's signature. Light wear to covers, internally crisp and clean. GERMAN TEXT. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. The best-selling author of Listening to Prozac examines depression from a historical and scientific perspective, challenging cultural beliefs that depression is a noble or romantic disorder linked to soulful or creative achievements, and calling for a greater awareness of depression's devastating impact, as well as renewed efforts to provide curative treatments.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., Reprint, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 299 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. This is an abridged translation by Hugh S.R. Elliot and A.G. Thacker.Introduction by P. Chalmers Mitchell. Red cloth, gilt decorations to front and spine. Slight wear along edges and spine, light soiling to covers, faint foxing to top edge, front hinge cracked, else a very neat copy.
Hardcover. Toronto, L. K. Cameron, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, white cloth spine, gilt. Spotting to covers. Six annual reports for 1903. 05, 06, 07, 11 and 12 - all bound into one volume. Illustrated with black & white and some color photographs, b&w drawings of archaeological finds. Two fold-out maps. Some pages tanned by age otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York NY, Plenum Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, tables and diagrams throughout, with b&w photographs. Title printed in gilt on the spine, cloth bound. Minor foxing on upper edge near spine. Dust jacket has minimal edgewear and rubbing. Very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, staple-bound green wrappers. Some tanning to covers, otherwise clean, very good condition.
Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 605 pages, b&w and color diagrams and illustrations. Embossed red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A study on heredity and genetics. Sir John Arthur Thomson (1861-1933), Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen, was a follower of August Weismann.Edge wear, light soiling to covers; spine faded. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf. Front hinge cracked. Else a nice, clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 536 pages including index. Looks at Galileo's life and accomplishments to establish his position as a man of science, describes his scientific work, and illuminates the relationship between his scientific studies and the philosophical and religious milieu of the period. Clean copy.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated in b&w and color, 264 pages. Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. In this book, Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about how perception normally works and why it sometimes fails. Although successive editions have incorporated new discoveries and ideas, this is the first time that Richard Gregory has completely revised and updated the text, adding more than thirty new illustrations. The phenomena of illusion continue to be a major theme in the book, in which the author makes a new attempt to provide a comprehensive classification system. There are also new sections on what babies see and how they learn to see, on motion perception, and tantalizing glimpses of the relationship between vision and consciousness and of the impact of new brain imaging techniques. In addition, the presentation of the text and illustrations has been improved by the larger format and new page design. The thousands of readers of the previous editions of Eye and Brain will find this new revised edition even more attractive and enthralling. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, W.M. Welch Scientific Company, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 989 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Former ownership signature on front fly, else near fine. Massive trade catalog of school and industrial scientific equipment in the 1960's. indexed, illustrated with many thousands of drawings and photos of scientific instruments from microscopes to corks, everything for a laboratory, basic and advanced. Large, heavy volume, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Translated from the Italian and Latin by Henry Crew and Alfonso De Salvio. Introduction by Antonio Favaro. Frontispiece portrait and other illustrations/diagrams throughout. 300 pages. Originally published in 1914. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and white, 433 pages. When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how--unlike in Roman Catholic lands--discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Springer Verlag, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages. This classic in Springer's acclaimed Virtual Laboratory series is the first comprehensive account of the computer simulation of plant development. 150 illustrations, one third of them in color, vividly demonstrate the spectacular results of the algorithms used to model plant shapes and developmental processes. The latest in computer-generated images allow us to look at plants growing, self-replicating, responding to external factors and even mutating, without becoming entangled in the underlying mathematical formulae involved. The authors place particular emphasis on Lindenmayer systems - a notion conceived by one of the authors, Aristid Lindenmayer, and internationally recognized for its exceptional elegance in modeling biological phenomena. Nonetheless, the two authors take great care to present a survey of alternative methods for plant modelling.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. In Science before Socrates, Daniel Graham argues against the prevalent belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham proposes that the advances made by Presocratic philosophers in the study of astronomy deserve to be considered as scientific contributions. Whereas philosophers of the sixth century BC treated astronomical phenomena as ephemeral events continuous with weather processes, those of the fifth century treated heavenly bodies as independent stony masses whirled in a cosmic vortex. Two historic events help to date and account for the change: a solar eclipse in 478 BC and a meteoroid that fell to earth around 466. Both events influenced Anaxagoras, who transformed insights from Parmenides into explanations of lunar and solar eclipses, meteors, and rainbows. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volume complete set. Folios, maroon cloth covers with gilt and dark blue spine designs. Facsimile reprint of the 1772 edition, over 5000 pages. Clean, very good. NOTE: THESE ARE HUGE VOLUMES AND CAN ONLY BE SHIPPED DOMESTICALLY.
Hardcover. New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slightly sun-faded spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Working from the fossil record, Richard Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct - or did they? He traces the 200-million-year history of the great ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs who swam the ancient oceans - and who, according to some, may even still frequent the likes of Loch Ness. The first book about these animals in nearly a century, Sea Dragons draws upon the most recent scientific research to reconstruct their lives and habitats. Along the way, the book also provides insights into and tales about the work, discoveries, and competing theories that compose the world of vertebrate paleontology. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Uppsala Sweden, ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue paper wraps, SIGNED note from the author laid in. Unpaginated, a collection of papers on the subject. Very clean and bright copy. Light wear to covers.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, 1st thus, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages. Red boards with white printed illustration & white titles to cover & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including figures, chart, tables & photographs. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge at the University Press, Revised 2nd edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Ex-library book with labels/stamps/and appropriate markings. Light pencil markings throughout. Some light tanning to edges and pages. Traditions of Science, The Foundations of Dynamical Physics, Scientific Relativity, The Natural Elements...
Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 469 pages. Red-brown cloth, gilt. Boards have minor edgewear and bumped corners. Large folded map in back pocket. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked. Pages clean and unmarked, illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 527 pages, 10.25 x 7.75 inches. Scarce ethnological and archeological study of Liberia's culture and myths. Large fold-out colored map, measuring 20.25 x 43 inches, is slipped into the inner rear cover. Copious illustrations and diagrams throughout. Light chipping to paper covers but with a very good interior. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading and agewear to spine of dj. This study of the metaphysics of G.W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural pholosophy.
Hardcover. NY, Springer, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy yellow boards, 192 pages. John Wallis (1616-1703) was the most influential English mathematician prior to Newton. He published his most famous work, Arithmetica Infinitorum, in Latin in 1656. This book studied the quadrature of curves and systematized the analysis of Descartes and Cavelieri. Upon publication, this text immediately became the standard book on the subject and was frequently referred to by subsequent writers. This will be the first English translation of this text ever to be published. To the modern reader, the Arithmetica Infinitorum reveals much that is of historical and mathematical interest, not least the mid seventeenth-century tension between classical geometry on the one hand, and arithmetic and algebra on the other. Newton was to take up Wallis's work and transform it into mathematics that has become part of the mainstream, but in Wallis's text we see what we think of as modern mathematics still struggling to emerge. It is this sense of watching new and significant ideas force their way slowly and sometimes painfully into existence that makes the Arithmetica Infinitorum such a relevant text even now for students and historians of mathematics alike. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 490 pages. By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with chipping and wear to edges. 271 pages, color illustrations. For more than 50 years, the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been one of the most intensely studied landscapes on earth. This book highlights many of the important ecological findings amassed during the long-term research conducted there, and considers their regional, national, and global implications. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia , John Dickins, 2nd Ed., 1795, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes bound in one: 100 and 103 pages. The second volume; The Primitive Physic by John Wesley, 24th Edition, revised and corrected. Bound in contemporary calf, front top corner worn, scattered foxing. Early home remedies for all kinds of maladies. Previous owner's signature on title page otherwise clean, solid copy.
Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Publishers, Revised Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Very minor dust jacket edge wear. Small crease on front dust jacket cover. SIGNED BY FORMER ASTRONAUT ALLEN on half title page and dated 1988. Lots of color photographs throughout. A very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. "It knocks me out, every day," she says. Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world's most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a sense of humor, invent, plot, and cope. They can teach us volumes about the interrelationships of humans and animals.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Medical World, 2nd Ed., 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. A collection of pharmaceutical mixtures, enlarged from the previous year's edition. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and pristine. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent condition.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cosmos Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INITIALED BY AUTHOR on title page. 65 pages, b&w photographic plates. Blue boards w/ light soiling, fading. Light foxing to edges, front fly leaves and title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, spine faded, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 842 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1953 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Based on data collected from 8,000 females, this book covers all aspects of sexuality as it relates to the human female. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
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