Sciences

Softcover. London/Rome, John Libbey, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 585 pages, b&w illustrations. Volume 3 only. Very clean and unmarked copy. Covers have very light wear.

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. Washington, Government Printing Office , 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages w/ index. Brown-red cloth, gilt lettering. Minor edgewear and corner bumps to boards. Several brown spots on end papers. Pages clean and unmarked. Folded map in back pocket. Illustrations throughout.

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.

Softcover. London, World Scientific Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Richard Feynman?s never previously published doctoral thesis formed the heart of much of his brilliant and profound work in theoretical physics. Entitled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics," its original motive was to quantize the classical action-at-a-distance electrodynamics. Because that theory adopted an overall space?time viewpoint, the classical Hamiltonian approach used in the conventional formulations of quantum theory could not be used, so Feynman turned to the Lagrangian function and the principle of least action as his points of departure. The result was the path integral approach, which satisfied ? and transcended ? its original motivation, and has enjoyed great success in renormalized quantum field theory, including the derivation of the ubiquitous Feynman diagrams for elementary particles. Path integrals have many other applications, including atomic, molecular, and nuclear scattering, statistical mechanics, quantum liquids and solids, Brownian motion, and noise theory. It also sheds new light on fundamental issues like the interpretation of quantum theory because of its new overall space?time viewpoint. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st pbk., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are peripheral to his philosophy and argues that mathematics is in fact central to his thought, developing out of his critique of abstraction. Jesseph's argument situates Berkeley's ideas within the larger historical and intellectual context of the Scientific Revolution.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 562 pages with index. This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprising fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work. Following an introduction that places Einstein's work in the context of his life and times, the book opens with essays on the papers of Einstein's 'miracle year', 1905, covering Brownian motion, light quanta, and special relativity, as well as his contributions to early quantum theory and the opposition to his light quantum hypothesis. Further essays relate Einstein's path to the general theory of relativity (1915) and the beginnings of two fields it spawned, relativistic cosmology and gravitational waves. Essays on Einstein's later years examine his unified field theory program and his critique of quantum mechanics. The closing essays explore the relation between Einstein's work and twentieth-century philosophy, as well as his political writings. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Academic Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Reconstitutions of Transporters, Receptors, and Pathological States presents lectures about the reconstitutions of transporters, receptors, and pathological states. The book discusses the principles and strategies of the resolution and reconstitution of soluble pathways and membrane complexes; and lessons in the resolution and reconstitution after the natural structure of the membrane has been destroyed. The text then describes the analyses of reconstituted vesicles; the ATP synthetase of oxidative phosphorylation; and the pumps of plasma membranes. The ATP-driven ion pumps in organelles, microorganisms, and plants; the proton motive force generators, electron transport chains, and bacteriorhodopsin; and facilitated diffusion, symporters, and antiporters are also considered. The book further tackles plasma membrane receptors, as well as the reconstitutions of pathological states. Biochemists, molecular biologists, and cell biologists will find the book invaluable. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

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.

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. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size.This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird.Every bird is shown life-size in glorious full-color photographs. Every species profile includes a flight map and key statistics, as well as information about behavior, plumage, and habitat.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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. 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.

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.

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.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 2nd Ed., 1983, Softcover, 506 pages. Contains the only complete English-language text of The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages. Tarski made extensive corrections and revisions of the original translations for this edition, along with new historical remarks. It includes a new preface and a new analytical index for use by philosophers and linguists as well as by historians of mathematics and philosophy. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages. Alexander Herzen-philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century-was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called "the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought." In an era dominated by ideologies of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted with his sense of reality, a sense honed by his unusually comprehensive understanding of history, philosophy, and the natural sciences. Following his unconventional decision to study science at university, he came to recognize the implications of early evolutionary theory, not just for the natural world but for human history. In this respect, he was a Darwinian even before Darwin. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Newport VT, J. M. Currier, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, a collection of scientific papers dated Oct. 1870 through July 1874. Bound in black cloth with black leather spine and corners, gilt lettering and rules on spine. Subjects include geology, Pawnee Indians, flora and fauna, birds of Vermont, etc. Small water stain to top edge margin of center pages, otherwise very good. Pencil inscription inside front cover reads: "Compliments of Dr. Currier, 1892". Previous owner's bookplate.

Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 3rd, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, fold-out maps. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light wear and tearing to maps. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers with slight bumping to corners. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 530 pages, ex-library bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. The usual stamping, end paper residue, sticker shadow and reference number at bottom of spine. Internally very good, clean. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Amsterdam/New York, Elsevier, 2nd Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Volume 2 only. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean and unmarked. Tight binding. Corners slightly bumped. Blue faux leather covers.

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Reprint of 1713 edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. B/w illustated frontispiece (painting of author). Tan cover boards, black title on spine and front cover board. Some slight foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. "Wherein are largely discussed, the production and use of mountains; the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods, and inundations of the sea; the eruptions of volcano's; the nature and causes of earthquakes."

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. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 504 pages. Ex-library from a university and was never circulated. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Four quarterly periodicals bound in one. Minimal stamping and residue. Previous owner's signature and 2 stickers on spine.(One covers the gilt title). Raised bands on spine, interior bright and clean. Tear to rear fly leaf.

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. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 804 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1948 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Pioneering study -- influential and highly controversial, followed five years later by the companion "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female." Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 339 pages. In this classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Albany NY, New York State Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1868-1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (approximately 400 pages, including 12 plates, 4 in color, featuring fungi and mushrooms). Half leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering, raised bands on spine. Light rubbing to boards otherwise very good, clean.

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 spectacularillustrations, 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. Theyshow 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. 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.

Hardcover. Ottawa, NRC Research Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 677 pages. Very clean, bright, and tight copy. Pages unmarked.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 281 pages. Clean, tight copy.

NY, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 363 pages, color, b&w photos, 31 drawings. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, St Martin's Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in an unclipped dust jacket that has some sun-fading, 471 pages, index, photography and illustrations -- Stated First Edition w/full # string and original price present. Burgundy cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title and decorative geodesic patterns on the spine. R. Buckminster Fuller became famous for being the inventor and designer of the Dymaxion House, the Dymaxion Car, and the Dymaxion Map. He also coined the term "Spaceship Earth". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Springer, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 894 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHORS on front fly leaf. This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biologicaland from an insular perspective, successful struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Marsh, Capen & Lyon, 1st, 1836, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Some expected agewear throughout: tanning to pages, light foxing, slight moisture stain along fore-edge, but overall in amazing shape for its age. Binding very good. Spine straight. Brown leather boards, paste on title label on spine. Spine damage at top--chipping (see image). A couple of pen marks to bottom of back cover board.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light-the core of what we now know as quantum theory-than he did about relativity.A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein-not Max Planck or Niels Bohr-was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal. Clean copy.

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.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Red embossed cloth cover, minor wear to corners and edges. Some foxing on front and rear endpages. Inside is bright and clean with b&w illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 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.