Houghton Mifflin, January 2001. Hardcover. Welcome to the world of cutting-edge math, physics, and neuroscience, where the search for the ultimate vacuum, the point of nothingness, ground zero of theory, has rendered the universe deep, rich, and juicy. "Modern physics has animated the void," says K. C. Cole in her..... 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
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1996. Trade Paperback. The book is divided into nine parts--Natural Philosophy, Scientific Method, Experimental Procedure, Optics, Rational Mechanics, Systems of the World, Alchemy and Theory of Matter, Theology, and Mathematics. Text and commentary are woven together, enabling readers to concentrate on the aspects..... More
Tarcher, April 2006. Trade Paperback. An amateur astronomer documents a year spent observing the night sky and building an observatory in his New England backyard, offering additional background information on the history of armchair astronomy and how it has assisted the scientific community. By the author of The Unspeakable. Reprint..... More
Nan A. Talese, November 1999. Hardcover. From the author of the highly acclaimed 'Worldly Goods, ' a brilliant rethinking of the most exciting period in science--the Renaissance--connecting the era's famous leaps of imagination in the humanities with the creative inspiration behind its scientific discoveries. Very light foxing; rear jacket flap..... More
NYU Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Ever since Gutenberg invented movable type we have lived in a culture dominated by print. Now we are in the midst of a communications revolution as profound as that which saw the printed book replace oral and manuscript texts. Hypertext- a way of connecting..... More
MIT Press, May 2005. Hardcover. How global biotechnology is redefining life itself. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks..... 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
University of Alabama Research Foundation, 2014. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x 9'} Amber colored cloth covered boards with black lettering. Clean, sound. Tightly bound. Well cared for. Pine green end pages. [177 pages]. More
Penguin Books, January 1971. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild shelf wear. Creased at spine. [316 pp.]. More
Signet, June 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
University of Kansas Press, January 1956. Cloth. Octavo. DJ is missing. Library discard from Kansas Univesity Library with several stamps: on fore-edge, ffep and title page. A small sticker on lower left hand corner and larger sticker on front pastedown, plus several of the usual ex-library markings. Brown cloth covered..... More
Liveright, August 2020. Hardcover. "Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to..... More
Merlin Books, January 1988. First Thus. Paper Back. Uncommon title. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/4'} First UK paperback edition. Sun lightened spine. Errata slip taped to half title page -- same page with previous reader's name hand written in ink. Else, without markings. [491 pp.]. More
History of Health Sciences / Crossroads Books, 1985. First Edition. Paper Back. More
Medical Library Association / Waverly Press, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [300 pp.]. 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
Cambridge University Press, January 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. Biology was introduced with the nineteenth century. The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. First Touchstone paperback edition. 2nd printing. Sound, clean & unmarked interiors. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. [256 pp.]. More
Dover Pubns, June 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion;..... More
Pantheon, February 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with sun lightened spine. Conversely sun darkened margins to cover verso and textblock pages. [349 pp.]. More
W. W. Norton, January 1945. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Brick red with sunned spine. Previous readers' inscription front end pages. Dustjacket is missing. A piece of dustjacket (rear flap and panel) taped to rear free end page. According to jacket fragment this is 'revised and enlarged edition'. However, acccording to..... More
Belknap Press, May 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dark grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangle field on spine. In edgeworn dustjacket with torn/chipped spine base. Slightly lighter grey end pages.A previous reader's name written in ink upper right corner of fep. [520 pages]. 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
The Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1986. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
