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Oxford University Press USA. Very Good+. 1991. Trade Paperback. 0195071182 . Trade Paperback. A tightly bound, bright, unmarked copy with light cover scuffing and edgewear. "The book is aimed at students and professionals at many different levels: undergraduates studying psychopharmacology or neurobiology, medical students, graduate students in pharmacology and neuroscience, neuroscientists and residents and practitioners in neurology and psychiatry." ; B&W Illustrations; 8.10 X 5.30 X 0.80 inches; 454 pages .

Signet NY Sep 1969. Very Good. 1969. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Pages are tightly bound and unmarked (light age tanning to the edges). Moderate cover wear, the spine is uncreased. "Eternal life, brains without bodies, genetic warfare: all part of mankind's glorious future - or total destruciton." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 239 pages .

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ Pr. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Trade Paperback. 0691024162 . Trade Paperback. This book has a crease on the bottom cover and some edgewear, it is in great condition. Clean & bright interior with a solid binding. " This personal, anecdotal, and often humorous autobiography reads like a history of 20th-century physics, but with the added warmth of a very good novel. Peierls's personal contact with most of the giants of modern physics, including Bethe, Weisskopf, Bohr, Fermi, and Sommerfeld, provides a unique glimpse of events that have shaped much of our modern world. "; B&W Photographs; 0.75 x 9.25 x 6 Inches; 350 pages .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. Trade Paperback. 0393300455 . Trade paperback in very good condition, tightly bound, an unmarked interior with laminated covers. Light soiling to the cover edges with rubbing. "The scientific revolution of the 17th century dethroned the "common-sense" physics of Aristotle and established a powerful "grand design". The story of one of the greatest advances in human thought is told in this work, revised in this edition to take account of the findings of recent years." ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages .

Garden City , New York: Anchor Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1960. Mass Market. Mass Market Paperback with edgewear on covers. On the front cover is a mark where the price sticker was removed. This is an ex-library book from the "St. Josaphat Monastery" in Ottawa. Thought that was interesting. The library pocket is on the inside of the back cover. The back of the front cover is offset. "The Birth of a New Physics has been written for the general reader, for students in high schools or colleges (studying science, philosophy, or history) , for historians and philosophers, and for anyone who may wish to understand the dynamic, adventurous quality of science. The author's intention is to explore one aspect of that great Scientific Revolution that occurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to clarify certain fundamental aspects of the nature and development of modern science. "; B&W Illustrations; 200 pages .

Viking Canada. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0670885428 . Grey hardboards in Near Fine condition. Tight, bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped in Near Fine condition. "From China to Patagonia and the Alberta Badlands, award - winning science writer Wayne Grady traces the link between dinosaurs and birds, and considers the question: Is there life after extinction?". "From China to Patagonia and the Alberta Badlands, award - winning science writer Wayne Grady traces the link between dinosaurs and birds, and considers the question: Is there life after extinction?".; 9.10 X 6.30 X 1.20 inches; 304 pages .

Norton. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0393064646 . Black hard boards in very good+ condition. A bump and a tear to the top spine, otherwise a near fine copy. The DJ is in very good condition with a scrape to the middle sof the spine and top end spine chipping. A book club edition. "The bestselling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. In "Bonk," Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place. 16 illustrations. The bestselling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. In "Bonk," Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place." 16 illustrations. . ; Book Club… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0195143264 . Blue hard boards with a brown cloth spine, gilt titles to the spine. This copy is in very good condition, tightly bound, there is underlining up to page 120, after that, the rest of the book is unmarked. Previous owner's name on the front free end paper. The DJ is unclipped, glossy with light edgewear and scuffing. "About this title: Shermer, editor of Skeptic Magazine, explores the line where hard science and pseudo-science overlap. In doing so he talks about Carl Sagan, Darwin, and superstring theory. "; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 360 pages .

California: Oxford University Press, USA. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Trade Paperback. 0195157982 . Nice Trade paperback with a tiny bit of edgewear, very clean, & bright with a solid binding. "The editor-in-chief of "Skeptic" magazine and author of the bestselling "Why People Believe Weird Things" takes readers to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory) , borderland science (superstring theory) , and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. 20 halftones. 36 line illustrations. "; Diagrams; 0.94 x 9.06 x 6.06 Inches; 360 pages .

Bantam. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0553077724 . Blue hardcover with blue cloth spine covering. In Fine condition with very light spine end bumping. A clean, bright interior with a solid binding. The DJ is unclipped with moderate cover wear. Near Fine also. "For the millions of readers of the international bestseller A Brief History of Time, this companion volume sheds more light on Stephen Hawking and his major scientific theories. Based on an exciting new documentary film. 100 photographs, diagrams and computerized graphics. "; B&W Illustrations; 10.20 X 8.10 X 1 inches; Box 44 .

Norwalk, Conneticut: Easton Press. As New. 1991. Hardcover. This is a First Edition, signed book. In As New condition with the previous owner's blind stamp on the titles page. Genuine green leather gilt illustrations to the cover and spine. Raised bands to the spine. Linen end papers and a gold cloth ribbon book marker. "A collection of thirty-five essays--representing the best of the column "This View of Life" from "Natural History" magazine--focuses on the themes of evolution and of the innumerable oddities of nature." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 540 pages; Signed by Author .

Toronto, Ont: Viking. Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0670849871 . Blue hard boards with a colorful unclipped dust jacket, only mark on the book is the previous owner's blind stamp on the front free end-paper. The DJ has a almost invisible nick on the front cover. "From out of body experiences to the importance of dreaming, from the intracacies of memory to the communication between the hemispheres of the brain, from conscious-ness to gender differences." This book touches on them all. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 257 pages .

New York: McGraw Hill. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. Brown hard boards, green lettering on the cover, gilt lettering pannelled on the spine. Corners and spine ends have been bumped, scuffing to the covers. A 'Department of National Defence Ottawa' stamp on the front paste down and 'cancelled' stamped on the front free end-paper. A clean interior, unmarked, and a solid binding. Written by the Professor and the Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ; International Chemical Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages .

London, England: Fourth Estate. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1857027213 . Burgundy hard covers / gilt titles to the spine. In Fine condition, tightly bound and unmarked with light spine end bumping. The first free end paper has a small piece clipped from the right had corner. The DJ is unlcipped and in Very Good++ condition with light cover scuffing and edgewear. "Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been entirely straightforward. The year 2000 is alternatively the year 2544 (Buddhist) , 6236 (Ancient Egyptian) , 5761 (Jewish) or simply the Year of the Dragon (Chinese). The story of the creation of the Western calendar, which is related in this book, is a story of emperors and popes, mathematicians and monks, and the growth of scientific calculation to the point where, bizarrely, our measurement of time by atomic pulses is now more accurate than time itself: the Earth is an elderly lady and slightly eccentric -… Read More

Fine. 2006. Spiral bound. A spiral bound copy in Fine condition, tightly bound with an unmarked text. "underwriting submisision" ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 100 pages .

Toronto, Ont: Copp Clark Pitman. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1979. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 0773020047 . Yellow soft covers with an ariel photo on the cover. The previous owner's name on the title page, otherwise an unmarked interior and tightly bound. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages .

Methuen. Very Good+. 1971. Trade Paperback. 0416071104 . Trade paperback in very good condition. Tightly bound, unmarked with light discoloration and edgewear to the cover edges. ; The Field of Geography; Maps; 0.5 x 9.2 x 6 Inches; 162 pages .

London, England: Verso. Very Good+ in Poor dust jacket. 1997. Paperback. 1859841295 . Trade aperback in very good+ condition. There is scuffing and edgewear to the covers of this copy, but the interior is tightly bound with a bright, unmarked interior. Black & white charts and illustrations throughout the book. "One of the most dramatic intellectual events of the last decade has been the stunning re-emergence of the catastrophist paradigm in the biological and earth sciences From killer asteroids to emergent viruses, it has become evident that the history of life on earth has been shaped -- far more than previous orthodoxies would allow ...by extreme events and non-linear processes. "; Remainder; 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.25 Inches; 262 pages .

New York: Viking. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. Trade Paperback in Very Good condition, tightly bound with a clean, unmarked interior. Wear to the spine ends and corners with cover edgewear. "This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a limited way, but now that computers can map the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations a new vision of nature is revealed." ; Color / Black & White Illustrations ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 352 pages .

Princeton University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1996. Trade Paperback. 0691026068 . This is a large Trade Paperback, when you look at this book it looks almost perfect, but there is some underlining through the book. "Few lives of great men offer so much interest--and so many mysteries--as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than a hundred years after his death." ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 605 pages .