Making Of A Surgeon
Pocket, January 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Pocket, January 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. 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
Doubleday Anchor, 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Reprinted by arrangement with G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London. Mild shelf wear and slightly darkened spine. [266 pages plus four page list of Anchor titles then available.]. More
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in..... More
Pegasus Books, February 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin's formative years and his adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography/Memoir The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in..... More
One World, March 2022. Hardcover. The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind "Gripping . .... More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology..... More
Prickly Paradigm Press, April 2003. Paper Back. The Companion Species Manifesto is about the implosion of nature and culture in the joint lives of dogs and people, who are bonded in significant otherness. In all their historical complexity, Donna Haraway tells us, dogs matter. They are not just surrogates for..... More
Tarcher, April 2006. Trade Paperback. An amateur astronomer documents a year spent observing the night sky and building an observatory in his New England backyard, offering additional background information on the history of armchair astronomy and how it has assisted the scientific community. By the author of The Unspeakable. Reprint..... 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
Cambridge University Press, January 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. Biology was introduced with the nineteenth century. The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. First Touchstone paperback edition. 2nd printing. Sound, clean & unmarked interiors. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. [256 pp.]. More
Dover Pubns, June 1957. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Clear and penetrating presentation of the basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; functions of pancreatic juice in digestion;..... More
Pantheon, February 1982. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback with sun lightened spine. Conversely sun darkened margins to cover verso and textblock pages. [349 pp.]. More
Micky Hades International, January 1976. Spiral Binding. {9' x 11'} Light green cardstock cover with black lettering. Black plastic spiral. [42 pages]. More
Zone Books, July 1999. Hardcover. The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien..... More
Cambridge University Press, September 1986. Trade Paperback. This concise readable book explains, in language understandable to a wide audience, the author's somewhat controversial views about the possible origin of life. His major statement on the subject, 'Genetic Takeover' (published by the Press in 1982) attracted much publicity and acclaim. With..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, March 2006. Trade Paperback. Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology..... More
Knopf, August 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a...... More
Penguin Books, December 1990. First Thus. Paper Back. Every so often a writer finds a way of reinterpreting the cosmos, of guiding readers through new fields of knowledge to transcendent understanding. Hardison is just such a writer, and Disappearing Through the Skylight is just such a book--a provocative, groundbreaking work..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, March 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. The pioneering texts in quantitative history were written over two decades ago, but as a command of methodological context, computer experience, and statistical literacy have become increasingly important to the study of history, the need for an introductory text..... 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
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
Vintage, April 1995. Trade Paperback. By the bestselling author of Cutting for Stone, a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern..... More
Perseus Books Group, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. This ingenious book is the account of an epic astronomical journey, a tale told by an early-twenty-first-century human sailor among the stars. The account is discovered, as an alien "translator's note" reveals, sixty million years in earth's future--the product of one man's..... More