Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 469 pages. Red-brown cloth, gilt. Boards have minor edgewear and bumped corners. Large folded map in back pocket. Binding tight, spine slightly cocked. Pages clean and unmarked, illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Why does sacrifice, more than any other major religious institution, depend on gender dichotomy? Why do so many societies oppose sacrifice to childbirth, and why are childbearing women so commonly excluded from sacrificial practices? In this feminist study of relations between sacrifice, gender, and social organization, Nancy Jay reveals sacrifice as a remedy for having been born of woman, and hence uniquely suited to establishing certain and enduring paternity. Drawing on examples of ancient and modern societies, Jay synthesizes sociology of religion, ethnography, biblical scholarship, church history, and classics to argue that sacrifice legitimates and maintains patriarchal structures that transcend men's dependence on women's reproductive powers.
Hardcover. Paris, Librairie Delagrave, reprints, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. Vol. 1: Premiere Partie- La Ligne Droite, Le Plan, Les Polyedres, 265 pages including fold-out diagrams. Vol. 2: Deuxieme Partie- Cones et Cylindres, Sphere et Surfaces du Second Degre, 714 pages including fold-outs. Ex-library copies in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. Usual stamping, residue to end papers, previous owner's signature, sticker shadow to bottom of spines. Internally clean, very good. Leather shows wear, especially volume one. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co, 3rd Ed., 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in bright red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 301 pages, b&w illustrations. Third and Revised Edition. Exceptionally bright copy with a small stain on fore-edge of text block, not affecting pages.
Softcover. 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. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st pbk, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1138 pages. Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society. Sun-fading to spine and spine edge, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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. Philadelphia , John Dickins, 2nd Ed., 1795, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes bound in one: 100 and 103 pages. The second volume; The Primitive Physic by John Wesley, 24th Edition, revised and corrected. Bound in contemporary calf, front top corner worn, scattered foxing. Early home remedies for all kinds of maladies. Previous owner's signature on title page otherwise clean, solid copy.
Hardcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Publishers, Revised Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Very minor dust jacket edge wear. Small crease on front dust jacket cover. SIGNED BY FORMER ASTRONAUT ALLEN on half title page and dated 1988. Lots of color photographs throughout. A very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. "It knocks me out, every day," she says. Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world's most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a sense of humor, invent, plot, and cope. They can teach us volumes about the interrelationships of humans and animals.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, The Medical World, 2nd Ed., 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. A collection of pharmaceutical mixtures, enlarged from the previous year's edition. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped and pristine. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Clean inside and out. In excellent condition.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cosmos Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. INITIALED BY AUTHOR on title page. 65 pages, b&w photographic plates. Blue boards w/ light soiling, fading. Light foxing to edges, front fly leaves and title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge [England] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, spine faded, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 842 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1953 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Based on data collected from 8,000 females, this book covers all aspects of sexuality as it relates to the human female. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 223 pages. In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.
Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop Company, 1st, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. B&w illustrations. Rubbing, wear to green cloth cover. Fraying to top and bottom of spine. Pages slightly warped. Damp stain on edge of title page. Front hinge cracking.
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.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages. A very clean, tight 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. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter company, more than a decade before the arrival of the Osborne 1, the Apple 1, the first Intel microprocessor, and IBM's PC5150.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Tijs Goldschmidt, a Dutch biologist, has been working for several years along the shores of East Africa's Lake Victoria, a freshwater sea the size of Switzerland. There he has chronicled the changing fortunes of the genus Haplochromis, made up of perchlike fish that differentiate into new species faster than any other vertebrates. Their numbers, however, fell precipitously after the Dutch government funded a fishery industry that harvested 60 tons of these cichlids daily; this industry also introduced nonnative species of fish that threatened to destroy the indigenous fauna. Goldschmidt writes of the mechanics of extinction--a process he says many biologists are loath to describe, for there "is always the hope that somewhere, hidden away, unnoticed, several individuals are still thriving." 274 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Cambridge, University Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 514 pages. The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor', and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms with Darwin. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, silver boards with white lettering on spine. In a worn dust jacket with chipping and fading. The 16 articles in this book were prepared for the Conference of Newtonian Studies, held at the University of Texas, 300 years after what Newton himself described as his best year (1665), when he returned to his hometown to escape the plague in Cambridge. Articles cover Newton's life and society, his scientific achievements, philosophical analyses of his scientific achievements, and Newton's influence. B&w illustrations. Mild soil to edges of front fly leaf, otherwise clean, no markings.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, comparing it with the known functions of the same sense in other animals. Odorous cues play a role in sexual physiology and behavior in animals and there are claims that odor can play the same role in humans. The place of odors and scents in aesthetics and in psychoanalysis serves to illustrate the link between the emotional centers and the brain. The book presents arguments to explain the way in which our ancestral past has given rise to our modern day olfactory enigmas. Contains a glossary and chapter summaries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white and color illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with moderate tanning to text block edges. Light tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable backward lean, with heavy sunning overall. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.
Softcover. Holland/Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 205 pages. Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), was a prominent German physicist and physician who comtributed to the philosophy of science. The Paul Hertz/Moritz Schlick Centenary Edition of 1921, with notes and commentary by the editors. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, b&w photos, 298 pages plus index. A biography of Albert Einstein written by a friend and colleague. Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique record. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Frank's biography anchors the reader with a lucid overview of physics and draws an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize-winner. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black and white, 433 pages. When it was published in 1543, Copernicus's new astronomy had an enormous impact on intellectual life in early modern Europe, but the reception of his new ideas differed fundamentally from one country to another. Rienk Vermij discusses how--unlike in Roman Catholic lands--discussion in the heavily Calvinist Dutch Republic was initially dominated by humanist scholars who judged Copernicus's work on its mathematical merits. Yet even in this environment, it could not escape eventual philosophical, religious, and political controversies. This book shows how Copernicus's astronomy changed from an alternative cosmology into an established worldview in the Dutch Republic. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 581 pages. B&W diagrams/illustrations in text. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. 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.
Hardcover. New York, VCH Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, 337 pages; indexes, appendices, extensive chemical diagramming and tables, with some b&w photographs; bumped bottom corner, previous owner's signature on front endpaper; cover shows minimal wear; "fourteen articles by leading researchers constituting the first book devoted exclusively to the biological utilization of nickel" (from the cover). Very tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed ruling and gilt lettering and design. 491 pages, b&w illustrations, plus errata page and a 24-page publisher's catalogue bound in. Clean, bright copy.
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. Cambridge MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 527 pages, 10.25 x 7.75 inches. Scarce ethnological and archeological study of Liberia's culture and myths. Large fold-out colored map, measuring 20.25 x 43 inches, is slipped into the inner rear cover. Copious illustrations and diagrams throughout. Light chipping to paper covers but with a very good interior. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading and agewear to spine of dj. This study of the metaphysics of G.W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural pholosophy.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 692 pages. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript Darwin had originally intended to complete and publish as the formal presentation of his views on evolution. Compared with the Origin, his original long manuscript work on Natural Selection, which is presented here and made available for the first time in printed form, has more abundant examples and illustrations of Darwin's argument, plus an extensive citation of sources. Name on title page otherwise a clean, sharp copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer-the wrong one-to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is the relationship between individual development (ontogeny) and the evolution of species and lineages (phylogeny)? In this, the first major book on the subject in fifty years, Stephen Jay Gould documents the history of the idea of recapitulation from its first appearance among the pre-Socratics to its fall in the early twentieth century. Clean copy.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1062 pages. This volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without unnecessary jargon, each chapter traces the development of its subject from earliest times to the present day, stressing the social context and its place in scientific thought. Usefully drawn with over 150 tables, drawings and photographs. Two comprehensive indexes of names and subjects. Essential reading for teachers and students in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Industrial History and Archaeology. Clean copy.
Hardcover. 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.
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