Scribner, October 2022. Hardcover. Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences! Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more! In The Song of..... More
Scribner Book Company, February 2007. Trade Paperback. In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in..... More
Riverhead Books, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An NPR Best Book of 2022 "The questions throughout What If? 2 are equal parts brilliant, gross, and wonderfully absurd and the answers are thorough, deeply researched, and great fun. . . . Science isn't easy, but..... More
Springer, December 1984. Hardcover. Includes errata slip. More
Dover Publisher, January 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound, with unfortunate mildew odor. [117 pages plus thirteen page catalogue of Dover Books]. More
Simon & Schuster, December 2001. Mass Market PaperBack. "A Beautiful Mind tells a moving story and offers a remarkable look into the arcane world of mathematics and the tragedy of madness" (The New York Times Book Review). The true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who was a legend..... More
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long..... More
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long..... More
Riverhead Books, May 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long..... More
Quinnipiac University Press, September 2013. Hardcover. Medicine's Michelangelo is a remarkable and first major biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written by his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the character of the man and tells his life story using not only her remembrances but also Frank Netter's own autobiographical..... More
Great Seal Books/Cornell University Press, January 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. First printing for Great Seal Books, 1956; Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length gently creased from use; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy, considering age. More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2021. Hardcover. The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand. It is a...... More
Oxford, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo in heavily chipped/torn & tattered dustjacket. Front DJ flap is not clipped. Heavy stains & foxing on jacket front & verso. Pale blue cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Spine is sun bleached, as well as sunned edges of boards. Textblock top edge..... More
Penguin Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2022. Paper Back. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish--with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings..... More
Annual Reviews, December 2012. Hardcover. More
Penguin Books, June 2005. Trade Paperback. "The Invisible Century" is an original look at two of the most important revolutions?and revolutionaries?of the modern era. This dual biography of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud? and their parallel journeys of discovery that altered forever our understanding of the very nature of reality..... More
University of California Press, April 1990. Paper Back. The first U.S. nominee for the Nobel Prize, Jacques Loeb was trained in experimental physiology in Germany, joined the biology faculty of the new University of Chicago in 1892, later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to..... More
Clayton C Pierce, April 1997. Soft Cover. Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black binder and back cover of flexible cardstock with shiny textured outside and verso is plain black cardstock surface. The numeration of this version of Hobby Cryptography is even stranger than that..... More
Clayton C Pierce, 1998. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black wrap around cardstock (shiny & textured on outside and plain black on verso. (Report cover / perfect bound) xxii pages of introductory material, supplementory articles & index on dull yellow stock at..... More
Riverhead Books, January 2018. Hardcover. The instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice. --The Wall Street Journal Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks..... More
The MIT Press, January 1986. Paper Back. These essays tackle some of the central issues in visual cognition, presenting experimental techniques from cognitive psychology, new ways of modeling cognitive processes on computers from artificial intelligence, and new ways of studying brain organization from neuropsychology, to address such questions as: How..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2023. Hardcover. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before getting spaghettified..... More
Russell Sage Foundation, April 2004. Hardcover. The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science and an equally dramatic increase in the number of professionals leaving scientific careers. Leaving Science provides the first significant examination of this worrisome new..... More
Scribner, September 2022. Hardcover. *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands..... More
