Biology

Hardcover. London, John Van Voorst, 1st, 1857-59, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, matching maroon cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Vol. I. Comprising the butterflies and stout-bodied moths. 338 pages. Vol. II. Comprising the slender-bodied and small moths. 480 pages. Small b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front covers, signed on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2000, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a full-scale theory of consciousness based on direct observation of the human brain in action. Their pioneering work, presented here in an elegant style, challenges much of the conventional wisdom about consciousness. The Universe of Consciousness has enormous implications for our understanding of language, thought, emotion, and mental illness.

Hardcover. London, Academic Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Cover boards bound in green, gilt title on spine and front cover. A touch of foxing to edges, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight. In very good shape.

Hardcover. 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. University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 481 pages. A portrait of the timber rattlesnake, its place in America's pantheon of creatures and in our own frontier history--and of the heroic efforts to protect it against habitat loss, climate change, and the human tendency to kill what we fear. Taking us from labs where the secrets of the snake's evolutionary history are being unlocked to far-flung habitats whose locations are fiercely protected by biologists and dedicated amateur herpetologists alike, Levin paints a picture of a fascinating creature: peaceable, social, long-lived, and, despite our phobias, not inclined to bite. The timber rattler emerges here as emblematic of America and also, unfortunately, of the complicated, painful struggles involved in protecting and preserving the natural world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10".

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., Reprint, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 299 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w. This is an abridged translation by Hugh S.R. Elliot and A.G. Thacker.Introduction by P. Chalmers Mitchell. Red cloth, gilt decorations to front and spine. Slight wear along edges and spine, light soiling to covers, faint foxing to top edge, front hinge cracked, else a very neat copy.

Hardcover. 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. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 330 pages, illustrated throughout with maps, charts and photographs in b&w. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, white pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges of jacket, faint foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 312 pages. Green cloth, silver title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Allergy is the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. More than fifty million Americans suffer from allergies, and they spend an estimated $18 billion coping with them. Yet despite advances in biomedicine and enormous investment in research over the past fifty years, the burden of allergic disease continues to grow. Why have we failed to reverse this trend? Breathing Space offers an intimate portrait of how allergic disease has shaped American culture, landscape, and life. Drawing on environmental, medical, and cultural history and the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman traces how America's changing environment from the late 1800s to the present day has led to the epidemic growth of allergic disease. We have seen a never-ending stream of solutions to combat allergies, from hay fever resorts, herbicides, and air-conditioned homes to numerous potions and pills. But, as Mitman shows, despite the quest for a magic bullet, none of the attempted solutions has succeeded. Until we address how our changing environment--physical, biological, social, and economic--has helped to create America's allergic landscape, that hoped-for success will continue to elude us. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wash, D.C., Dept of Commerce, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 488 pages, 53 full page plates (30 are fine chromolithographs), 110 text-figures. Fold-out map. Sound, tight, clean. The work contains the following monographs: Evermann - The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras (3 chromolithograph plates of trout); Sumner - The Physiological Effects upon Fishes of changes in the density and salinity of water; MacFarland - Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and Vicinity (10 chromolithograph plates); Moore - Hirudinea and Oligochaeta in the Great Lakes (1 chromolithograph plate); The Fishes of Samoa: Description of the Species Found in the Archipelago, with a Provisional Check-List of the Fishes of Oceania (16 chromolithograph plates). The final monograph by David Starr Jordan on "The Fishes of Samoa"Several small holes to cloth along spine. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holy, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt butterfly on cover, 322 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. A reprint of the original 1881 edition. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering, 199 pages. This radical book by Nobel laureate Monod is an important intellectual event. Chance and Necessity is a philosophical statement whose intention is to sweep away as both false and dangerous the animist conception of man that has dominated virtually all Western worldviews from primitive cultures to those of dialectical materialists. He bases his argument on the evidence of modern biology, which indisputably shows, that man is the product of chance genetic mutation. With the unrelenting logic of the scientist, he draws upon what we now know (and can theorize) of genetic structure to suggest an new way of looking at ourselves. He argues that objective scientific knowledge, the only reliable knowledge, denies the concepts of destiny or evolutionary purpose that underlie traditional philosophies. He contends that the persistence of those concepts is responsible for the intensifying schizophrenia of a world that accepts, and lives by, the fruits of science while refusing to face its moral implications. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 132 pages of German text followed by 264 b&w plates. A catalog of nature studies by the artist, mostly botanical. Cclean copy.

Hardcover. Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 629 pages. b&w diagrams. Light smudges to fore edge; else a very clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine. Tijs Goldschmidt, a Dutch biologist, has been working for several years along the shores of East Africa's Lake Victoria, a freshwater sea the size of Switzerland. There he has chronicled the changing fortunes of the genus Haplochromis, made up of perchlike fish that differentiate into new species faster than any other vertebrates. Their numbers, however, fell precipitously after the Dutch government funded a fishery industry that harvested 60 tons of these cichlids daily; this industry also introduced nonnative species of fish that threatened to destroy the indigenous fauna. Goldschmidt writes of the mechanics of extinction--a process he says many biologists are loath to describe, for there "is always the hope that somewhere, hidden away, unnoticed, several individuals are still thriving." 274 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 511 pages. Determined offers a marvelous synthesis of what we know about consciousness--the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky takes out all the major arguments for free will, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos theory and quantum physics. But as Sapolsky acknowledges, it's sometimes impossible to uncouple from our zeal to judge people, including ourselves. Determined applies this new understanding to some of our most essential questions around punishment, morality, and living well together. Most of all, Sapolsky argues that while accepting the reality about free will is monumentally difficult, it will make for a much more humane world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages. Bound in leather with gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, textured endpapers, sewn in marker and embossed spine. No dust jacket as issued. Beautiful copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Middlesex UK, Country Life Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes in slipcase. Volume 1 - 414 pages plus section of black & white "Under-wing Plates". Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Volume 2 - 500 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Both volumes with brown cloth covers, gilt titles and decoration. A set that shows minimal wear to books and slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London UK, Chapman & Hall, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 510 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial laminated boards, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges of spine. else a very neat, clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. BirdLife International, 1st, January 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 846 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. Small marks on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.