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Price: $16.00
Publisher: London, Aurum Press Ltd.: 1995
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 1015
ISBN: 1854103032
Condition: Fine
8vo. ix. 340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket, clean and unmarked. The inside story of the remarkable discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, carbon-60. Written to delight and inform the layperson and scientist alike. Chapters: Introduction, Prologue-The Dome of Discovery, 1. Making Molecules, 2. September 1985, 3. The Search for the Yellow Vial, 4. On Symmetry and the Sexagesimal, 5. The Fuller View, 6. The Chemical Senses, 7. The Chemist-stylites, 8. September 1990, 9. The Peak Perfection, 10. "My Lords, What Does It Do?", 11. The Molecular Architects, Epilogue: Spot the Ball, Not... View more info
By: Barker, Clive
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 1996
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 362
ISBN: 006017949X
Condition: Fine
8vo.447 pgs. Fine Hardbound in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with no discernable defects. A story about a wildlife photographer, Will Rabjohns, who has made his reputation photographing endangered species, and a fateful trip to the Arctic where a mystical encounter with a bear leaves him all but dead. A journey of self-discovery leads him back to AIDS-plagued San Francisco, New York, and the Scottish moors, where he penetrates the ultimate mystery, "The "Domus Mundi" and discovers the secret that links his destiny to that of all the innumerable creatures on the planet. ISBN 0060... View more info
By: Bawden, F.C.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Ronald Press Co.: 1964
Edition: 4th Edition
Seller ID: 951
Condition: Very Good
8vo. vii. 361 pgs.Very Good condition blue cloth hardbound, no jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked with exception of owner name on front pastedown, light foxing to fore edge and several tiny check marks in table of contents. Sections include: symptomology - changes in appearance, physiological changes and host-plant metabolic changes; methods of transmission; assay methods; composition of virus particles; morphology of viruses;; inactivation; multiplication; movement; genetic variability; classification; control.#951. View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: 3000 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands, A. A. Balkema: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1221
ISBN: 9061916445
Condition: Near Fine.
Sm. 4to. x.268 pgs. Near Fine hardcover, clean and unmarked. Proceedings of this symposium are orgainized in the following sections: Flow structures as related to suspended sediment transport, particle-fluid dynamics; Concentration distribution and transport of suspended load under steady flow conditions; Reservoir sedimentation, settling basins; Resuspension, suspended and bed-load interaction; Suspended sediment transport under nonsteady flow conditions; special topics. ISBN 9061916445. #1221. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co., Boston. 1963. First Edition.: 1963
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 376
Condition: Very Good
8vo. 245 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good jacket. Maroon cloth, illustrated frontis portrait. Dust jacket has several small closed tears and chips, with protective cover. Illus. with black and white plates. Biography of Sir Francis Bacon in five parts: Prologue, Lord Bacon's Reputation; An Elizabethan Eden 1561-1579; The Struggle to rise 1579-1613; Bacon Ascending 1613-1620; impeachment 1621; A Noble Five Years 1621-1626. #376. View more info
By: Braithwaite, Richard Bevan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York and London, Cambridge University Press: 1957
Edition: Second American Printing
Seller ID: 1527
Condition: Very Good
xii. 376 pgs. Very Good condition navy cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean, sound, unmarked with minimal shelwear. Jacket price intact, light edgewear, sunning to paper at spine. Based upon the Tarner lectures given by the author in 1946, its primary purpose is to explain, by way of detailed examples, the logical features common to all the sciences. Contents: Introductory, Scientific deductive systems and their representations, The status of the theoretical terms of a science, Models for scientific theories; their use and misuse, Statistical hypotheses, probability statements an... View more info
By: Brookes, Martin
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., Time-Life Education, Incorporated: 1998
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 1342
ISBN: 073700035X
Condition: Fine
8vo. 192 pgs. Fine softcover, clean and unmarked, in stiff wraps with matching illustrated paper cover. Kraft-paper colored pages with black print, with illustrations and drawings scattered informally alongside each topic. Content is presented clearly and imaginatively, useful and entertaining for novice, student and scientist alike. "From Mendel and the garden peas to the world-embracing Human Genome Project, discover what you need to know about what genes are and what they do. This book moves from the earliest experiments to the discoveries of Watson and Crick to modern efforts to iden... View more info
By: Campbell, Killis
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Cambridge Massachusets, Harvard University Press: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2541
Condition: Good
238pgs. Good condition brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, usual ex-library markings in the usual places, former owner name on copyright page and preface, otherwise clean throughout, binding tight. Cornerstone biography and literary commentary on Edgar Allan Poe, his personal life, personality, eclectic education and background and his sometimes self-revelatory body of work. Sections: The Mind of Poe, Contemporary Opinion of Poe, The Poe-Griswold Controversy, The Backgrounds of Poe, Self-Revelation in Poe's Poems and Tales, The Origins of Poe and The Poe Canon. #2541... View more info
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By: Collins, Hunt (Ed McBain, Evan Hunter]
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Pyramid Books: 1956
Seller ID: 1879
Condition: Very Good
190 pgs. Very Good condition vintage paperback. Slight rubbing to paper at spine edges and a shallow partial crease to front cover vertically along woman pictured, else externally pristine, square and tight. Text block edges are red. Internally clean and unmarked, paper uniformly age-toned. First four pages have a small 1/2 inch closed edge tear to right margin. Cover art by Bob Lavin. From the back cover: "The Vikes were in the saddle riding high-peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only ... View more info
By: Coulter, John M. And Coulter, Merle C.
Price: $36.00
Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Co.: 1924
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 2381
Condition: Very Good+
105 pgs. Verg Good+ cloth hardcover in original dust jacket. Book is clean and umarked, binding sound, very slight rubbing to edges and corners. Jacket has small chips at spine edges and corners and paper is worn through in places along the flap edges. Flap information lists other titles in the Little Books on Religion series. Apparently then as now, "No subject of science seems to be more misunderstood by those who are not biologists than the doctrine of evolution...When one has been completely informed concerning evolution, he realizes that it does not contradict the Bible in any serious... View more info
Price: $26.00
Publisher: New York, The Columbia University Press: 1911
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 1916
Condition: Very Good
ix.311pgs. Very Good red cloth hardcover, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, rubbing to cloth ar corners and spine edges, binding sound. Bookplate of previous owner Frederick Fox on front endpaper. From the eight Hewitt Lectures of Columbia University, delivered in February and March of 1907. Contents: I. Evolution. The Living Organism and Its Natural History. II. The Structure and Development of Animals As Evidence of Evolution. III. The Evidence of Fossil Remains. IV. Evolution as a Natural Process. V. The Physical Evolution of the Human Species and of Hum... View more info
By: Cuny, Hilaire
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 1062
Condition: Very Good+
8vo. vi. 192 pgs. Very Good+ cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Cloth has slight rubbing to corners. Dust jacket exhibits overall light shelf wear, with light rubbing to paper at edges and corners. Otherwise, clean, sound and unmarked. The first sections of the book cover his nature, background and early career, followed by his more advanced contributions, the potentialites of his research and his last years. The remainder of the text is devoted to selected writings, notes, research topics, lectures and reflections, followed by a chronological outline of his life, a glossary, bibliography an... View more info
By: Curtis, Otis F. And Clark, Daniel G.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co.: 1950
Seller ID: 918
Condition: Good to Very Good
8vo. xi. 752 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover with slight shelf wear to cloth. Owner name inked out on front endpaper, occasional neat underlinings, not obtrusive to text. Topics covered include photosynthesis, diffusion and osmosis, surface phenomena, colloids, absorption, imbibition, transpiration, water distribution, frost resistance, temperature injury, permeability, accumulation and antagonism, minerals, enzymes, digestion, respiration, fermentation, dormancy, appendices and indices. #918. View more info
By: Dejerine, J. And Gauckler, E.
Price: $26.00
Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott Co.: 1913
Edition: Second English Edition
Seller ID: 2514
Condition: Very Good
xii. 395 pgs. Very Good condition red cloth hardcover. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, faint sun-faded shadow on front board. Authorized English translation by Smith Ely Jelliffee. This is an original 1913 printing of the second English edition, not a modern reprint. Binding sound, small top edge tear on pg xii, text clean and unmarked. Owner name (R.L. Williston, Northampton, Mass.) stamped on front and rear endpapers. [R.L. Williston was proprietor and sole manufacturer of Payson's Indelible Ink in the early 20th century]. Chapters: Part I. Ana... View more info
By: Feuer, Lewis S.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc.: 1974
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 631
ISBN: 0465018718
Condition: Very Good
8vo. ix. 374 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Brown cloth, blue lettering to spine and matching color to top of text block. Dust jacket has light rubbing to corners of spine, in protective cover. Black and white photographs. Contents include: The Social Roots of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Social, Generational, and Philosopical Sources of Quantum Theory, Generational Movements and 'Scientific Revolutions', Conflict of Scientific Schools, Index. "In this absorbing intellectual history we come to know Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, and many others not as ... View more info
By: Gilbert, Suzie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2009
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 2442
Condition: Fine
340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, As New condition, clean and unmarked first printing of first dition. Illustrated with finely detailed drawings by Laura Westlake. By the author of Hawk Hill. If you enjoy reading about wildlife rehabilitation and the dedicated rehabbers who make it possible, this well written personable and poignant chronicle will become a favorite. Jacket blurb: "Gilbert chronicles the years of her chaotic household-cum-bird-hospital with delightful wit...Often funny, sometimes painful, Gilbert's encounters with these beautiful creatures reveal profound truths not... View more info
By: Goldblatt, Peter
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Oregon, Timber Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2552
ISBN: 0881922331
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. vi.139 pgs. Near Fine hardbound in Fine dust jacket. Very faint shelf rubbing to bottom edges, else fine. Illustrated throughout with water colors by Fay Anderson and line drawings by Margo Branch. Concise yet systematic study of these South African perennial irises. Contents include: preface, introduction, history, morphology, characteristics, phylogeny and evolution, geology, ecology and speciation, cultivation, Nivenia (species), Klattia (species), Wistenia (species), excluded species (Proteaceae), glossary, bibliography and index of scientific names. Author was recently awarded the ... View more info
Price: $23.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1929
Edition: No Additional or Previous Printings
Seller ID: 2558
Condition: Good to Very Good
xxii.405pgs. Good to Very Good condition black cloth hardcover. Corners rubbed, rear hinge loose but holding well, general wear to covers. Light foxing to enpapers, frontis and title page. Generously illustrated throughout with black and white drawings, woodcuts, portaits. Parts and Chapters: The Conquest of Death at Birth: Childbirth and Civilization, Sairey Gamps and the Midmen, The Compassion of Peter Chamberlen, "A Gentleman with Clean Hands May Carry the Disease"; The Story of Anaesthesia: "In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children"; The Progress of Surgery: Making an Anat... View more info
By: Hicks, Aaron J
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Arizona, U.S.A., The Orchid Seedbank Project: 2007
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Seller ID: 2262
ISBN: 0967304911
Condition: Fine
22 pgs. Fine condition spiral bound softcover, as new from publisher. First edition, second printing 2007. Illustrated. Contents: Growing Orchids from Seed, Requirements, The Media, Gelling Agents, Autoclave or Pressure Cooker, Culture Vessels, Sterile Workspace, Other Tools and Chemicals, The Seeds, Preparing the Flasks, Prepare the Media, Make Up Disinfection Solution, Sterilizing the Workspace, Disinfection of Seeds, After Flasking, Replate, Growth, Dealing With Contamination, Differences in Media, Storing Seeds, Green Capsule Technique, De-Flasking and Seedling Care, Glossary/Conversions,... View more info
By: Hicks, Aaron J. and Katy Lynn, Editor
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Chandler, AZ, The Orchid Seedbank Project: 2014
Edition: First Edition, Third Printing
Seller ID: 2408
ISBN: 096730492X
Condition: New
211pgs. Fine condition softcover, as new from publisher. First Edition Third Printing. August 2014. An authoritative and comprehensive compendium of over 130 media formulations and recipes used for the propagation of orchid seeds in vitro, this treatise presents not just the hows, but the very readable wherefores and whys of the materials and techniques used. Contents: History; Chemistry: The Elements, Isotopes, Oxidation States, The Chemistry of Ions, Formula Weight; The Metric System; Stock Solutions, Overlays; Glassware: Glass, Pipettes, Volumetric Flasks, Erlenmeyer Flasks, Graduated Cylin... View more info
