Einstein's Universe: The Layperson's Guide
Penguin Group, May 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. bottom front cover missing, about 3/4-inch long at the longest part. More
Penguin Group, May 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. bottom front cover missing, about 3/4-inch long at the longest part. More
Doubleday, March 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast--the gorilla--only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution In 1856..... 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
Sirius, May 2017. Hardcover. Neuroscience is the science of the brain and the nervous system. It relates to sensory matters as well as motor. There are some fairly obvious examples, such as Phineas Gage and Spallanzani's frog legs, studies of madness and genius, early physical treatments for psychiatric disorders, the..... More
Basic Books, May 1988. First Edition. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} In only slightly shelf worn jacket. Brick red cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Complete number string. [229 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
Aegean Park Press, 1977. Paper Back. Quarto; {8 & 1/2' x 11'}; heavily sunned spine. Dust stained textblock top edge. Cover is blue cardstock with marginal sunning and a few stray ink marks. Textblock is curled from improper storage. 193 pages. More
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2008. Hardcover. A bestselling author and award winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today Most people agree that there are complicated issues at play in the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1970. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Clean, solid, no underlinings. 646 pages. More
W. W. Norton & Co, January 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 3/4'}. Sound without markings. No underlining. No sidenotes. 554 page. More
Vintage Books USA, June 1989. Trade Paperback. Challenging the fundamental assumptions of modern science, this ground-breaking radical hypothesis suggests that nature itself has memory. Sheldrake's hypothesis has been featured in Science, Nature, New Scientist, USA TODAY, and Newsweek. Drawings and photos throughout. 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
Micky Hades International, January 1976. Spiral Binding. {9' x 11'} Light green cardstock cover with black lettering. Black plastic spiral. [42 pages]. 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
Cambridge University Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. 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
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
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
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
Henry Holt & Company, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time--war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race--in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of..... More