Dover Publications, September 1983. Trade Paperback. A caution to mathematics professors: Complex Variables does not follow conventional outlines of course material. One reviewer noting its originality wrote: A standard text is often preferred [to a superior text like this] because the professor knows the order of topics and the problems..... More

Aegean Park Press, 1976. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto; Pale blue cardstock cover with sun-tanned spine and edges. Dust stained top and bottom edge and fore-edge. 113 pages. I assume this is first softcover edition. More

Aegean Park Press, June 1977. Hardcover. Quarto; {8 & 1/2' x 11'}; pine green cardstock with darkened spine and margins on spine side front & back with black lettering on spine and front panel. Foxing/dust stains top textblock edge. Clean interiors, without markings, no underlining, etc. 80 pages. More

Aegean Park Press, December 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. 'Originally published in 1956 as classified text by the U.S. Government'. Quarto; {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'}; Grey textured cardstock; Sunned spine and margins. Foxing to textblock edges. Errata slip laid in. 465 pages. More

Prometheus Books, October 1996. Hardcover. At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber skeptical books by more than a thousand to one, Americans need a voice of sanity. Weird Water..... More

Metropolitan Books, October 2014. Hardcover. #1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease..... More

Picador, January 2011. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever..... 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

University of Chicago Press, July 2017. Trade Paperback. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land..... More

Crown, March 1989. Paper Back. More

Dover Publications, July 1987. Stapled Pamphlet. Fascinating, fun-filled book tells how to write and decipher coded messages. Easy-to-follow directions let even young beginners become experts in backward ciphers, false word division, null ciphers and more. Workbook includes ample space for decoding 68 secret messages. Solutions at end of book. Quarto..... 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

University of Chicago Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Edward Golub, distinguished researcher and former professor of immunology, shows that major advances in medicine are caused by changes in the way scientists describe disease. Bleeding, sweating, and other treatments we consider barbaric were standard treatments for centuries because they conformed to..... More