Harper, January 2023. Hardcover. For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of..... More
The American Dietetic Association, 1967. First Thus. Oversized Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy green cloth boards w/ gilt design/letting at front and spine, boards mildly scuffed from handling; Minor pencil markings present in text, text laregely un-marked; An excellent copy, fit for any collector's library. 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
Penguin Press, February 2023. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and..... More
Random House, June 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "thrilling" (The New York Times), "dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong..... 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
Basic Books, October 1994. Trade Paperback. The world's foremost fossil hunter tells the story of the first humans and explains how and why modern humans developed social organization. More
Duke University Press Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of..... More
Melville House, February 2023. Hardcover. A groundbreaking, witty, and eloquent exploration of slime that will leave you appreciating the nebulous and neglected sticky stuff that covers our world, inside and out. Slime. The very word seems to ooze oily menace, conjuring up a variety of unpleasant associations: mucous, toxins, reptiles..... More
Riverhead Books, February 2023. Paper Back. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in..... More
Harper Paperbacks, September 2018. Paper Back. Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Our understanding of the human body has changed dramatically since the time of Hippocrates and, later, Galen, who dominated medical thinking for more than a millennium. Yet elements of myth and folklore persist to the present day -- every time someone says..... More
Springer, March 1987. Hardcover. This book is intended as an undergraduate senior level or beginning graduate level text for mathematical logic. There are virtually no prere quisites, although a familiarity with notions encountered in a beginning course in abstract algebra such as groups, rings, and fields will be useful in..... More
Princeton University Press, July 1981. Paper Back. The outcome of ten years' work, this book is a carefully planned study of brain dominance, aphasia, and other speech disturbances, and includes a discussion of the cerebral mechanisms of speech and the learning and teaching of language. Originally published in 1959. The..... More
The MIT Press, May 1981. First Thus. Hardcover. What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)? The author of "Seeing and Knowing" presents in his new book a beautifully and persuasively written interdisciplinary approach to traditional problems--a clearsighted interpretation of information theory.Psychologists, biologists, computer scientists, and those seeking..... More
Riverhead Books, February 2023. Hardcover. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolutionizing the way medical research is conducted. For more than half a century, medical advances have been driven by investigators launching experiments inside labs. Science is often conducted in isolation and..... 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
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Doubleday Anchor Book, 1959. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Two volumes, as set. Revised Second Edition. Edgewear. Some soiling and damp stains. Dust stains & marginal darkening to cover. [296 pages; 366 pages]. More
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
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
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
