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Crown, March 1989. Paper Back. 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 2000. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of Genius and Chaos, a bracing new work about the accelerating pace of change in today's world. Most of us suffer some degree of "hurry sickness." a malady that has launched us into the "epoch of the nanosecond,"..... 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
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
Aegean Park Press, April 1996. Paper Back. Quarto; {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'}; sunned spine. Foxing especially to first inside page and last page. Also foxing/dust stains to textblock edges. No markings, no underlining, no notes, etc. 155 pages. More
Vintage, February 2000. Trade Paperback. "[Greene] develops one fresh new insight after another...In the great tradition of physicists writing for the masses, The Elegant Universe sets a standard that will be hard to beat." --George Johnson, "The New York Times Book Review" In a rare blend of scientific insight and..... More
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, December 2002. Hardcover. Ageless Quest is a personal, sometimes controversial, account of the pursuit of a genetic 'cure' for aging by an expert in the field. The author is the Novartis Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aging has always been regarded..... More
Aegean Park Press, September 1978. Hardcover. Quarto; {8 & 1/2' x 11'}; Heavy cardstock covered by blue paper with black lettering. End pages tanned/foxing. No markings. No underlining. No notes. 87 pages. Originally published (Stockholm, 1931). This is the first complete English language translation of the original Swedish text. More
North Atlantic Books, March 2010. Paper Back. Tibetan medicine is a rarified field with few publications in English; it is also one of the most comprehensive of alternative therapies, addressing body, mind, and spirit. Written for intermediate-level practitioners, Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine brings this important healing tradition to Western..... More
Dover, June 2010. Oversize Softcover. America's first successful attempt at unmanned lunar exploration, Project Ranger culminated in close-up television images of the moon's surface. Sponsored by NASA and executed by the Jet Propulsion Lab, the project ran from 1959 to 1965 and produced management techniques, flight operating procedures, and technology..... 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
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 American Cryptogram Association, 1959. Reprint. Stapled Pamphlet. 2nd printing. {6' x 9'} Stapled pamphlet with two staples. Sun lightened fold. Dust stained margins. [43 pages]. More
Harvard University Press, October 1999. Hardcover. Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so within sight of the..... More
Self Published, 1984. First Edition. Stapled Pamphlet. Quarto.. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Light blue cardstock wrapper that is heavily foxed. Sunned at margins with horizontal bar of tanning across rear wrapper. 100 pages. More
Dover Publications, June 2005. Reprint. Paper Back. This history of physics focuses on the question, How do bodies act on one another across space? The variety of answers illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics, as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Forces and Fields..... 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
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The..... More
New American Library (NAL), September 1960. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Biologist, eugenicist Julian Huxley, the brother of Aldoux, originally published this book under title New Bottles for New Wine. Heavy foxing and damp stain spotting throughout. Rose red tinted textblock edges. [287 pagers]. More
Bantam Books, August 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with shelf wear. [172 pages plus three pages of advertisements]. 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
Vintage Books, January 1976. Paper Back. Darkening to margins of textblock. 349 pages. 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
Harper Perennial, January 2018. Paper Back. The latest volume in the bestselling series from Edge.org--dubbed "the world's smartest website" by The Guardian--brings together 206 of the world's most innovative thinkers to discuss the scientific concepts that everyone should know. As science informs public policy, decision making, and so many aspects..... More