The Conjurer's calculator: Magic with a pocket computer
Micky Hades International, January 1976. Spiral Binding. {9' x 11'} Light green cardstock cover with black lettering. Black plastic spiral. [42 pages]. More
Science
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)
Vintage, January 2009. Trade Paperback. The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the "fish with hands," tells a "compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human" (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands..... More
An Annotated Bibliography of Cryptography
Garland Publishing, Inc., February 1976. First Edition. Cloth. Without dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering upon spine. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 3/4'}; Octavo. Foxing/tanning to textblock edges & end pages. Frontispiece and 15 illustrated plates. Tight binding. Internally without markings. No underlining. No notes. Etc. Folded promotion..... More
The Great Doctors; A Biographical History of Medicine from the Ancient World to the Twentieth Century -- A140
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
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
Penguin Press HC, The, September 2012. Hardcover. UPDATED FOR 2020 WITH A NEW PREFACE BY NATE SILVER "One of the more momentous books of the decade." --The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth..... More
Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Viking Books, July 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. A witty and informed survey, "Adam's Navel" is a unique brew of science, history, and storytelling that illuminates our perception, exploitation, and celebration of the human body. Moving from head to toe in twelve chapters, Michael Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory..... More
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation: New Edition
Yale University Press, January 1996. Oversized Hardcover. The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440--at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas--is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in about 1000 by Leif..... More
Size: How It Explains the World
William Morrow, May 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness "No one writes about..... More
Size: How It Explains the World
William Morrow, May 2023. Hardcover. From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness "No one writes about..... More
The Business of Alchemy
Princeton University Press, May 1997. Paper Back. In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to illuminate the cultural history of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how an overriding concern with religious salvation..... More
The Two Cultures and a Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Cambridge University Press, May 1969. Trade Paperback. More
Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth
NYU Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Ever since Gutenberg invented movable type we have lived in a culture dominated by print. Now we are in the midst of a communications revolution as profound as that which saw the printed book replace oral and manuscript texts. Hypertext- a way of connecting..... More
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2000. Trade Paperback. -- Also appeared on the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Independent, Wordstock, NCIBA, and Booksense bestseller lists -- Winner of the Christopher Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award -- Named a...... More
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1996. Trade Paperback. During the great ages of exploration "the longitude problem" was the greatest of scientific challenges. Lacking the ability to determine their longitude, sailors were literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those traveling..... More
Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation (Second Edition)
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
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
FONTANA PRESS, January 1985. Trade Paperback. More
In the Country of Hearts
Delta, January 1992. First Trade. Trade Paperback. From the little blue baby with a heart murmur to those desperate patients who undergo heart transplants, In the Country of Hearts brings the world of medicine down to its all-too-human level and shows the two hearts that beat in all of us--the..... More
Requiem for Relativity: The Collapse of Special Relativity
Pal.-Relativitycollapse, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Three Rivers Press, March 2008. Trade Paperback. Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in..... More
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
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
Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
Routledge, August 2014. First Trade. Trade Paperback. In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society. While readily acknowledging the astounding progress neuroscience has made in helping us understand how the brain..... More
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
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
My Inventions and Other Writings
Penguin Classics, December 2011. Trade Paperback. Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authorative volume of My Inventions includes three additional articles by Tesla which..... More
Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture
MIT Press, May 2005. Hardcover. How global biotechnology is redefining life itself. In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks..... More
Mathematics for the general reader
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with darkened spine. 3 rusted staples. Previous reader's name written in ink on verso. Soiled/torn half title page. [197 pages plus three list of Anchor titles.]. More
