Hanover House, January 1956. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy black boards w/ yellow lettering at front and spine; Text free of markings; Mild foxing present at paste-downs; Un-clipped book club dust jacket mildly edge-worn; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy. More
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
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Originally published by Macmillian. Reprinted & revised by Anchor for this addition. Shelf worn, dust stained with heavy darkening at margins and spine. [345 pages]. More
Perseus Books Group, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him--how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious, political, and social issues of his day. Now, a wonderful book--based on a previously unpublished..... More
Gibbs Smith Publishers, April 2011. Hardcover. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1999. Paper Back. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2023. Paper Back. "Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth--from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago."--The Economist LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE..... More
The MIT Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. The news about wildlife is dire--more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there..... More
Twelve, February 2023. Paper Back. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they..... More
Barnes & Noble Books, January 2004. Cloth. More
Island Press, September 1997. Trade Paperback. " Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about..... More
Roost Books, February 2023. Hardcover. Reclaim your cycle and support your health with this detailed guide featuring 100+ recipes and practices from RN, and author of How to Grow a Baby, Amy Hammer. There is no one-size-fits-all guide to your cycle. But registered nurse Amy Hammer arms you with a...... More
Pantheon, May 2011. Hardcover. If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can..... More
The Penguin Press, August 2009. Hardcover. Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In "The Healing of America, New York Times" bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine. 3 rusted staples. Previous reader's name written in ink on verso. Soiled/torn half title page. [197 pages plus three list of Anchor titles.]. 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
Doubleday Anchor, January 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Edgeworn. First inside page upper right corner torn. Dust stains. Darkening. Binding weak/starting. [134 pages plus two page list of Anchor & Dolphin titles.]. More
Penguin Books, November 2019. Mass Market PaperBack. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates. --Barack Obama The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation..... More
Modern Library, July 1977. Reprint. Hardcover. With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!," for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. 2nd (Anchor) edition. Edgeworn mass market paperback with darkened spine. Non-authorial inscription on half title page. Dust stains to textblock edges. Uncommon edition. [316 pages]. More
Iris Books (Oxford University Press), 1945. First Thus. Oversized Hardcover. First English Edition; Solid binding, mildly worn at spine; Clean, sturdy cloth covered boards; Mild foxing present at paste-downs/end-pages; Text/Colour Plates free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket mildly worn, now housed in protective mylar for further preservation; An excellent copy..... More
Basic Books, June 2022. Hardcover. A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 1998. Trade Paperback. From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research..... More
The Nuri Group, June 2019. Paper Back. K. Rashid Nuri had a powerful "burning bush" revelation while a student at Harvard. The experience set him on a global food odyssey, managing agricultural operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. Rashid saw, up close, the abuses and inefficiencies of Big..... More
Houghton Mifflin, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and..... More
