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
University of Georgia Press, September 1990. Paper Back. Based on the photographs and writings of Francis Harper, a naturalist who visited the Okefinokee Swamp repeatedly between 1912 and 1951, Okefinokee Album recalls life in the "land of trembling earth" before the outside world encroached in the 1940s. Filled with profiles..... More
Dover Publications, 1962. Cloth. Folio. Two volume set. In dustjackets with mild wear. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed in black rectangles with gold borderlines along spines of both volumes. Moderate wear board edges, espcially along bottom edge. Text block top edges tinted a fading green with dust..... 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
Princeton University Press, August 2022. Hardcover. From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humans Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have..... 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
Dover Publications, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of..... 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
Storey Publishing, LLC, February 2023. Paper Back. Best-selling gardening author Barbara Pleasant makes organic vegetable gardening easy, fun, and rewarding with detailed planting and care designs for 24 beginner-friendly gardens to fit any site, whether it's a tiny side yard, a border, a trellis alongside the house, or a front..... 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
Gibbs Smith Publishers, April 2011. Hardcover. Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his..... 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
The MIT Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. The news about wildlife is dire--more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there..... 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
Barnes & Noble Books, January 2004. Cloth. More
Island Press, September 1997. Trade Paperback. " Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about..... More
Roost Books, February 2023. Hardcover. Reclaim your cycle and support your health with this detailed guide featuring 100+ recipes and practices from RN, and author of How to Grow a Baby, Amy Hammer. There is no one-size-fits-all guide to your cycle. But registered nurse Amy Hammer arms you with a...... More
Pantheon, May 2011. Hardcover. If the conscious mind--the part you consider to be you--is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can..... More
