Ecw Press, November 2009. Trade Paperback. Edison's Concrete Piano highlights the careers of famous inventors -- revealing the lesser-known and most fascinating facts about their careers, their wackier hobbies, and especially their big flops and great successes. Take Thomas Edison for example, who revolutionized our world with the light bulb..... More
Mariner Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Studies the work and unique methods of three women scientists who contributed to understanding chimpanzees, mountain gorillas, and orangutans. Here is the story of three gifted women trained by the famed Louis Leakey. This book, 'a sensitive and revealing contribution to the legend of..... More
Tarcher, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Dover Publications, June 1977. Trade Paperback. For the philosopher, scientist, archaeologist, art historian, biologist, poet and artist, as well as the general reader who wants to understand more about the fascinating properties of numbers and geometry, and their relationship to art and life, this is a thought-provoking book. More
HarperCollins Publishers, March 2006. Trade Paperback. The Nature of Genius Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the..... More
Mountaineers Books, May 1996. Trade Paperback. More
Easton Press, 1991. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decorative cover design. Moire end pages. Two different pieces of Easton empherma laid in. One is unused Easton Press Ex-libris. The other a 4' x 6' double side cardstock 'note about Bully for Brontosaurus and the..... More
Abbeville Press, November 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Botanica Magnifica features two hundred and fifty stunning photographs by Hasselblad Laureate Award winner Jonathan M. Singer, representing--in the words of an ARTnews critic--rare or exotic plants and flowers in large scale and exquisite detail, emerging from the shadows in a manner evocative..... 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
Aegean Park Press, June 1979. First Edition. Soft Cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x11'} Moderate tanning of spine. Interiors clean, unmarked. (186 pp.). More
Aegean Park Press, 1981. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Tan cardstock cover. Clean, sound, without interior markings. (140 pp) Undated. Probably a reprint, and I think originally published in 1979. 1981 is just a guess for reprint date. More
Clayton C Pierce, 1998. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black wrap around cardstock (shiny & textured on outside and plain black on verso. (Report cover / perfect bound) xxii pages of introductory material, supplementory articles & index on dull yellow stock at..... More
Clayton C Pierce, April 1997. Soft Cover. Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Clear plastic front cover with black binder and back cover of flexible cardstock with shiny textured outside and verso is plain black cardstock surface. The numeration of this version of Hobby Cryptography is even stranger than that..... More
F.D. Lynch, January 1963. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {6' x 9'}; Wrapper is grey cardstock with black lettering front panel. Tanning to spine margins. Light discoloring from exposure to light over the years. Text is without markings or underlining. The last page (a blank page) has some notes across the top..... More
Courville Association / Self-published, 1986. First Edition. Soft Cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Tan textured cardstock wrapper with darkened spine. Internal pages heavily foxed on endstuff margins and edges. 91 pages. Scarce title. More
Back Bay Books, September 2001. Trade Paperback. By enquiring into the puzzle of sibling relations, Frank J. Sulloway pioneers a new view of how family affects individual development. He shows that birth-order is so fundamental to the family that it transcends gender, class and nationality. More
Central Recovery Press, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Failure to thrive is not a phrase in this doctor's vocabulary. At the age of four, Anne McTiernan is left by her mother at a boarding school. Overcome by sadness from the neglect she experiences there, Anne emotionally and physically starves. A doctor..... More
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, January 1980. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd edition. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket is duststain with soiling, darkening at margins. Edgeworn with several tears along the top. Damp staining. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth with red & black cloth with gold lettering on spine and..... More
Aegean Park Press, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. This is a rebind, remaking soft cover into hard cover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'}. Tan cloth covered boards with white lettering upon spine. Cardstock cover from softcover edition of Pattern Word List (Vol. #1) is glued to front panel. Boards..... 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
No publisher listed, 1954. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2') Darkened at spine. Tanned margins of cover. No markings within. No underlining. 30 pages. More
American Cryptogram Association, January 1967. Stapled Pamphlet. Octavo. {6' x 9'}; Sunned at margins. Unmarked interiors. No underling. No side notes. 46 pages. More
Aegean Park Press, June 1979. First Trade. Hardcover. -encOriginally 'this book... was prepared (written) in 1946 by the Historical Section of the (then) Army Security Agency'. First published for public consumption in 1979 in both paperback and paperback. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Blue slick paper covered boards with..... 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
Aegean Park Press, December 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. 'Originally published in 1956 as classified text by the U.S. Government'. Quarto; {8 & 1/4' x 10 & 3/4'}; Grey textured cardstock; Sunned spine and margins. Foxing to textblock edges. Errata slip laid in. 465 pages. More
