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
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600–1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s–1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead..... More
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Second Edition. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. More
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1966. A.j. Krailsheimer (tr.). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes..... 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
Ware: Castlemead Publications, 1987. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a Foreword by Gordon Beningfield This is the first comprehensive guide to the history, ecology, status and conservation of the County's butterflies. Sixty-two species have been noted since the first observations of the early nineteenth century. More
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Hose was a noted member of the Brookes' civil service in Sarawak from the end of the 19th to the early 20th century. As with many of his type, he also found time to explore and write about the country and its..... More
London: Natural History Musuem, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. A comprehensive, illustrated identification guide for beginners and serious collectors alike, featuring special colour photography of specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London. Rocks are minerals are naturally occurring compounds formed by intense geological processes in the Earth's crust such as..... More
London: Wide-Eyed Editions/ Quarto, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Strap in for a rip-roaring ride through the history of the universe, starting with the Big Bang, and bringing us right up to present day. What was the universe like when it was a few seconds old? How had it changed by..... 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
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Brian Hargreaves (illustrations). Third Printing. Hardcover. Covers over 500 British and European caterpillars. More
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2015. Sheila Keenan. Second Edition. Softcover. Celebrated author-illustrator and master explainer David Macaulay brings his unique voice and style to high-interest nonfiction books for newly independent readers. How can you see that your shirt is on inside out? How do you see the soccer..... 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
Sussex: Pica Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Heavy item, please note additional handling charge. Used by millions of birders from novices to the most expert, the 'Sibley Guide' became the standard by which natural history guides are measured. It was published in Britain as The North American Bird Guide by..... 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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. A.M Hughes (color plates). Hardcover. A compendium of 660 species of animals from South-East Asia including many which cannot be found elsewhere: the gymnures and treeshrews, 'living fossils' resembling extinct mammals of sixty million years ago; gliding and flying forms, notably bats; primates ranging from..... More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1975. Reprint of 1962 original edition. Hardcover. More
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Jean Pruchnik (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Stones of Silence is a rare glimpse of a vanishing environment, a story told in the words of a poet yet seen through the eyes of a scientist. George B. Schaller traveled the Himalayas between 1969..... More
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