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
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965. First New Berkley Medallion Edition (12th printing). Paperback. Berkley Medallion book # F1016. An award winning collection of twelve true short stories written by Berton Roueché and published in 1953. Each story, including the titular story Eleven Blue Men, was originally published in..... More
London: Flamingo, 1997. Helen Jones (cover illustration). First Flamingo Printing. Paperback. More
London: Pan Books, 1964. First Pan Books Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First U.K. Paperback Edition. Softcover. Everywoman is the essential manual to women's health. This book will provide you with the knowledge to ask questions and make empowered decisions about your own wellbeing. A leading pioneer in gynaecology, Derek Llewellyn-Jones' balanced and clear-cut advice provides..... More
London: William Collins, 1944. First Edition (presumed). 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
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1992. Trade Paperback Edition. “Comprehensive, encyclopedic, and lucid, this book is a must for all practitioners of the healing arts who want to broaden their understanding. Readers interested in the role of herbs and foods in healing will also find much to learn here, as I...... More
Beverly: University of California Press, 1972. New Edition. First Paperback Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. Cal 238. Chapters 1-34 translated from the Chinese with an introductory study. More
New York: Scribner Classics, 1998. First Scribner Edition, Second Edition. Hardcover. The classic personal account of Watson and Crick’s groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA. By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize..... More
Abacus, 2001. More
New York: Puffin Books, 1994. Softcover. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us? In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly..... More
Churchill Livingstone, 1996. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. With a foreword by Joseph R. Levenson. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. New Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Dallas, Texas: Benbella Books, 2006. Eighteenth Printing. Softcover. The science is clear. The results are unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. In the past fifty years scientists have begun to discover how the human brain functions. In this book Wilder Penfield, whose work has been at the forefront of such research, describes the current state of knowledge about the brain and..... More
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