Garland Publishing, Inc., February 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Without dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering upon spine. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'}; Octavo. Foxing/tanning to textblock edges & end pages. Frontispiece and 15 illustrated plates. Tight binding. Internally without markings. No underlining. No notes. Etc. Folded promotion..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Originally published by Norton in 1933. Well worn with staining, sticker scars and previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [422 pages]. More
Penguin Press HC, The, September 2012. Hardcover. UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." --The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth..... More
Viking Books, July 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A witty and informed survey, "Adam's Navel" is a unique brew of science, history, and storytelling that illuminates our perception, exploitation, and celebration of the human body. Moving from head to toe in twelve chapters, Michael Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory..... More
Yale University Press, January 1996. Oversized Hardcover. The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440--at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas--is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif..... More
William Morrow, May 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness "No one writes about..... More
William Morrow, May 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness "No one writes about..... More
Princeton University Press, May 1997. Paper Back. In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation..... More
Cambridge University Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. 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
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. -- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists -- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award -- Named a...... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Trade Paperback. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those traveling..... More
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket is duststain with soiling, darkening at margins. Edgeworn with several tears along the top. Damp staining. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth with red & black cloth with gold lettering on spine and..... More
FONTANA PRESS, January 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Delta, January 1992. First Trade. Trade Paperback. From the little blue baby with a heart murmur to those desperate patients who undergo heart transplants, In the Country of Hearts brings the world of medicine down to its all-too-human level and shows the two hearts that beat in all of us--the..... More
Pal.-Relativitycollapse, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More
Three Rivers Press, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in..... More
Custom House, July 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. "THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." --The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle--deserve to be..... More
Routledge, August 2014. First Trade. Trade Paperback. In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. While readily acknowledging the astounding progress neuroscience has made in helping us understand how the brain..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 1998. Hardcover. Taking the reader around the world, stopping in France to examine 30,000-year-old cave paintings, in Africa to see where our earliest ancestors left their bones, and in remote forests to spy on our closest relatives, the great apes, Tattersall keeps his focus on the big..... More
Penguin Classics, December 2011. Trade Paperback. Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authorative volume of My Inventions includes three additional articles by Tesla which..... 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
Penguin, 1982. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in..... 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
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, May 1970. Stapled Pamphlet. Quarto. {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'} Stapled (2-staples) 115 pages cardstock (grey & white) cover.Cover is mildly edgeworn with foxing/marginal darkening. Dust stain textblock edges. More
