Aegean Park Press, June 1977. Hardcover. Quarto; {8 & 1/2' x 11'}; pine green cardstock with darkened spine and margins on spine side front & back with black lettering on spine and front panel. Foxing/dust stains top textblock edge. Clean interiors, without markings, no underlining, etc. 80 pages. More
Aegean Park Press, October 1984. First Edition. Paper Back. Quarto; {8 & 1/2' x 11'}; Heavily sun-bleached spine. One smudge front cover and one curled stain on back. Cover is pale blue cardstock with black letterin. Mildly dust stained/foxed textblock edges.Interior text is without markings, no underlining, etc. 158 pages..... More
Aegean Park Press, December 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. 'Originally published in 1956 as classified text by the U.S. Government'. Quarto; {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'}; Grey textured cardstock; Sunned spine and margins. Foxing to textblock edges. Errata slip laid in. 465 pages. More
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., March 1985. Trade Paperback. Contents: Introduction, Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentioned in the Texts Index of the Subjects Mentioned in the Texts. More
Prometheus Books, October 1996. Hardcover. At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity. Weird Water..... More
Picador, January 2008. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue..... More
Dana Press, April 2005. Hardcover. Will increased scientific understanding of our brains overturn our beliefs about moral and ethical behavior? How will increasingly powerful brain imaging technologies affect the ideas of privacy and of self-incrimination? Such thought-provoking questions are rapidly emerging as new discoveries in neuroscience have raised difficult legal..... More
Princeton University Press, May 1978. First Edition. Cloth. Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has received little attention. Gerald Geison makes an important contribution to our knowledge of this neglected area by investigating the achievements of English physiologists..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2018. Hardcover. An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil..... More
University of Chicago Press, July 2017. Trade Paperback. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land..... More
Dover Publications, June 1977. Trade Paperback. For the philosopher, scientist, archaeologist, art historian, biologist, poet and artist, as well as the general reader who wants to understand more about the fascinating properties of numbers and geometry, and their relationship to art and life, this is a thought-provoking book. More
University of Georgia Press, July 2007. Trade Paperback. In "Good Observers of Nature" Tina Gianquitto examines nineteenth-century American women's intellectual and aesthetic experiences of nature and investigates the linguistic, perceptual, and scientific systems that were available to women to describe those experiences. Many women writers of this period used the..... More
Vintage Books USA, April 1991. Trade Paperback. A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything. A brilliant illumination of what the human race has made of itself and the world..... More
Crown, March 1989. Paper Back. More
Dover Publications, July 1987. Stapled Pamphlet. Fascinating, fun-filled book tells how to write and decipher coded messages. Easy-to-follow directions let even young beginners become experts in backward ciphers, false word division, null ciphers and more. Workbook includes ample space for decoding 68 secret messages. Solutions at end of book. Quarto..... More
Vintage, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling history of time travel--a concept that has preoccupied physicists and storytellers over the course of the last century. James Gleick delivers a mind-bending..... More
Random House Childrens Books, January 1958. Book Club. Hardcover. Stated sixth printing w/ book club blind-stamp present at rear board; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Sturdy boards w/ mild to moderate edge-wear present, some fraying at corners and spine, mild soiling present; Previous owner book-plate present at front free-end..... More
Aegean Park Press, April 1996. Paper Back. Quarto; {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'}; sunned spine. Foxing especially to first inside page and last page. Also foxing/dust stains to textblock edges. No markings, no underlining, no notes, etc. 155 pages. More
University of Chicago Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Edward Golub, distinguished researcher and former professor of immunology, shows that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating, and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard treatments for centuries because they conformed to..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2017. Trade Paperback. Over a decade since its original publication, Laurence Gonzales s bestselling Deep Survival has helped save lives from the deepest wildernesses, just as it has improved readers everyday lives. Its mix of adventure narrative, survival science, and practical advice has inspired..... More
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decorative cover design. Moire end pages. Two different pieces of Easton empherma laid in. One is unused Easton Press Ex-libris. The other a 4' x 6' double side cardstock 'note about Bully for Brontosaurus and the..... More
Schenkman, January 1967. Cloth. Octavo in edgeworn dustjacket with edgewear and rubbing. Dark brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Flap is not clipped. [330 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2023. Paper Back. A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes..... More
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, December 2002. Hardcover. Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded..... More
