Signet, June 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Liveright, August 2020. Hardcover. "Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson takes us on a myrmecological tour to..... More

Merlin Books, January 1988. First Thus. Paper Back. Uncommon title. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/4'} First UK paperback edition. Sun lightened spine. Errata slip taped to half title page -- same page with previous reader's name hand written in ink. Else, without markings. [491 pp.]. More

Medical Library Association / Waverly Press, January 1965. Cloth. Octavo. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. [300 pp.]. 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

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

W. W. Norton, January 1945. First Thus. Cloth. Octavo. Brick red with sunned spine. Previous readers' inscription front end pages. Dustjacket is missing. A piece of dustjacket (rear flap and panel) taped to rear free end page. According to jacket fragment this is 'revised and enlarged edition'. However, acccording to..... More

University of California Press, April 1990. Paper Back. The first U.S. nominee for the Nobel Prize, Jacques Loeb was trained in experimental physiology in Germany, joined the biology faculty of the new University of Chicago in 1892, later taught at the University of California at Berkeley and then moved to..... More

The MIT Press, January 1987. Paper Back. This book of readings offers compelling evidence that even in this age of advanced medical technology and large-scale bureaucracy, the essence of diagnosis, therapy, and management of illness continues to reside in the doctor-patient relationship. It brings together 17 articles published from 1927..... More

Oxford University Press, June 1988. Paper Back. Few subjects have generated so many newspaper headlines and such heated controversy as the treatment, or non-treatment, of handicapped newborns. In 1982, the case of Baby Doe, a child born with Down's syndrome, stirred up a national debate in the United States, while..... More

University of Chicago Press, May 1992. Hardcover. Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the..... More

University Alabama Press, August 2007. Hardcover. A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s. While the economy and culture of the post--World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development..... More

Quinnipiac University Press, September 2013. Hardcover. Medicine's Michelangelo is a remarkable and first major biography of Frank H. Netter, MD, written by his daughter, Francine Mary Netter. She captures the character of the man and tells his life story using not only her remembrances but also Frank Netter's own autobiographical..... More