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. New York, Henry Holy, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt butterfly on cover, 322 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. A reprint of the original 1881 edition. Clean, tight 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.
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. London, John Van Voorst, 1st, 1857-59, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page.
Hardcover. NY, Plenum Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, orange cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, 245 pages. From the series MONOGRAPHS ON ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE. Clean copy.
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. 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.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 474 pages. SIGNED BY ROUGHGARDEN and dated on the title page.In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science-and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a fascinating discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including primates. Evolution's Rainbow explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. Roughgarden reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality. Witty, playful, and daring, this book will revolutionize our understanding of sexuality. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Braunschweig, Vieweg, 2nd Ed., 1898-99, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, ex-library set bound in half leather and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt lettering. A third volume was added by the author in 1908. Previous owner's signature and usual stamping and residue to end papers, sticker to bottom of spines. GERMAN TEXT.
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. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thomas, Cowpertwait and Company, 1st, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 396 pages, tan calf covers with black leather spine label with gilt title. B&W illustrations and charts throughout. Peeling on cover and short crack along spine edge. Light foxing to pages. Pencil signature of previous owner on front flyleaf. Clean internally.
Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in green, gilt title on spine and front cover. A touch of foxing to edges, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight. In very good shape.
Hardcover. London, Seeley Service & Co, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 349 pages, pictorial blue cloth with gilt, white and red design. Contains 35 black and white plates throughout. Paper tanning, book opened roughly at title page, blank bookplate on front fly leaf. Covers bright.
Hardcover. London, Ballier, Tindall & Cox, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering, embossed rules, beveled edges. 167 pages, b&w illustrations, 2 color plates at back of book. Bookplate inside front cover, minor wear to top of spine otherwise clean, very good.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 4th pr., 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather maroon binding over white boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering. 368 pages, drawings, diagrams and b&w photographs. The 200-inch Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar was one of the great achievements of the 20th century. Long the largest reflector (eclipsed eventually with new technology and the Hubble). this book chronicle the difficulties of construction and the many discoveries made with the aid of the Hale. No dust jacket. Gift bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY/London, Babcock & Wilcox, 28th Ed., 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with beveled edges, stamped in gilt. 182 pages, many b&w engravings and fascinating illustrations of their giant boilers and the customers/buildings that house them. The revised 28th Edition of the catalog which was first published in 1879. Covers with light wear, soil. From a private library with a bookplate on inside front cover. Interior clean.
Hardcover. Tuckahoe NY, USV Pharmaceutical Corp., reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages. Gilt title on spine.B&w plates by Christopher Wren. Owner's name in ink on half title page, else unmarked. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 104 pages, b&w illustrations. Biography of an 18th century man of medicine and natural science. Small name stamp on front fly leaf, oterwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 372 pages. A history of man, examining his physical and psychological evolution, as well as his response to needs for order, language, and culture. Mild bump to corners, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 443 pages, Volume 2: 390 pages. Some light marking to contents page in vol. 1, otherwise clean and tight set. Illustrated with b&w graphs and charts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, b&w illustrations, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine, bright dust jacket. Edited by Stephen Brush, C.W.F. Everitt and Elizabeth Garber.
Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Gotham, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. A highly entertaining exploration of the complicated science of quantum mechanics made easy to understand by way of pop culture. As a young science fiction fan, physicist James Kakalios marveled at the future predicted in the pulp magazines, comics, and films of the '50s and '60s. By 2010, he was sure we'd have flying cars and jetpacks. But what we ended up with-laptop computers, MRI machines, Blu-ray players, and dozens of other real-life marvels-are even more fantastic. In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, he explains why the development of quantum mechanics enabled our amazing present day.
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. London, Neville Spearman, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dj has tape repair on top edges, chipping, fraying and rubbing throughout dust jacket. Cover boards show medium wear on corners, as well as spine. Light foxing to fore edge text block. Black and white illustrations.
Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light green printed stapled wraps. 48 pages. A full-length translation of an unattributed article entitled "Some Problems of the Teaching of Political Economy" and published in the Soviet journal Pod Znamenem Marksizma in July-August, 1943. Light sunning to wraps,
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, William Heinemann , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that seem most uniquely and profoundly human--art, morality, consciousness, creativity, and language. Nor has natural selection offered solutions to how the human brain evolved so quickly--in less than 2 million years--and why such a large brain remains unique to our species. Now, in The Mating Mind, a pioneering work of evolutionary science, these aspects of human nature are at last explored and explained. Until fairly recently most biologists have ignored or rejected Darwin's claims for his other great theory of evolution--sexual selection through mate choice, which favors traits simply because they prove attractive to the opposite sex. But over the last two decades, biologists have taken up Darwin's insights into how the reproduction of the sexiest is as much a focus of evolution as the survival of the fittest. Clean copy.
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. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers, 610 pages. This book on medieval and early modern corpuscular matter theories presents the research results of nineteen scholars, who show that his modern model of matter has some of its roots in physical, medical, mathematical, alchemical, and theological conceptions developed in the Middle Ages. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 326 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages. The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's contribution. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Anthropological Society, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve cloth with yellow title label on front cover and spine, 265 pages followed by a bibliography. A collectible true first edition of this title, NOT the Panurge Press edition published the next year. Limited to 1000 copies Bloch is sometimes called "the first sexologist" for his research into sexual practices and the publication thereof. This is a classic book from an historical and anthropological standpoint, in that it retraces the importance fragrances have had in social interactions. Groundbreaking for its time, despite some errors, the aromatic substances mentioned by Bloch are still as pervasive in the perfume trade as they were at the time of his book. An excellent primer! Clean copy.
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. Germany, Gottingen, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 571 pages, reproduction of handwritten text in German by author. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, ex-library with usual stamping, residue to end papers, label on spine. Front and rear hinges cracked but interior, clean, very good. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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. London, Sherwood and Co., Later Edition, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Hardcover. Reprint edition dated 1825 - "A New and Improved Edition, Adapted to the Present State of Science by C. F. Partington". Illustrated with black & white drawings, diagrams. Body of book rebound in current covers at some point. Front hinge cracked, cloth tape along spine is weak, with faint remains of title label. Top 2" of title page missing. Light to moderate foxing to some plates/pages. Sold 'As-Is'.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, with illustrations by Bob Hines throughout and an introduction by Richard H. Pough. Minor dust jacket wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 528 pages. Hardcover. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf and initials on front dust jacket cover. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, Bookstore tag on front flap, dj has some agewear. Reprinted lithographically from sheets of the 1924 first edition.
Hardcover. Capetown SA, Tafelberg, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 273 pages, color plates throughout. The standard reference on the subject. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages, profusely illustrated in color and b/w. Written by an international team of scientists, The Enchanted Loom offers a sweeping look at the history of neuroscience from the philosophy of Aristotle to the advent of Artificial Intelligence. This collection of accessible, intriguing essays is supplemented by over 350 spectacular illustrations, many in color, with thorough and informative captions written by the scientists themselves. The authors discuss Descartes's contributions to thought about the brain, alongside brilliant artistic studies of the central nervous system that he and masters like da Vinci executed. They show how phrenology--the long discredited study of skull shape and mental faculties--actually represented a breakthrough in thinking about localized brain functions, and how the advent of the microscope and other equipment led to new discoveries. The contributors bring the story up to the present day, unfolding the emergence of the modern neurosciences, advances in molecular biology, and the debate over how infants learn language. In addition, the book offers a short history of computers and recent thought about whether the mind works like computer software. Noted contributors include; Larry Squire, writing on memory; Solomon Snyder, discussing psychopharmacology; and John Dowling on vision. Colorful, intelligent, informative, The Enchanted Loom offers an authoritative and enjoyable look at the history of a complex and fascinating science.
Softcover. NY, Routledge, 1st pbk, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 486 pages, b&w illustrations. Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettling questions about models of the family and of heterosexuality in primate research.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 242 pages, b&w illustrations and diagrams. Light underlining to 3 pages in front, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
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.
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. London, Vintage, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 468 pages. Traces Klein's theories on childhood development, criminality and childhood psychosis, symbol formation, and the early development of conscience. Clean copy.
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.
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