Simon & Schuster, June 2001. Trade Paperback. The classic personal account of Watson and Crick's groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind.By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry..... 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
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
University of Oklahoma, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy blue and black boards w/ gilt text at spine; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped dust jacket moderately worn w/ some tearing present at jacket rear; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of science and social history, James Vincent dives into its..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something..... More
University of North Carolina Press, April 1986. Flexible Boards. Identifies individual species and examines the habitat, annual cycle, and migration patterns of coastal and inland birds. More
Smith-Morley, July 1992. Oversize Softcover. Previous owner's name on the title page. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1981. Trade Paperback. Background materials include reproductions of the original scientific papers in which the double helical structure of DNA was first presented in 1953 and 1954. In Criticism, which begins with A Review of the Reviews by Gunther Stent, other scientists and..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1953. Paper Back. Cover clean & bright. Tan stain inside first few pages. [187 pp. plus nine page list of avialble Anchor titles.]. More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1953. Mass Market PaperBack. Badly torn (1/2-inch down from head of spine. Flaking and mild peeling of top layer of paper along spine rear fold. Mild wear at base of spine. General wear to wrapper edges front & back cover panels. Creasing to front cover. One..... More
Crown, March 1989. Paper Back. More
University of Arizona Press, December 1991. First Edition. Cloth. In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and..... More
