Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprint. Paperback. This book addresses the question of how life may have arisen on earth, in the spirit of an intriguing detective story. It relies on the methods of Sherlock Holmes, in particular his principle that one should use the most paradoxical features of a...... More
New York: Picador, 2007. Reprint. Paperback. A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how..... More
London: Blackie & Son Ltd, 1968. Hardcover. No publication date indicated in book but FFE bears prior owner's name and date of "Jan. 1968". Rare edition. More
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1994. Softcover. This guide provides information about each of the 230 specimens on display in the halls of the Lila Acheson Wallace wing at the American Museum of Natural History. More
Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1983. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Rare. More
Metropolitan Books, 2010. Hardcover. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. An intellectual adventure..... More
Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. Second Edition. Softcover. Acoustics and Noise Control provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of acoustics and noise control. Fully revised and updated throughout, the second edition assumes no previous knowledge of the subject and requires only a basic knowledge of..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman’s masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman..... More
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Second Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. More
London: Ivy Press, 2019. Nick Rowland, Andrea Ucini (illustrations). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quantum Theory: A Crash Course teaches you everything you need to know about this complex science, breaking it down into 52 digestible topics. Part of the Crash Course series, the book is divided into four..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1972. Second Edition, Third Printing. Paperback. Some of the author premises regarding domestication of animals and foodstuffs: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food; domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in..... More
London: Earthscan Publications Limited, 1994. First English Edition. Trade Paperback. Rare. An extraordinary collection of interviews, essays, and statements by Chinese scientists, journalists, and intellectuals opposed to the massive Three Gorges dam on China’s Yangtze River. Originally published in 1989 as the democracy movement was gathering momentum, Yangtze! Yangtze! is..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the..... More
Totem Books, 1998. Paperback. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion book to the PBS television series. More
New York: Simon and Schuster Paperback, 2019. Lauren Peters-Collaer (cover design). First Simon & Schuster paperback edition. Paperback. Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change..... More
UK: Penguin Books, 2019. First Penguin Books Edition. Fifth Printing. Paperback. Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019 Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson..... More
New York: Wonder Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Wil Tirion (sky maps and atlas charts). Second Edition. Softcover. 72 monthly sky maps; 52 detailed Atlas Charts; Maps of the moon's surface, over 230 photographs, and more. More
Seacaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc., 1989. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Reprint of 1962 original edition. Hardcover. More
San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2016. First English Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures. Join Kumiko..... More
New York: Wonder Books, 1960. John Hull. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). More
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More
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