Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (New Scientist)
Profile Books, 2006. More
Science
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A scientific detective story
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
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
Leonardo's Art Workshop: Invent, Create, and Make STEAM Projects Like a Genius
Massachusetts, USA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Publishing, 2019. Softcover. Leonardo’s Art Workshop leads children on an interactive adventure through key art concepts by following the multidisciplinary approach of the Renaissance period polymath Leonardo da Vinci: experimenting, creating projects, and exploring how art intersects with science and nature. Photos of Leonardo’s own notebooks..... More
A History of Western Science
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Presented in an informal, narrative style, this text looks at science, from the ancient world, to medieval science, the scientific revolution, through to 20th century physics. This edition offers more coverage of 20th century history, wars, and technology; more on..... 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
Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine
London: Wellcome Collection, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, ‘Ayurvedic Man’ presents a visual history of some of the earliest medical systems and healing practices in the world – tracing Ayurveda and Indian medicine as they travelled from East to West, gaining, losing..... 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
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
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
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
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
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
The Carbon Crunch (Revised and Updated)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Revised Edition. Paperback. In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy. More
The How and Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy
New York: Wonder Books, 1961. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). 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
A Dictionary of Dream Symbols
London: Bounty Books, 2001. Reprint. Paperback. With over 400 entries. More
