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. Bristol/Philadelphia, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1st , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages, b&w illustrations. All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire. England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 581 pages. B&W diagrams/illustrations in text. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 377 pages. A pleasing copy of these letters from Galileo's daughter that capture life in a convent in the early seventeenth century and of course the love of her father as well. Side-by-side Italian and English text. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Delagrave, reprints, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: Premiere Partie- La Ligne Droite, Le Plan, Les Polyedres, 265 pages including fold-out diagrams. Vol. 2: Deuxieme Partie- Cones et Cylindres, Sphere et Surfaces du Second Degre, 714 pages including fold-outs. Ex-library copies in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. Usual stamping, residue to end papers, previous owner's signature, sticker shadow to bottom of spines. Internally clean, very good. Leather shows wear, especially volume one. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co, 3rd Ed., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Third and Revised Edition. Exceptionally bright copy with a small stain on fore-edge of text block, not affecting pages.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 692 pages. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources. Name on title page otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer-the wrong one-to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Clean copy.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1062 pages. This volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without unnecessary jargon, each chapter traces the development of its subject from earliest times to the present day, stressing the social context and its place in scientific thought. Usefully drawn with over 150 tables, drawings and photographs. Two comprehensive indexes of names and subjects. Essential reading for teachers and students in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Industrial History and Archaeology. 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.
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, 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.
Hardcover. New York, Appleton and Co., reprint, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three separate hardcover volumes: Vol. 1 - 642 pages. Vol. 2 divided into two parts, 302 pages, 303-696 pages. All bound in half leather with matching marbled boards. Leather is chipped and cracked in places. Overall, a clean and tight set, small name label on front pastedowns. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Tijs Goldschmidt, a Dutch biologist, has been working for several years along the shores of East Africa's Lake Victoria, a freshwater sea the size of Switzerland. There he has chronicled the changing fortunes of the genus Haplochromis, made up of perchlike fish that differentiate into new species faster than any other vertebrates. Their numbers, however, fell precipitously after the Dutch government funded a fishery industry that harvested 60 tons of these cichlids daily; this industry also introduced nonnative species of fish that threatened to destroy the indigenous fauna. Goldschmidt writes of the mechanics of extinction--a process he says many biologists are loath to describe, for there "is always the hope that somewhere, hidden away, unnoticed, several individuals are still thriving." 274 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Cambridge, University Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 514 pages. The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, silver boards with white lettering on spine. In a worn dust jacket with chipping and fading. The 16 articles in this book were prepared for the Conference of Newtonian Studies, held at the University of Texas, 300 years after what Newton himself described as his best year (1665), when he returned to his hometown to escape the plague in Cambridge. Articles cover Newton's life and society, his scientific achievements, philosophical analyses of his scientific achievements, and Newton's influence. B&w illustrations. Mild soil to edges of front fly leaf, otherwise clean, no markings.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, comparing it with the known functions of the same sense in other animals. Odorous cues play a role in sexual physiology and behavior in animals and there are claims that odor can play the same role in humans. The place of odors and scents in aesthetics and in psychoanalysis serves to illustrate the link between the emotional centers and the brain. The book presents arguments to explain the way in which our ancestral past has given rise to our modern day olfactory enigmas. Contains a glossary and chapter summaries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white and color illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with moderate tanning to text block edges. Light tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable backward lean, with heavy sunning overall. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.
Softcover. Holland/Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 205 pages. Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), was a prominent German physicist and physician who comtributed to the philosophy of science. The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick Centenary Edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, b&w photos, 298 pages plus index. A biography of Albert Einstein written by a friend and colleague. Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique record. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize-winner. No dust jacket, 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.
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