Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (New Scientist)
Profile Books, 2006. More
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Edible Plants and Animals
Facts on File, 1993. Hardcover. This book is presented in an encyclopedia format with limited information on each edible plant and animal included rather than as a useful guide for actually using them. Since it encompasses the planet, finding edible species specific to one region would require careful reading and... More
They Dared to Ask Questions (Seekers and Finders, Book One)
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
The Checklist Manifesto
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
Are You Smarter Than A Chimpanzee: Test Yourself Against the Amazing Minds of Animals
London: Profile Books, 2018. First Paperback Edition. Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat. Now, through dozens of interactive... More
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China
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
A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine series)
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. 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 has retold... More
Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. More
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
London: Icon Books, 2011. Paperback. More
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
New York: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. The international bestseller that inspired a major Nova special and sparked a new understanding of the universe, now with a new preface and epilogue. Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that... More
Seeds, Spades, Hearths and Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs
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
Cosmos
New York: Ballantine Books, 2013. Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean... More
Ting Wen-chiang: Science and China's New Culture
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Vol. 42 in Harvard East Asian Studies series A pioneer Western-trained scientist and leader of the “new culture” movement of the early 1900s, Ting Wen-chiang has been called “the Chinese Huxley.” He appears as a versatile representative of the..... More
Probing the Sky with Radio Waves: From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. More
Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy (cover photo). First U.S. Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos... More
Introducing Lacan
Totem Books, 1998. Paperback. More
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
New York: Penguin Books, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution... More
The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion book to the PBS television series. More
Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1997. First Edition (stated), Second Printing. Hardcover. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. Now, in everyday language, Stephen Hawking's Universe reveals step-by-step how we can all share his understanding of the cosmos, and our own place within... More
Facts From Space! From Super-Secret Spacecraft to Volcanoes in Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Facts To Blow Your Mind!
Avon, Mass: Adams Media, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. From the sun's super-hot core to the many moons of Neptune, we're traveling to the far reaches of our solar system and beyond! Astronomer Dean Regas presents Facts from Space!--an exciting education on everything outside our atmosphere. Inside, you'll discover space facts... More
A Field Guide to Stars and Planets
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
Legacy of Hiroshima
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Reprint of 1962 original edition. Hardcover. More
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Dühring)
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More
A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (The Peterson Field Guide Series)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1960. Third Edition. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Describes hundreds of minerals and lists their geographic distribution, physical properties, chemical composition, and crystalline structure. More
