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History of the Inductive Sciences  (3 Volumes)by: Whewell, William

History of the Inductive Sciences (3 Volumes)
by: Whewell, William

Hardcover. London, Frank Cass & Co., reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcover volumes, a facsimile reprint of the third edition published in 1857 with an index added in part three. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering in black box on spine. Previous owner's signature on each front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Fading to red cloth on spines.

Record # 361869

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Avian Ecology And Conservation: A Pennsylvania Focus With National Implications by: Majumdar Shyamal K.; et al

Avian Ecology And Conservation: A Pennsylvania Focus With National Implications
by: Majumdar Shyamal K.; et al

Hardcover. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Brings together in one volume a comprehensive overview of Pennsylvania's avian communities, current and emerging conservation issues, and the specific contributions Pennsylvania biologists, avian ecologists, and conservationists have made to the science of ornithology. Clean.

Record # 372826

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The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computerby: Meryle Secrest

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
by: Meryle Secrest

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.

Record # 381274

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Practical Applied Electricity by: Moreton, David Penn

Practical Applied Electricity
by: Moreton, David Penn

Hardcover. Chicago, Frederick J. Drake & Co., Revised Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, 422 pages plus index. "A book in plain English for the practical man. Theory, practical applications and examples." B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt on spine faded, name on blank prelim page. Otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 382513

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The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle F. R. S.by: Maddison, R.E.W.

The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle F. R. S.
by: Maddison, R.E.W.

Hardcover. London, Taylor and Francis, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with gilt decoration and lettering. 332 pages, b&w illustraions. "Few names in the history of science are better known than that of the Honourable Robert Boyle, F.R.S., (1627-1691). His chemical and physical researches, his association with the early history of the Royal Society, and his influence on the development of scientific thought in the seventeenth century have been the subject of many general and specialized studies. Dr. Maddison's 'Life' is based on a close study of the Boyle papers and includes much new material. Its purpose is essentially to record the facts of Boyle's life and to serve as a guide to the numerous and varied, primary and secondary sources which are available for a study of his many scientific and other activities." Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 384256

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Theory of Scientific Methodby: Whewell, William, Editor: Butts, Robert E.

Theory of Scientific Method
by: Whewell, William, Editor: Butts, Robert E.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. The book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science whose influence has never been greater: every one of Whewell's fundamental ideas about the philosophy of science is presented here. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386347

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Archimedesby: Dijksterhuis, E. J.

Archimedes
by: Dijksterhuis, E. J.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton Universirty Press, 1st pbk, 1987, Softcover, 457 pages. With a new bibliographic essay by Wilbur R. Knorr. Translated by C. Dikshoorn. Reviewers praised this "brilliant analytic summary," "An edition and study of Archimedes' known works in which theorems are translated literally while a special notation, avoiding some of the implications of algebraic symbolism, is used to present paraphrases of the proofs." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Clean copy.

Record # 386879

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The Science of Life - 4 Volumes (SIGNED COPY)by: Wells, H. G., Julian Huxley, and G. F. Wells

The Science of Life - 4 Volumes (SIGNED COPY)
by: Wells, H. G., Julian Huxley, and G. F. Wells

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes. Original blue cloth spines, title printed in black on paper label affixed to spines. Blue paper-covered boards with H.G. Wells's facsimile signature in gilt on covers. Top edges gilt. Solid text blocks, rubbed corners, sunning to spines, a very good set. Internally bright with numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. The frontispiece of each volume contains a colorful illustration in a theme related to the subject matter of the work. A limited edition set, number 526 of 750 signed copies. Signed by H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, and G.F. Wells on the limitation page. Many illustrations and diagrams. Iconic work from the thirties on all things biological from two of the greatest exponents of science in the 20th century, along with Well's' son and zoologist, George Wells. Clean set, minor shelf wear. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398255

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Story of Medicine in America, Theby: Marks, Geoffrey and William K. Beatty

Story of Medicine in America, The
by: Marks, Geoffrey and William K. Beatty

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright, clean, unclipped dust jacket. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked.

Record # 403557

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Family Adviser, The: or A Plain and Modern Practice of Physic Calculated for the Use of Families Who Have Not the Advantages of a Physicianby: Wilkins, Henry

Family Adviser, The: or A Plain and Modern Practice of Physic Calculated for the Use of Families Who Have Not the Advantages of a Physician
by: Wilkins, Henry

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.

Record # 405889

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GIS and Water Resources: Proceedings, Awra Annual Symposium, September 22-26, 1996, Fort Lauderdale, Floridaby: Hallam, Cheryl A. (Other Contributor)

GIS and Water Resources: Proceedings, Awra Annual Symposium, September 22-26, 1996, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
by: Hallam, Cheryl A. (Other Contributor)

Softcover. Herndon, VA, American Water Resources Association, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages, minor corner and edge wear, ex-library stamp on half-title page, otherwise, unmarked, bright and tight copy.

Record # 457218

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James Syme, Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, 1833-1869by: Pemberton, Oliver

James Syme, Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, 1833-1869
by: Pemberton, Oliver

Hardcover. Birmingham, Eng, Royal College of Surgeons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bradshaw Lecture for 1894: A Study of His [Syme's] Influence and Authority on the Science and Art of Surgery During that Period. Syme was a leading surgeon of his day in Edinburgh's golden age of surgery. He was a master of surgical technique, a rival of Liston, a contemporary of Simpson and father-in-law and mentor of Joseph Lister. Hardcover, 27 pages. Red covers with gold lettering and decoration. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Light foxing to first and last pages. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Light soiling to rear cover, upper corner.

Record # 800467

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Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refugeby: Bass, Rick

Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
by: Bass, Rick

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and cover boards.

Record # 2233108

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Gran Quivira: Excavations in a 17th Century Jumano Pueblo (Archeological Research Series #8)  by: Vivian, Gordon

Gran Quivira: Excavations in a 17th Century Jumano Pueblo (Archeological Research Series #8)
by: Vivian, Gordon

Softcover. US, National Park Service , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Record # 353574

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The Butterflies of North America: A Natural History and Field Guideby: James A. Scott

The Butterflies of North America: A Natural History and Field Guide
by: James A. Scott

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press;, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 584 pages. The only field guide to cover all North American butterfly species, this monumental work is also a complete natural history, fully describing the biological and ecological world of butterflies in general. It is without question the most important book on butterflies in several decades, and the most complete treatment of a major butterfly faun ever published. The book is written at several levels of detail, most of it accessible to anyone, and employs the minimum of technical terms necessary for ensuring scientific accuracy. Extensive introductory material-a book in itself-stresses butterfly biology and ecology: structure, flight, metamorphosis, hibernation, physiology, roosting, migration, mating, egg laying, intelligence, social behavior, larval and adult foods, enemies, mimicry, variation, evolution, habitats, distribution, and conservation. The main text is arranged in phylogenetic sequence, and characteristics or behavior common to all members of a family, subfamily, or tribe are discussed at those levels. The skippers, a large group often excluded, are treated in full. Several unique features make identification easier and more certain than with any other field guide. First, every species (and many subspecies) of butterfly ever recorded north of Mexico (or in Bermuda or Hawaii) is treated at length and illustrated in color. Over 1,800 butterflies representing all 679 species (males, females, uppersides, undersides, subspecies, etc.) are illustrated on 42 full-page plats. Another 136 color photographs illustrate the various life forms in natural habitat: eggs, larvae, pupae, and the more familiar and more spectacular adults.

Record # 371712

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Flying Blind: One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats (SIGNED COPY)by: Mitchell, Don

Flying Blind: One Man's Adventures Battling Buckthorn, Making Peace with Authority, and Creating a Home for Endangered Bats (SIGNED COPY)
by: Mitchell, Don

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.

Record # 378853

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Welch Laboratory Apparatus 1968 by: N/A

Welch Laboratory Apparatus 1968
by: N/A

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.

Record # 381973

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The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750by: Rienk Vermij

The Calvinist Copernicans: The Reception of the New Astronomy in the Dutch Republic, 1575-1750
by: Rienk Vermij

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.

Record # 383965

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Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait by: Reiser, Anton

Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait
by: Reiser, Anton

Hardcover. London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1st UK, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, frontis. portrait, 223 pages. First UK edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einsteins stepdaughter, writing under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Foreword by Albert Einstein. First published in the US in 1930. Clean copy.

Record # 385995

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Ontogeny and Phylogenyby: Stephen Jay Gould

Ontogeny and Phylogeny
by: Stephen Jay Gould

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.

Record # 386618

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Trees by: Beaty, John Y.

Trees
by: Beaty, John Y.

Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format hardcover, no dust jacket, green cloth spine and color-illustrated covers, beautiful copy of this vintage publication, measures 12 inches by 10 inches and features 66 photographic illustrations. Author was a former associate of Luther Burbank.

Record # 397433

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Biochemistry of Zincby: Prasad, Ananda

Biochemistry of Zinc
by: Prasad, Ananda

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.

Record # 401532

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Traite de Geometrie Descriptive (2 Volumes)by: Javary, A.

Traite de Geometrie Descriptive (2 Volumes)
by: Javary, A.

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.

Record # 405430

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The Theory of the Geneby: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

The Theory of the Gene
by: Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Hardcover. New York, Taylor & Francis, Inc./Garland, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 343 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454903

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Ethical Dilemma of Science and Other Writings, Theby: Hill, A. V.

Ethical Dilemma of Science and Other Writings, The
by: Hill, A. V.

Hardcover. New York, Rockefeller Institute Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, 395 pages. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Clean, tight cover.

Record # 608422

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Nature and Development of Plantsby: Curtis, A.M., Ph.D., Carlton C.

Nature and Development of Plants
by: Curtis, A.M., Ph.D., Carlton C.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 471 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine. Cover has some faint smudges, and some fraying to corners and edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations and educational diagrams throughout.

Record # 852701

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Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations (Volumes 1-2)by: Hartley, David

Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations (Volumes 1-2)
by: Hartley, David

Hardcover. Hildesheim, Germany, Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, Reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volumes 1-2. Hardcovers. Vol. 1: 512 pages. Vol. 2: 455 pages plus index. Green cloth covers, gilt title on black on spine and gilt title on front cover boards. top edge dyed. Key work by British philosopher, explaining his theories on the mind-body connection, including his doctrines of vibrations and associations, the formation and growth of consciousness, etc. Clean copies.

Record # 99065

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War and the Soviet Union: Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Soviet Military and Political Thinking by: H.S. Dinerstein

War and the Soviet Union: Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Soviet Military and Political Thinking
by: H.S. Dinerstein

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Rand Corporation, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 265 pages. Ivory paper wraps with toning. Light toning to pages throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. This is a first printing of this important study for the U.S. Air Force by the Rand Corporation, dated August 11, 1958, Rand Report R-326.

Record # 371237

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Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing - Fourth Edition (Princeton Science Library)by: Richard Langton Gregory

Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing - Fourth Edition (Princeton Science Library)
by: Richard Langton Gregory

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.

Record # 374336

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The Typewriter Legendby: Masi, Frank T. (Editor)

The Typewriter Legend
by: Masi, Frank T. (Editor)

Softcover. Secaucus NJ, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, reprint, 1985, Book: Good, Softcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations. The typewriter has had a profound effect on both the business world and social communication. This book is a treasure of well-researched information documenting the earliest introduction of a machine for impressing letters to the electronic typewriters of the early 1980s. The book contains over 100 black & white photographs tracing the history of the typewriter and is a useful resource for typewriter collectors. Spotting to edges not affecting inside pages.

Record # 381758

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Femaleby: Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, Paul Gerhard& Clyde E. Martin

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
by: Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, Paul Gerhard& Clyde E. Martin

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.

Record # 383382

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Venereal Diseases: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by: Hayden, James R.

Venereal Diseases: A Manual for Students and Practitioners
by: Hayden, James R.

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.

Record # 385437

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Marcello Malpighi And The Evolution Of Embryology - Five Volumesby: Adelmann, Howard B.

Marcello Malpighi And The Evolution Of Embryology - Five Volumes
by: Adelmann, Howard B.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five large folio volumes, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 2475 pages, b/w and colored illus. (including foldouts. Vol.1 is a biography of Malpighi; the remaining 4 volumes provide an extensive account of the development of embryology. In publisher's slipcase. All clean, excellent condition. NOTE: These are five large and heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386461

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The Preservation of Species; The Value of Biological Diversityby: Norton, Bryan G. (Editor).

The Preservation of Species; The Value of Biological Diversity
by: Norton, Bryan G. (Editor).

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 387834

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Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologiesby: Roberto Simanowski

Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies
by: Roberto Simanowski

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 156 pages. Intelligence services, government administrations, businesses, and a growing majority of the population are hooked on the idea that big data can reveal patterns and correlations in everyday life. Initiated by software engineers and carried out through algorithms, the mining of big data has sparked a silent revolution. But algorithmic analysis and data mining are not simply byproducts of media development or the logical consequences of computation. They are the radicalization of the Enlightenment's quest for knowledge and progress. Data Love argues that the "cold civil war" of big data is taking place not among citizens or between the citizen and government but within each of us.

Record # 399278

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Traite de Geometrie Descriptive (2 Vols.)by: La Gournerie, Jules de

Traite de Geometrie Descriptive (2 Vols.)
by: La Gournerie, Jules de

Hardcover. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 3rd Ed., 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: Texte (in 3 parts), 157, 222, 230 pages. Vol. 2: Atlas (matching 3 parts), 55, 52, 46 full-page plates. Ex-library copies, bound in half leather and marbled boards. Spines with raised ribs, gilt titles. Leather with rubbing, edgewear to covers, previous owner's signature and usual college library stamping. Otherwise clean, tight copies. French text throughout.

Record # 405372

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Handbook on Toxicity of Inorganic Compoundsby: Seiler, Hans G., others

Handbook on Toxicity of Inorganic Compounds
by: Seiler, Hans G., others

Hardcover. New York/Basel, Marcel Dekker, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 1069 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 450707

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A. Corn. Celsi Medininaeby: Milligan, M.D., Eduardus

A. Corn. Celsi Medininae
by: Milligan, M.D., Eduardus

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Maclachlan & Stewart, 2nd, 1831, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 639 pages. Text in Latin. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper.

Record # 606830

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Science and Practice of Medicine, The (2 Vols)by: Aitken, M.D., William

Science and Practice of Medicine, The (2 Vols)
by: Aitken, M.D., William

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 2nd, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol I 927 pages plus publishers ads. Vol II 1079 pages. Full leather binding with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Edge wear, rubbing and scuffs to covers. Both volumes rear hinge cracked, but bindings still tight and strong. Pages clean and bright. previous owner's embossed stamp to front and rear end papers. Musty odor.

Record # 809355

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HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No 1381 by: Mulford, Furman Lloyd

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No 1381
by: Mulford, Furman Lloyd

Softcover. Washington DC, United States Department of Agriculture, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover Original black and white stapled wrapper with black lettering and a black and white photograph on the front cover. 5 3/4 X 9 inches. 84 pages. Copy contains 65 black and white photographs. Contents in this issue, Hardy perennial plants, use of herbaceous perennials, arrangement, culture, propagation, kinds to use, regions with similar growing conditions, adaptability of different kinds of plants, index of common names.

Record # 363576

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Round the Year with the Stars: The Chief Beauties of the Starry Heavens as Seen with the Naked Eyeby: Serviss, Garrett P.

Round the Year with the Stars: The Chief Beauties of the Starry Heavens as Seen with the Naked Eye
by: Serviss, Garrett P.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers , 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with bright gilt design, 147 pages. B&w and 2-color plates. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 372904

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The Scented Ape: The Biology and Culture of Human Odour by: Stoddart, D. Michael

The Scented Ape: The Biology and Culture of Human Odour
by: Stoddart, D. Michael

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.

Record # 381522

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Modern Theory of Physical Phenomena: Radio-Activity, Ions, Electrons by: Righi, Augusto/Trowbridge, Augustus (transl.)

Modern Theory of Physical Phenomena: Radio-Activity, Ions, Electrons
by: Righi, Augusto/Trowbridge, Augustus (transl.)

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green pebbled cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 165 pages including index plus 4 pages of publisher's ads. This is the first English translation and first American edition of the classic work originally published in Italy. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 382804

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Elements, Principles, and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century by: Clericuzio, Antonio

Elements, Principles, and Corpuscles: A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century
by: Clericuzio, Antonio

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.

Record # 384338

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Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Facsimile of Third Edition with Variant Readings; Vols. 1 and 2. in Latin.by: Newton, Isaac edited by Alex

Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Facsimile of Third Edition with Variant Readings; Vols. 1 and 2. in Latin.
by: Newton, Isaac edited by Alex

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st thus., 1972, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Folio. [4], v-xl, [2], 1-547, [3]; [7], 548-916 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, taken from the 1726 edition of Newton's Principia. Also illustrated with 67 in-text diagrams, from the original editions. Facsimile half-title, title, and text pages as well, all taken from the first three published editions of Newton's Principia. Assembled and edited by Alexandre Koyre and I. Bernard Cohen with the assistance of Anne Whitman. This edition of Isaac Newton's Principia is the first edition that enables the reader to see at a glance the stages of evolution of the work from the completion of the manuscript draft of the first edition in 1685 to the publication of the third edition, authorized by Newton, in 1726. A series of appendices provides additional material on the development of the Principia; the contributions of Roger Cotes and of Henry Pemberton; drafts of Newton's preface to the third edition; a bibliography of the Principia, describing in detail the three substantive editions and all the known subsequent editions; an index of names mentioned in the third edition; and a complete table of contents of the third edition. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf of both volumes. Otherwise a bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386352

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Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior by: Richards, Robert J.

Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
by: Richards, Robert J.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 700 pages, b&w illustrations. With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth century were Charles Darwin's ideas about instinct, reason, and morality, which Richards considers against the background of Darwin's personality, training, scientific and cultural concerns, and intellectual community. Many critics have argued that the Darwinian revolution stripped nature of moral purpose and ethically neutered the human animal. Richards contends, however, that Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and their disciples attempted to reanimate moral life, believing that the evolutionary process gave heart to unselfish, altruistic behavior. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386940

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Letters to Father: Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633by: Sobel, Dava (translator)

Letters to Father: Sister Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
by: Sobel, Dava (translator)

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.

Record # 398967

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Electrolyte & Water Transport Across Gastrointestinal Epitheliaby: Case (Ed.), R. Maynard Case and others

Electrolyte & Water Transport Across Gastrointestinal Epithelia
by: Case (Ed.), R. Maynard Case and others

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.

Record # 403590

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Sylvan Musings or The Spirit of the Woodsby: Hey, Mrs.

Sylvan Musings or The Spirit of the Woods
by: Hey, Mrs.

Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, reprint, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages, illustrated with 24 brilliant color plates including the frontispiece. Original green cloth with gilt decorated front cover, gilt design on spine, top edge gilt. Covers with light edge wear, chipping to top of spine. Title page states New Edition, so assumed a reprint. The plates do not appear to be hand-colored but chromolithographs, all brilliantly colored and except for the frontispiece (which has a touch of foxing) all are clean and unblemished. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 406888

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Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programmesby: Centre, WELL Resource

Guidance Manual on Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes
by: Centre, WELL Resource

Softcover. DFID, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages, with illustrations and charts, spiral bound. Minor corner and edge wear and fade, previous owner's inscription on rear fly leaf, otherwise, unmarked and bright copy.

Record # 457221

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